Average Years of Tertiary Schooling for Population Over Age 15

World Bank data provides the average years of tertiary education completed by the population aged 15 and older. The dataset is produced by the Education Statistics organization. The temporal coverage and update frequency are not specified.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the 'average years of tertiary schooling' metric over time for specific countries.
• Compare the 'average years of tertiary schooling' indicator across different nations or regions.
• Model the relationship between the 'average years of tertiary schooling' and other socioeconomic development indicators.
• Benchmark national tertiary education attainment against global or regional averages using this standardized metric.

Strengths

• Indicator is a standardized metric for cross-country comparison of human capital.
• Data is sourced from the authoritative World Bank and Education Statistics organization.

Limitations

• The exact number of countries, years of coverage, and row count are unknown.
• Underlying source data and calculation methodology details are not provided in the description.

Provenance

Source

World Bank, Education Statistics

Collection Method

Aggregated national statistics on educational attainment.

Geography

Global, country-level