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Education

21 World Bank indicators, compared across Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sri Lanka. Each tile carries the annual series and the latest known value for each country, sorted from highest to lowest. Hover a chart to read a given year, open a tile for the full page.

Indicators published
21of 21 for these countries
Countries compared
8Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Sri Lanka
Period covered
1970 - 2025the widest in this category
Annual values
3,464on this page, all series

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21 indicators

Education / gov. budgetSE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS · %
19812024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Netherlands11.97%2022
  • China11.91%2023
  • United States11.29%2021
  • Germany10.68%2022
  • Spain9.88%2022
  • Italy7.41%2022
  • Sri Lanka7.22%2024
  • South Sudan0%2024
Primary enrollmentSE.PRM.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Netherlands104.16%2023
  • Italy103.57%2023
  • Spain102.94%2024
  • Germany102.64%2024
  • China99.64%2024
  • South Sudan98.44%2024
  • United States96.97%2022
  • Sri Lanka91.45%2023
Secondary enrollmentSE.SEC.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Netherlands137.51%2023
  • South Sudan122.12%2024
  • Spain118.54%2024
  • Italy100.68%2023
  • Germany100.24%2024
  • United States97.47%2022
  • China92.26%2012
  • Sri Lanka87.95%2023
Tertiary enrollmentSE.TER.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Spain93.77%2024
  • Netherlands86.59%2023
  • United States79.36%2022
  • China76.88%2024
  • Germany76.71%2024
  • Italy75.95%2023
  • Sri Lanka20.74%2023
Primary completionSE.PRM.CMPT.ZS · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China103.46%2010
  • Spain98.51%2024
  • Italy97.36%2023
  • Germany96.84%2024
  • United States95.74%2022
  • Sri Lanka94.54%2023
  • South Sudan28.66%2011
Primary repetition rateSE.PRM.REPT.ZS · %
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan11.06%2011
  • Spain2.5%2017
  • Netherlands2.18%1985
  • United States1.61%2017
  • Sri Lanka0.99%2017
  • Germany0.44%2017
  • Italy0.33%2017
  • China0.01%2018
Pre-primary enrollmentSE.PRE.ENRR · %
19712021

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Germany108.03%2020
  • Spain101.83%2020
  • China93.07%2021
  • Italy92.66%2020
  • Netherlands91.95%2020
  • United States72.4%2020
  • Sri Lanka71.84%2020
  • South Sudan11.59%2018
Net primary enrollmentSE.PRM.NENR · %
19712018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Sri Lanka99.11%2018
  • Netherlands98.65%2017
  • Spain97.27%2017
  • Italy95.66%2017
  • United States94.63%2017
  • Germany90.14%2017
  • China89.35%1997
  • South Sudan35.21%2015
Net secondary enrollmentSE.SEC.NENR · %
19712018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Spain96.88%2017
  • Italy94.66%2017
  • Netherlands93.16%2017
  • United States92.45%2017
  • Sri Lanka91.04%2018
  • Germany85.3%2017
  • South Sudan5.48%2015
Pupil-teacher ratio (prim.)SE.PRM.ENRL.TC.ZS
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan46.752015
  • Sri Lanka21.742018
  • China16.432018
  • United States14.22017
  • Spain13.132017
  • Germany12.32017
  • Netherlands11.812017
  • Italy11.482017
Pupil-teacher ratio (sec.)SE.SEC.ENRL.TC.ZS
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan27.472015
  • Sri Lanka17.532018
  • United States14.622017
  • Netherlands14.522017
  • China13.262018
  • Germany11.972017
  • Spain11.572017
  • Italy9.982017
Children out of schoolSE.PRM.UNER
19772024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China8.25 m1997
  • South Sudan1.2 m2024
  • United States965,8532022
  • Sri Lanka157,4992023
  • Italy52,1172023
  • Spain34,0502024
  • Germany8,8202024
  • Netherlands5,6982023
Compulsory educationSE.COM.DURS · yrs
19972025

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Germany13 yrs2025
  • Netherlands13 yrs2025
  • Italy12 yrs2025
  • United States12 yrs2025
  • Sri Lanka11 yrs2025
  • Spain10 yrs2025
  • China9 yrs2025
  • South Sudan8 yrs2025
Private primary shareSE.PRM.PRIV.ZS · %
19712024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan46.87%2024
  • Spain31.71%2024
  • United States9.72%2023
  • China6.37%2024
  • Italy6.1%2023
  • Germany5.13%2024
  • Sri Lanka3.19%2020
  • Netherlands0.32%2022
Gender parity indexSE.ENR.PRSC.FM.ZS
19712021

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Sri Lanka1.022018
  • Spain1.022020
  • China1.012021
  • Netherlands1.012020
  • Italy0.992020
  • United States0.992020
  • Germany0.972020
  • South Sudan0.692015

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