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Base Theme
| PISA 2022 Results (Volume I): The State of Learning and Equity in Education |
| PISA 2022 Results (Volume II): Learning During - and From - Disruption |
| PISA 2022 Results (Volume III): Creative Minds, Creative Schools |
| PISA 2018 Results (Volume IV): Are Students Smart About Money? |
| PISA 2018 Results (Volume VI): Are Students Ready to Thrive in an Interconnected World? |
| PISA 2018: Are Students Ready To Take On Environmental Challenges? |
| Education at a Glance 2024 (EAG 2024): Highlights |
| EAG 2024, Chapter A: The output of educational institutions and the impact of learning |
| EAG 2024, Chapter B: Access to education, participation and progression |
| EAG 2024, Chapter C: Financial resources invested in education |
| EAG 2024, Chapter D: Teachers, learning environment and organisation of schools |
| Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) |
| TALIS 2018: Highlight indicators |
| TALIS 2018 (Volume I): Teachers and School Leaders as Lifelong Learners |
| TALIS 2018 (Volume II): Teachers and School Leaders as Valued Professionals |
| TALIS 2018 (results for primary and upper secondary) |
| TALIS 2018: Starting Strong Survey |
| Skills |
| Low performers |
| Computers, education & skills |
| Collaborative Problem Solving |
| Access & participation |
| Student mobility |
| Education attainment |
| Education system & governance |
| Financing education |
| Learning environment |
| Students' well-being |
| Equity |
| Gender |
| Digital divide |
| Special needs |
| Socio-economic status |
| Migrant background |
| Economic & social outcomes |
| Teachers & educators |
| Education leadership |
| Evaluation & quality assurance |
| Future of education and skills |
| Research & innovation |
| Early childhood education & care |
| Vocational education & training (VET) |
| Tertiary education |
| Impact of COVID-19 in education |
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Level
| Not in education |
| Early childhood education and care |
| Non-educational programmes (early childhood) |
| Pre-primary |
| Pre-primary and primary |
| Early childhood and primary |
| Pre-primary to tertiary education |
| Primary |
| Primary and lower secondary |
| Primary and secondary |
| Primary to tertiary |
| Primary, secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education |
| Lower secondary |
| Lower secondary, general |
| Lower secondary, vocational |
| Below upper secondary |
| Lower secondary to post-secondary non-tertiary, general programmes |
| Lower secondary to post-secondary non-tertiary, vocational programmes |
| Upper secondary |
| Upper secondary, general |
| Upper secondary general education, sufficient for partial level completion, without direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary general education, sufficient for level completion, without direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary general education, sufficient for level completion, with direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary, vocational |
| Upper secondary vocational education, sufficient for partial level completion, without direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary vocational education, sufficient for level completion, without direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary vocational education, sufficient for level completion, with direct access to tertiary education |
| Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary |
| Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary, general |
| Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary, vocational |
| Upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary, orientation not specified |
| Upper secondary vocational education, school and work-based programmes |
| At least upper secondary |
| Secondary |
| Secondary, general |
| Secondary, vocational |
| Post-secondary non-tertiary |
| Post-secondary non-tertiary, general |
| Post-secondary non-tertiary, vocational |
| Post-secondary non-tertiary vocational education, sufficient for level completion, without direct access to tertiary education |
| Post-secondary non-tertiary vocational education, sufficient for level completion, with direct access to tertiary education |
| Short-cycle tertiary education |
| Short-cycle tertiary education, general |
| Short-cycle tertiary education, vocational |
| Bachelor's or equivalent level |
| Bachelor's or equivalent level, academic |
| Bachelor's or equivalent level, professional |
| Short-cycle tertiary and Bachelor's |
| Bachelor's and Master's or equivalent levels |
| Total tertiary excluding doctoral level |
| Bachelor's to doctorate |
| Master's or equivalent level |
| Master’s or equivalent academic level, long first degree |
| Master's or equivalent level, academic |
| Master's or equivalent level, professional |
| Master's to doctorate |
| Doctoral or equivalent level |
| Total tertiary |
| Lower secondary to tertiary, general programmes |
| Lower secondary to tertiary, vocational programmes |
| Total tertiary education, academic programmes |
| Total tertiary education, professional programmes |
| All levels of education |
| All levels of education + not allocated by level |
| Not allocated by level of education |
| Master's long first degree (LFD) degree |
Age Group
| Early childhood |
| Basic school ages |
| Compulsory school ages |
| 15 year-olds |
| 15-19 year-olds |
| Youths |
| Young adults |
| Adults |
| All ages and age unknown |
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Education system & governance
Most students from primary through tertiary education are enrolled in public institutions. More than 80% of students in primary and secondary education and 70% of students in tertiary education were enrolled in public institutions, on average across the OECD. An average of 34% of all decisions are taken at the school level, about 34% were made centrally (i.e. at the central or state level), some 13% were made at the local level and about 5% of the decisions were made at the regional or sub-regional levels. However, 14% of the decisions are taken by multiple levels. In this context of multi-level and multi-actor governance, a key political and administrative challenge is decentralisation processes that will lead to the emergence of increasingly autonomous and powerful local actors. Giving local actors significant planning responsibilities is expected to improve the school networks' adaptation to local conditions and the needs of local communities. The organisation and structure of the system of compulsory education varies across OECD countries. On average, 49% of the students started primary school at age 6, while another 25% started at age 7, and 22% started before they were 6 years old. The ending age of compulsory education was 16 or 17 in most OECD countries. The number of programmes and school types available to students vary from one to five or more options. An average of 86.5% of 15-year-old students were enrolled in a programme with a general curriculum and 12.5% were enrolled in a programme with a pre-vocational or vocational curriculum. At pre-primary level, leaders engage frequently with parents or guardians through informal communication, especially in Chile, Iceland, Japan, Norway and Denmark (with low response rates). In Chile and Japan, formal communication is also frequent. Students across the OECD receive an average of 7 634 hours of compulsory instruction during their primary and lower secondary education, ranging from 5 245 hours in Poland to double that in Australia (11 000 hours).
