Table 3.
Education background overall and across countries with more than 200 participants.
| Residing Country | 12years + (%) | Uni Degree (%) | PhD (%) | Pop_ Secondary (%) | Pop_ Tertiary (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Countries | 41.5 | 48.6 | 6.4 | – | – |
| Russian Federation | 66.2 | 28.9 | 0.7 | 85.0 | 24.7 |
| Japan | 57.2 | 31.7 | 1.0 | 80.3 | 18.9 |
| Finland | 35.1 | 54.7 | 4.7 | 77.5 | 11.9 |
| Switzerland | 42.5 | 45.4 | 6.9 | 86.6 | 17.9 |
| Spain | 24.7 | 53.9 | 20.7 | 53.3 | 15.0 |
| Colombia | 15.7 | 77.0 | 5.7 | 53.2 | 18.6 |
| Portugal | 33.1 | 42.6 | 23.6 | 43.5 | 3.3 |
| Brazil | 18.8 | 66.1 | 15.2 | 47.4 | 5.6 |
| Honduras | 76.2 | 20.0 | 1.4 | 29.9 | 1.9 |
| Ireland | 46.4 | 48.4 | 4.7 | 70.8 | 26.8 |
| Norway | 27.9 | 61.2 | 8.2 | 78.7 | 12.2 |
| Czech Republic | 47.9 | 46.0 | 5.8 | 90.7 | 7.6 |
| Slovakia | 39.6 | 48.6 | 8.0 | 87.7 | 8.8 |
| Italy | 44.8 | 45.2 | 6.5 | 52.5 | 6.8 |
| Bulgaria | 42.8 | 50.5 | 6.0 | 77.8 | 13.1 |
| Ecuador | 26.1 | 69.8 | 2.7 | 43.4 | 5.2 |
| Uruguay | 18.4 | 74.3 | 5.9 | 31.5 | 3.5 |
| Guatemala | 28.6 | 65.9 | 4.9 | 24.0 | 0.0 |
| Costa Rica | 18.5 | 78.1 | 1.1 | 40.9 | 14.7 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 41.7 | 52.4 | 2.8 | 88.4 | 9.0 |
| Ukraine | 11.1 | 77.4 | 10.3 | 74.3 | 24.6 |
| Estonia | 40.2 | 56.1 | 1.2 | 85.8 | 18.9 |
| Malaysia | 41.8 | 53.8 | 4.4 | 62.6 | 5.8 |
| Taiwan | 5.4 | 89.1 | 5.4 | – | 8.2 |
| Turkey | 62.0 | 34.5 | 3.0 | 42.2 | 5.3 |
Note that full dataset contains additional categories. Abbreviations: 12years + = percentage of participants that have at least 12 years of education; collapsed across 12 years and some university. Uni_Degree = percentage of participants who have bachelor’s or master’s degrees. PhD = percentage of participants who have PhD. Pop_Secondary (%) = population equivalent of proportion of population aged 25 + who have completed at least upper secondary education; reflects 2001–2021 data sourced from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (uis.unesco.org) as of September 2021 and reported by The World Bank: Educational attainment, at least completed upper secondary, population 25 + , total (%) (cumulative), under Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 4.0 (https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/public-licenses#cc-by)41. Pop_Tertiary (%) = population equivalent of percentage of population aged 15 + who have completed tertiary education; reflects 2010 data sourced from Barro-Lee Data (1950–2010), http://www.barrolee.com/, updated September 202142.