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Table C: Attainment Rates (%, population over 25)
		Primary			Secondary								Average Years of Schooling
		Attained			Attained			Tertiary Attained					in Population over 25
		1965	1990		1965	1990		1965	1975	1985	1990	1995		1965	1990
World Bank		PRI65	PRI90		SEC65	SEC90		HIGH65	HIGH75	HIGH85	HIGH90	R-B 95		BL96	BL96
Country Name		Col AV	Col BP		Col AW	Col BQ		Col AX	Col BF	Col BN	Col BR	col DD		col CL	Col CM
Afghanistan		4	9		3	3		3	2	3	2	2		0.9	1.0
Albania												7
Algeria		10	32		2	9		0	1	2	4	5		0.6	2.8
American Samoa
Andorra
Angola												1
Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina		72	57		12	25		4	6	8	12	15		5.2	7.8
Armenia												23
Aruba
Australia		37	27		57	48		5	21	22	23	24		8.9	10.1
Austria		86	43		8	47		3	4	6	8	12		4.0	7.4
Azerbaijan												18
Bahamas, The
Bahrain		9	26		6	25		3	3	3	10	11		1.4	4.6
Bangladesh		11	23		6	14		1	1	2	2	3		0.9	2.2
Barbados		81	48		18	42		1	2	6	8	10		5.4	8.2
Belarus												24
Belgium		64	48		29	37		5	7	11	13	16		7.8	8.8
Belize												14
Benin			13		1	5		0	0	1	1	2			1.3
Bermuda
Bhutan
Bolivia		22	39		26	11		4	5	8	9	12		4.2	4.1
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Botswana		25	41		2	7		0	1	1	1	2		1.3	2.6
Brazil		44	66		11	5		2	4	6	7	8		2.8	3.6
Brunei
Bulgaria		63	44		15	36		5	7	9	15	17		6.4	9.3
Burkina Faso												0
Burundi												1
Cambodia
Cameroon		20	38		5	7		0	0	1	1	2		1.3	2.3
Canada		47	16		36	62		14	31	19	21	29		7.8	10.3
Cape Verde
Cayman Islands
Central African Republic		5	22		2	4		0	0	0	1	1		0.4	1.3
Chad												1
Channel Islands
Chile		57	57		21	25		2	5	8	10	12		4.7	6.2
China			34			34		1	1	1	2	2			5.2
Colombia		49	52		10	17		2	3	6	7	9		2.8	4.3
Comoros												0
Congo, Dem. Rep.		17	32		1	10		0	0	1	1	1		0.7	2.2
Congo, Rep.			21		13	23		3	2	3	4	4			3.9
Costa Rica		69	62		8	11		3	6	12	14	16		3.8	5.4
Cote d'Ivoire												8
Croatia												8
Cuba		61	57		5	27		2	3	7	10	12		3.7	6.6
Cyprus		59	41		15	40		1	9	14	13	13		4.3	7.8
Czech Republic												9
Denmark		50	39		34	42		16	16	19	20	21		10.0	11.2
Djibouti												0
Dominica
Dominican Republic		48	36		3	11		1	3	6	9	11		2.2	3.8
Ecuador		52	49		7	9		2	3	14	18	18		2.9	5.6