National, or central, examinations are standardised tests with formal consequence on students' progression through school or certification. More than three-quarters of the OECD countries have national, or central, examinations in the final years of upper secondary education (in general programmes). A large majority of these countries use these examinations to grant students access to tertiary education.
| Education policies: Organisation and Governance | Education at a Glance 2023: OECD Indicators | Education at a Glance 2019 | Education at a Glance 2018 | Annexes from Education at a Glance | PISA 2015 Results (Volume II): Policies and Practices for Successful Schools | Results from the Starting Strong Survey 2018 | Responsive School Systems: Connecting Facilities, Sectors and Programmes for Student Success | Starting Strong V |
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| Australia |
| Austria |
| Belgium |
| Belgium (Flanders) |
| Belgium (French) |
| Belgium (excl. Flemish) |
| Canada |
| Alberta (Canada) |
| Canadian provinces |
| Chile |
| Colombia |
| Costa Rica |
| Czechia |
| Denmark |
| Estonia |
| Finland |
| France |
| Germany |
| Greece |
| Hungary |
| Iceland |
| Ireland |
| Israel |
| Italy |
| Japan |
| Korea |
| Latvia |
| Lithuania |
| Luxembourg |
| Mexico |
| Netherlands |
| New Zealand |
| Norway |
| Poland |
| Portugal |
| Slovak Republic |
| Slovenia |
| Spain |
| Sweden |
| Switzerland |
| Türkiye |
| United Kingdom |
| England (UK) |
| Northern Ireland (UK) |
| United States |
| OECD average |
Non-OECD Countries
| G20 average |
| TALIS average |
| TALIS avg. primary education |
| TALIS avg. upper secondary education |
| Albania |
| Algeria |
| Argentina |
| Buenos Aires (Argentina) |
| Baku (Azerbaijan) |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| Brazil |
| Brunei Darussalam |
| Bulgaria |
| Cambodia |
| China |
| B-S-J-Z (China) |
| Hong Kong (China) |
| Macao (China) |
| Shanghai (China) |
| Chinese Taipei |
| Croatia |
| Dominican Republic |
| Ecuador |
| Egypt |
| El Salvador |
| Georgia |
| Guatemala |
| India |
| Indonesia |
| Jamaica |
| Jordan |
| Kazakhstan |
| Kyrgyz Republic |
| Kosovo |
| Lebanon |
| North Macedonia |
| Malaysia |
| Malta |
| Moldova |
| Mongolia |
| Montenegro |
| Morocco |
| Palestinian Authority |
| Panama |
| Paraguay |
| Peru |
| Philippines |
| Qatar |
| Romania |
| Saudi Arabia |
| Serbia |
| Singapore |
| South Africa |
| Tajikistan |
| Thailand |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
| Tunisia |
| United Arab Emirates |
| Abu Dhabi (UAE) |
| Ukraine |
| Uruguay |
| Uzbekistan |
| Viet Nam |
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Note: These values should be interpreted with care since they are influenced
by countries' specific contexts and trade-offs. In education, there is often no simple
most- or least-efficient model. For instance, the share of private expenditure in
education must be read against other measures designed to mitigate inequities,
such as loans and grants; longer learning time is an opportunity to convey
more and better content to students, but may hinder investments in other important
areas. If you want further information on the nature of different variables, please
take the time to read the analysis and contextual information, available at the website
for each publication.
The OECD average includes only OECD countries which are listed here: http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/
Reference years displayed in the Education GPS correspond to the most common year of reference among countries for which data is available on each variable. Data for the latest available year is preferred and some countries may have provided data refering to a more recent or late year. To know more about possible exceptions on data please click on the "Download Indicator" link on each variable. When a year of reference corresponds to a school year encompassing two years, the reference reads as follows: 2018 for school year 2017/2018.
*TALIS averages are based on all countries participating in the TALIS survey, including partner countries and economies. This explains the difference between the OECD average and the TALIS average. Data from the TALIS survey and Education at a Glance (EAG) may differ. See Annex E of the TALIS technical report and Annex 3 of EAG 2021 for more details about the data collections.
B-S-J-Z (China) refers to the four PISA-participating provinces/municipalities of the People's Republic of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
For additional notes, please refer to annexes in the list of links below the introductory text.
The OECD average includes only OECD countries which are listed here: http://www.oecd.org/about/membersandpartners/
Reference years displayed in the Education GPS correspond to the most common year of reference among countries for which data is available on each variable. Data for the latest available year is preferred and some countries may have provided data refering to a more recent or late year. To know more about possible exceptions on data please click on the "Download Indicator" link on each variable. When a year of reference corresponds to a school year encompassing two years, the reference reads as follows: 2018 for school year 2017/2018.
*TALIS averages are based on all countries participating in the TALIS survey, including partner countries and economies. This explains the difference between the OECD average and the TALIS average. Data from the TALIS survey and Education at a Glance (EAG) may differ. See Annex E of the TALIS technical report and Annex 3 of EAG 2021 for more details about the data collections.
B-S-J-Z (China) refers to the four PISA-participating provinces/municipalities of the People's Republic of China: Beijing, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
For additional notes, please refer to annexes in the list of links below the introductory text.