List of countries by women's average years in school

This is a list of countries by the average number of years of school attended by women between 25 and 34 years old, including primary, secondary and tertiary education published by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in 2010.^[1]

International rankings

The list is incomplete and only includes countries with average years in school of 12 years or greater.

Rank	Country or territory	Average years in school
1	Canada	15.0
2	Norway	14.9
3	South Korea	14.6
4	Sweden	13.9
5	United States	13.9
6	Japan	13.9
7	Czech Republic	13.8
7	Israel	13.8
7	Russia	13.8
10	New Zealand	13.6
10	United Kingdom	13.6
12	Belgium	13.4
12	Denmark	13.4
12	Finland	13.4
15	Slovakia	13.3
15	Ukraine	13.3
17	Bulgaria	13.2
17	Ireland	13.2
17	Lithuania	13.2
20	Georgia	13.1
20	Poland	13.1
20	Romania	13.1
23	Belarus	13.0
23	Latvia	13.0
23	Switzerland	13.0
26	Greece	12.9
26	Slovenia	12.9
27	Moldova	12.8
28	Germany	12.7
30	Hungary	12.6
30	Netherlands	12.6
30	United Arab Emirates	12.6
33	Australia	12.5
33	Estonia	12.5
33	France	12.5
36	Cuba	12.4
36	Italy	12.4
38	Kyrgyzstan	12.3
38	Uzbekistan	12.3
40	Chile	12.2
40	Kazakhstan	12.2
40	Tajikistan	12.2
43	Azerbaijan	12.1
43	Croatia	12.1
43	Kuwait	12.1
45	Austria	12.0

See also

• Female education
• Gender and education
• Project Exploration
• The Girl Effect
• Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East
• Women's college
• Women's education and development
• Women in education in the United States

Historical literature

• Bathsua Makin (1673), An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues
• Anna Julia Cooper (1892), The Higher Education of Women
• Alice Zimmern (1898), Renaissance of Girls' Education in England
• Thomas Woody (1929), A History of Women's Education in the United States, 2 vols.

Contemporary

• Barry Turner (1974), Equality for some: The story of girls' education

References

1. http://www.gapminder.org/data/

External links

• Literary Encyclopedia, Education of Women 1650-1750
• Education of Girls: Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others
• Article on education of women in Poland
• Home Economics Archive: Tradition, Research, History (HEARTH)
  An e-book collection of over 1,000 books on home economics spanning 1850 to 1950, created by Cornell University's Mann Library.
• American Association of University Women
• Essay by Gene Sperling on girls' education