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DefinitionNumber of pupils from a cohort enrolled in a given grade at a given school year who study in the same grade in the following school year.Data sourceSchool register or school census for data...
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DefinitionPercentage of a cohort of pupils (or student) enrolled in the first grade of a given level or cycle of education in a given school year who are expected to reach successive grades.Data...
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DefinitionThe number of illiterates in a given age-group who are female expressed as a percentage of the total number of illiterates (male and female) in the same age-group in a reference year.Data...
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DefinitionNumber of inbound internationally mobile students minus the corresponding number of outbound internationally mobile students.Data sourceUIS survey of formal education and the joint UNESCO-...
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DefinitionTotal general (local, regional and central) government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers), in millions US$ in nominal or constant value (taking into account...
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DefinitionInternationally mobile students are individuals who have physically crossed an international border between two countries with the objective to participate in educational activities in the...
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DefinitionEducational expenditure in public institutions from all sources of funding disaggregated by type of expenditure (current, capital), or by nature of spending (all staff compensation,...
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DefinitionAge at which students would enter a given programme or level of education assuming they start at the official entrance age for the lowest level of education, study full-time throughout and...