Barro-Lee: Average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe: Barro-Lee: Average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total was 0.04 in 2010. ▼ Falling
Barro-Lee: Average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe, 1960–2010
Source: Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.
Analysis
The most recent figure for barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe is 0.04, measured in 2010. That is the lowest value across all 11 years on record.
That represents a change of down 20.0% over ten years.
Over the whole period, barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe peaked at 0.16 in 1990 and was at its lowest, 0.04, in 2005.
Zimbabwe ranks 132nd of 144 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 11 years of available data.
Barro-Lee: Average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe, year by year
| Year | Value | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 0.05 | — |
| 1965 | 0.07 | +40.0% |
| 1970 | 0.07 | +0.0% |
| 1975 | 0.09 | +28.6% |
| 1980 | 0.11 | +22.2% |
| 1985 | 0.14 | +27.3% |
| 1990 | 0.16 | +14.3% |
| 1995 | 0.11 | -31.2% |
| 2000 | 0.05 | -54.5% |
| 2005 | 0.04 | -20.0% |
| 2010 | 0.04 | +0.0% |
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 0.06 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 2 |
| 1970s | 0.08 | 0.07 | 0.09 | 2 |
| 1980s | 0.125 | 0.11 | 0.14 | 2 |
| 1990s | 0.135 | 0.11 | 0.16 | 2 |
| 2000s | 0.045 | 0.04 | 0.05 | 2 |
| 2010s | 0.04 | 0.04 | 0.04 | 1 |
Countries ranked near Zimbabwe
More education data for Zimbabwe
- Primary education, teachers, gaps filled 90,330 (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 56.2% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 40.3% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 13 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- Primary secondary enrollment completion rates, gaps filled 93.08 (2024)
- School enrollment, primary 93.1% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe?
- Barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total in Zimbabwe was 0.04 in 2010, according to Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.
- What is the highest barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The highest recorded value was 0.16 in 1990.
- What is the lowest barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total recorded in Zimbabwe?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.04 in 2005.
- How does Zimbabwe rank for barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total?
- Zimbabwe ranks 132nd out of 144 countries with data for 2010.
- Is barro-lee: average years of tertiary schooling, age 25+, total rising or falling in Zimbabwe?
- Over the last ten years it is down 20.0%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
- Where does this Zimbabwe 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 tertiary schooling, age 25+, total. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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Average years of tertiary schooling, 25+, total is the average years of tertiary education completed among people over age 25.