Egypt, Arab Rep.			19			16		2	3	5	8	9			3.6
El Salvador		33	54		4	5		1	2	3	6	8		1.7	3.4
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia												15
Ethiopia												1
Faeroe Islands
Fiji		64	54		8	33		5	3	5	4	6		4.7	7.5
Finland		84	49		11	35		5	7	14	15	19		7.7	9.8
France		88	58		10	28		3	5	11	13	16		4.8	6.9
French Guiana
French Polynesia
Gabon												3
Gambia, The			6		3	6		0	0	0	0				0.9
Georgia												23
Germany		81	65		16	22		2	6	8	10	15		7.9	8.8
Ghana		14	24		2	17		1	1	1	1	1		0.8	2.8
Greece		69	57		10	29		3	5	9	9	11		5.0	7.7
Greenland
Grenada
Guadeloupe
Guam
Guatemala		27	37		4	6		1	1	4	5	5		1.4	2.6
Guinea												2
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana		82	57		5	30		0	1	2	2	3		3.7	5.4
Haiti		6	28		4	10		0	0	1	1	1		0.7	2.2
Honduras		34	52		3	11		1	1	3	5	6		1.7	3.7
Hong Kong, China		40	30		18	43		5	4	8	11	14		4.9	8.4
Hungary		86	63		8	26		4	6	8	10	11		6.9	8.4
Iceland		82	53		13	35		4	6	9	11	13		5.9	8.0
India		21	20		3	14		0	2	4	5	5		1.5	3.6
Indonesia		25	54		2	12		0	1	1	2	4		1.3	3.9
Iran, Islamic Rep.		7	18		3	19		1	2	3	3	5		0.8	3.3
Iraq		3	22		2	13		1	2	5	7	8		0.4	3.1
Ireland		65	40		27	44		5	6	10	12	14		6.5	8.2
Isle of Man
Israel		43	28		27	34		10	16	24	26	27		6.8	9.0
Italy		72	44		14	32		3	4	7	9	12		4.8	6.2
Jamaica		78	64		5	29		1	2	3	3	4		2.5	4.5
Japan		54	34		37	45		7	7	16	21	22		7.1	9.2
Jordan		16	17		8	18		1	1	11	17	19		1.7	5.2
Kazakhstan												16
Kenya		20	45		2	7		0	1	1	1	1		1.2	2.8
Kiribati
Korea, Dem. Rep.
Korea, Rep.		35	22		18	54		4	7	12	13	19		4.4	9.3
Kuwait		36	6		12	34		3	7	13	13	13		2.7	5.7
Kyrgyz Republic												15
Lao PDR												1
Latvia												15
Lebanon												21
Lesotho		57	59		2	6		0	0	1	1	1		2.7	3.3
Liberia		8	17		2	11		1	2	2	2	2		0.6	1.9
Libya		15	27		1	20		0	1	3	4	7		0.6	3.9
Liechtenstein
Lithuania												15
Luxembourg
Macao												9
Macedonia, FYR												16
Madagascar												2
Malawi		32	39		0	4		0	0	0	0	1		1.7	2.4
Malaysia		39	45		8	27		1	2	2	3	4		2.7	5.6
Maldives
Mali		3	8		0	3		0	0	0	0	1		0.2	0.8
Malta		58	44		17	31		2	3	3	4	5		5.1	6.6
Marshall Islands
Martinique
Mauritania												2
Mauritius		47	49		8	31		1	2	3	2	2		2.8	5.2
Mayotte
Mexico		47	49		4	23		2	3	7	9	10		2.5	5.9
Micronesia, Fed. Sts.
