SCHOOLING AROUND THE WORLD
QUICK FACTS
School Timings Australia
Brazil
8:00 am - 2:00 pm
7:45 am - 1:45 pm
China
Chile
8:10 am - 2:50 pm
8:10 am - 2:30 pm
Canada
Denmark
8:15 am - 2:15 pm
7:30 am - 1:30 pm
England
France
9:00 am - 3:15 pm
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Finland
Germany
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
1 By 2025, there will 262 million students in higher education 2 8 million students will travel abroad to study
1.29 billion (2014)
world’s population are students
1 in 3
1 in 5
Students on Earth
Iceland
India
8:30 am - 5:30 pm
8:00 am - 5:30 pm
Japan
Kenya
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
8:30 am - 6:30 pm
New Zealand
North Korea
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
8:15 am - 8:15 pm
UAE
United States
7:30 am - 2:00 pm
8:00 am - 3:00 pm
17%
Adults are expected to complete university before they are 30.
Adults in the developing world.
31 million primary school students worldwide dropped out of school
Around the world, 59 million children are being denied an education. 65 million adolescents don't have access to secondary school.
75 million children have disrupted their education due to conflict and natural disasters
Gender Gap Boys
Girls
Boys are more likely to repeat grades or drop out
53% of the world’s out-of-school children are girls
10 million boys will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school
2/3 of the illiterate population are women.
Nearly 15 million girls of primary school age will never have the opportunity to learn to read and write in primary school.
World Facts Children in Finland don’t start school at ages 6/7 but rank 1st in Science and Maths.
In the Philippines, significantly more girls than boys attend school.
There is a large gap in literacy rates between boys (88%) and girls (74%) in India.
Russia has a 97% enrolment rate.
Only 31% of adults in Australia have Bachelor’s Degrees.
At age 18, students in Germany have the option of becoming an apprentice in a career they would like to pursue.
28% of Afghanistan's population is literate 12%
28%
and only 12% of women can read.
774 million people in the world are illiterate. 3 countries have 1 million girls out of school
5.5 million
3 million
1 million
Nigeria
Pakistan
Ethiopia
In most developing countries, public school is not free. The costs of books, uniforms, and teachers’ salaries are borne by the students’ families.
The African continent has areas with less than 50% literacy among children ages 18 and under.
In the Sub-Saharan region, 11.07 million children leave school before completing their primary education.
South America and Europe have youth literacy rates ranging from 90-100%
Sources:
https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/9-facts-about-education/ https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-education-around-world https://acei-global.blog/2014/03/06/15-facts-on-education-in-developing-countries/ https://ei.britishcouncil.org/news/ten-fast-facts-about-united-arab-emirates http://data.uis.unesco.org/