Average Tertiary Schooling Years for Adults Aged 25-29

Average years of tertiary schooling completed among the population aged 25-29. The data is produced by the Barro-Lee project and disseminated by the World Bank's Education Statistics team. It provides a standardized metric for comparing educational attainment across countries and time.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the 'average years of tertiary schooling' metric over time for specific countries.
• Compare tertiary education attainment levels across different nations using the standardized indicator.
• Correlate the 'average years' metric with other country-level economic or social development indicators.
• Model the growth rate of tertiary education completion within the 25-29 age cohort for demographic forecasting.

Strengths

• Indicator provides a standardized, comparable measure of educational output across countries.
• Data is curated and disseminated by the World Bank, a major international statistical organization.

Limitations

• Specific row count, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown from the provided input.
• The dataset is limited to a single, aggregated metric without underlying individual-level or institutional data.

Provenance

Source

World Bank (Education Statistics), based on the Barro-Lee educational attainment dataset.

Collection Method

Calculated from national census and survey data to estimate average years of education completed.

Geography

Likely covers multiple countries, but specific coverage is unknown.