Moldova												14
Monaco
Mongolia												10
Morocco												6
Mozambique		8	26		1	1		0	0	0	0	0		0.3	0.7
Myanmar		11	32		8	14		1	0	2	3	3		0.9	2.2
Namibia
Nepal		0	9		1	5		0	0	2	2	3		0.1	1.0
Netherlands		82	34		14	46		3	9	14	16	19		5.6	8.6
Netherlands Antilles
New Caledonia
New Zealand		40	37		54	24		5	20	30	39	39		9.4	11.2
Nicaragua		33	44		3	6		4	5	8	8	8		2.0	3.3
Niger		4	10		0	1		0	0	0	0	0		0.2	0.6
Nigeria												2
Northern Mariana Islands
Norway		77	50		16	32		2	9	14	15	19		5.6	7.9
Oman												1
Pakistan		12	10		4	14		0	3	2	3	3		0.9	2.3
Palau
Panama		55	42		15	29		3	5	11	17	18		4.1	7.6
Papua New Guinea		15	24		5	6		0	0	1	1	1		1.0	1.7
Paraguay		67	67		6	14		1	3	5	6	6		3.3	4.7
Peru		45	46		9	17		3	6	12	14	17		3.0	5.5
Philippines		52	54		10	15		8	12	18	22	23		3.9	6.7
Poland		67	43		22	48		4	7	8	8	9		7.1	9.6
Portugal		50	59		3	11		1	2	5	6	8		2.2	3.6
Puerto Rico												34
Qatar												17
Reunion		45			8			1	1	1				2.3
Romania		67	24		16	63		3	5	6	7	8		5.6	9.2
Russian Federation												18
Rwanda			35		2	2		0	0	0	0	0			1.5
Samoa
Sao Tome and Principe
Saudi Arabia												7
Senegal		28	31		2	4		1	1	1	2	2		1.4	1.9
Seychelles
Sierra Leone		4	13		2	5		0	0	1	1	1		0.5	1.3
Singapore		26	35		22	31		1	3	4	5	7		3.5	5.5
Slovak Republic												10
Slovenia												11
Solomon Islands
Somalia
South Africa		27	47		24	23		1	4	2	4	4		3.8	4.8
Spain		64	64		5	21		4	4	7	10	13		3.8	6.3
Sri Lanka		48	46		20	36		0	2	1	2	2		3.6	5.4
St. Kitts and Nevis
St. Lucia
St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Sudan		10	21		1	6		0	0	1	1	1		0.3	1.2
Suriname
Swaziland		21	43		6	11		0	0	1	2	2		1.7	3.5
Sweden		57	35		35	44		8	12	17	18	20		7.7	9.5
Switzerland		69	29		22	52		9	9	12	13	14		6.9	8.9
Syrian Arab Republic		24	35		3	14		1	3	8	10	12		1.3	4.4
Tajikistan												13
Tanzania												0
Thailand		50	65		5	5		1	2	5	8	10		3.1	5.2
Togo		7	23		1	13		0	0	2	2	2		0.4	2.5
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago		75	62		12	29		1	2	3	4	4		4.4	6.3
Tunisia		7	26		3	13		1	1	3	3	4		0.7	3.0
Turkey		33	41		6	12		1	2	4	5	7		2.1	3.4
Turkmenistan												19
Uganda		27	31		2	3		0	0	0	0	1		1.1	1.4
Ukraine												24
United Arab Emirates									6			6
United Kingdom		69	44		27	39		3	11	13	14	16		7.2	8.7
United States		36	9		44	44		18	25	34	45	49		9.3	12.0
Uruguay		70	56		10	27		5	6	8	12	14		4.8	6.7
Uzbekistan												23
Vanuatu
Venezuela		44	55		5	12		2	5	10	12	15		2.4	4.9
Vietnam												3
Virgin Islands (U.S.)
West Bank and Gaza
Yemen, Rep.												2
Yugoslavia, FR (Serb./Mont.)		59	42		8	31		3	6	9	10	11		4.8	7.2
Zambia		32	50		1	12		0	1	1	1	1		1.8	4.1
Zimbabwe		46	56		2	4		0	1	1	2	2		1.6	2.3
World		42	34		15	26		3	5	7	9	10		4.2	5.7
Low & middle income		30	34		6	22		1	2	3	4	6		2.1	4.4
Sub-Saharan Africa		19	33		5	10		0	1	1	1	2		1.4	2.5
East Asia & Pacific		31	38		4	30		1	1	2	3	3		2.0	5.1
South Asia		19	20		3	14		0	2	3	4	4		1.4	3.3
Europe & Central Asia		60	41		14	35		3	5	6	8	16		5.4	7.3
Latin America & Carib.		49	56		9	14		2	4	7	9	11		3.1	4.8
Middle East & N. Africa		9	22		3	16		1	2	4	6	7		0.8	3.4
High income		58	34		28	39		8	13	18	23	26		7.1	9.4
		Sources:  Columns 1 through 7:  Barro and Lee 1996,
		column 8: Bloom and Rivera-Batiz 1999; columns 9 and 10, Barro and Lee 96.