Australia vs Barbados: Share of the population with at least some formal education

Australia

99.1%

in 2020

Barbados

99.3%

in 2020

Australia rank

22nd

Barbados rank

20th

Share of the population with at least some formal education over time

Barbados currently reports 99.3% against 99.1% in Australia, a difference of 0.2%.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 31 shared years of data; in 1870 it was Australia ahead.

Australia ranks 22nd and Barbados ranks 20th of 111 countries.

Indicator: Share of the population with at least some formal education
Unit: %
Source: Barro and Lee (2015); Lee and Lee (2016) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage: 111 places, 3,441 data points, 1870–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Based on the population aged 15 years and older.