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RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I'm trying to find statistics on the number of people in different countries that continue their education after high school. For some reason I've had a lot of trouble finding what I need. I want to compare the numbers for Korea against Canada and the US. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

I can't find the page, but I saw some statistics a few months ago, and Korea and Canada are almost identical for the percentage of people that go on to a post-secondary education. Korea had a slightly higher percentile, but it was 3rd and 4th place or 4th and 5th place for the world. I will try to find the site.

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

Actually since the first post I found a very vague reference that Korea and Canada and Japan are slightly over 50%, which surprised me quite a bit. I'd still like to find the actual statistics of course.

Paji eh Wong · Joined: 03 Jun 2003

Check out Nationmaster.

I looked it up a while ago, and Canada was the #1 country listed. Korea would be well higher if they had participated.

ajgeddes · Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Location: Yongsan

jajdude · Joined: 18 Jan 2003

On that Nationmaster site there's a statistics page called "School Life Expectancy"

The top 20 lists only 5 non-European countries: US, Canada, Ireland, Australia (3) and New Zealand (5).

Norway is #1 and Finland #2. The UK is #4.

South Korea is 21, and Japan 25.

Kind of interesting.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_sch_lif_exp_tot-education-school-life-expectancy-total

Education Spending (% of GDP) is surprising. Korea # 79 with 4.2%?
I guess it doesn't count hagwons and private tutors.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_edu_spe-education-spending-of-gdp