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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. This article needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. (March 2022) World map of countries shaded according to the literacy rate for all people aged 15 and over This is a list of countries by literacy rate. The global ...
In 2012, the UK's total fertility rate (TFR) was 1.92 children per woman, [51] below the replacement rate, which in the UK is 2.075. [52] In 2001, the TFR was at a record low of 1.63, but it then increased every year until it reached a peak of 1.96 in 2008, before decreasing again. [51] In 2012 and 2013, England and Wales's TFR decreased to 1.85.
Average male height Average female height Stature ratio (male to female) Sample population / age range Share of pop. over 18 ... 2024 [56] Dinaric Alps: 184.6 cm ...
The average British student scored 503.7, compared with the OECD average of 493. [8] In 2014, the country spent 6.6% of its GDP on all levels of education – 1.4 percentage points above the OECD average of 5.2%. [1] In 2017, 45.7% of British people aged 25 to 64 had attended some form of post-secondary education.
As of 2021, the average retirement age in the UK was just over 65 for men and 64 for women. As in the U.S., this average age has increased since the 1990s — but not quite as dramatically.
Youth literacy rate is the percentage of literates in the age group 15–24. UNESCO updates this data every year. The table below contains the data published for the year 2015 by UNESCO . [1] * indicates "Literacy in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" or "Education in COUNTRY or TERRITORY" links.
Statistics for June 2010 show that there are 926,000 young people under the age of 25 who are unemployed which equates to an unemployment rate of 19.6% among young people. [14] This is the highest youth unemployment rate in 17 years. [15] In November 2011 youth unemployment hit 1.02 million, [16] but had fallen to 767,000 by August 2014. [17]
The value is the average of three statistics: basic literacy rate , infant mortality, and life expectancy at age one, all equally weighted on a 1 to 100 scale. It was developed for the Overseas Development Council in the mid-1970s by M.D Morris, as one of a number of measures created due to dissatisfaction with the use of GNP as an indicator of ...