Barro-Lee: Average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives
Maldives: Barro-Lee: Average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total was 2.93 in 2010. ▲ Rising
Barro-Lee: Average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives, 1960–2010
Source: Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.
Analysis
In 2010, barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives stood at 2.93. That is the highest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of up 37.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives peaked at 2.93 in 2010 and was at its lowest, 1.97, in 1960.
That places Maldives 120th out of 144 countries with data for 2010, putting it in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 11 years of available data.
Barro-Lee: Average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 1.97 | — |
| 1965 | 2.05 | +4.1% |
| 1970 | 2.29 | +11.7% |
| 1975 | 2.39 | +4.4% |
| 1980 | 2.54 | +6.3% |
| 1985 | 2.64 | +3.9% |
| 1990 | 2.41 | -8.7% |
| 1995 | 2.24 | -7.1% |
| 2000 | 2.13 | -4.9% |
| 2005 | 2.31 | +8.5% |
| 2010 | 2.93 | +26.8% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 2.01 | 1.97 | 2.05 | 2 |
| 1970s | 2.34 | 2.29 | 2.39 | 2 |
| 1980s | 2.59 | 2.54 | 2.64 | 2 |
| 1990s | 2.33 | 2.24 | 2.41 | 2 |
| 2000s | 2.22 | 2.13 | 2.31 | 2 |
| 2010s | 2.93 | 2.93 | 2.93 | 1 |
Countries ranked near Maldives
More education data for Maldives
- Start of the academic school year (tertiary education), gaps filled 2,024 tertiary education (2024)
- Start of the academic school year (tertiary education), annual growth 0.0494 % change on previous year (2024)
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 4,691 (2024)
- Duration of pre primary education, annual growth rate 0 % change on previous year (2025)
- Duration of pre primary education 2 (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre primary education 4 (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 76.0% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 19.0% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
Frequently asked questions
- What is barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives?
- Barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total in Maldives was 2.93 in 2010, according to Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.
- What is the highest barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total recorded in Maldives?
- The highest recorded value was 2.93 in 2010.
- What is the lowest barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total recorded in Maldives?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.97 in 1960.
- How does Maldives rank for barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total?
- Maldives ranks 120th out of 144 countries with data for 2010.
- Is barro-lee: average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total rising or falling in Maldives?
- Over the last ten years it is up 37.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Maldives data come from?
- The figures come from Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/, published as part of Barro-Lee: Average years of primary schooling, age 25+, total. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Average years of primary schooling, 25+, total is the average years of primary education completed among people over age 25.