EducationLiteracy: Education and Literacy

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Education and Literacy

Description

Education spending and literacy rates for countries.

Format

A data frame with 193 observations on the following 4 variables.

Country

Name of country

Code

Three-letter code for country

Education

Education spending (as a percentage of GDP)

Literacy

Literacy rate

Details

For each country, we have public spending on education (as a percentage of GDP) and literacy rate (percentage of the adult population who can read and write).
** Updated for 4e (an earlier versions are at EducationLiteracy2e and EducationLiteracy2e). **

Source

Most recent data (as of 2024) for each country obtained from https://www.worldbank.org/ext/en/home.

Lock5Data documentation built on Jan. 8, 2026, 9:09 a.m.