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Low- and Middle-Income Country Educational Attainment Geospatial Estimates 2000-2017

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General Info
Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Geography 
Afghanistan (AFG)
Algeria (DZA)
Angola (AGO)
Bangladesh (BGD)
Belize (BLZ)
Benin (BEN)
Bhutan (BTN)
Bolivia (BOL)
Botswana (BWA)
Brazil (BRA)
Burkina Faso (BFA)
Burundi (BDI)
Cabo Verde (CPV)
Cambodia (KHM)
Cameroon (CMR)
Central African Republic (CAF)
Chad (TCD)
China (CHN)
Colombia (COL)
Comoros (COM)
Congo (COG)
Costa Rica (CRI)
Cuba (CUB)
Côte d'Ivoire (CIV)
Democratic Republic of the Congo (COD)
Djibouti (DJI)
Dominican Republic (DOM)
Ecuador (ECU)
Egypt (EGY)
El Salvador (SLV)
Equatorial Guinea (GNQ)
Eritrea (ERI)
Ethiopia (ETH)
Gabon (GAB)
Gambia (GMB)
Ghana (GHA)
Guatemala (GTM)
Guinea (GIN)
Guinea-Bissau (GNB)
Guyana (GUY)
Haiti (HTI)
Honduras (HND)
India (IND)
Indonesia (IDN)
Iran (Islamic Republic of) (IRN)
Iraq (IRQ)
Jamaica (JAM)
Jordan (JOR)
Kenya (KEN)
Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)
Lao People's Democratic Republic (LAO)
Lesotho (LSO)
Liberia (LBR)
Libya (LBY)
Madagascar (MDG)
Malawi (MWI)
Malaysia (MYS)
Mali (MLI)
Mauritania (MRT)
Mexico (MEX)
Mongolia (MNG)
Morocco (MAR)
Mozambique (MOZ)
Myanmar (MMR)
Namibia (NAM)
Nepal (NPL)
Nicaragua (NIC)
Niger (NER)
Nigeria (NGA)
Pakistan (PAK)
Palestine (PSE)
Panama (PAN)
Papua New Guinea (PNG)
Paraguay (PRY)
Peru (PER)
Philippines (PHL)
Rwanda (RWA)
Sao Tome and Principe (STP)
Senegal (SEN)
Sierra Leone (SLE)
Somalia (SOM)
South Africa (ZAF)
South Sudan (SSD)
Sudan (SDN)
Suriname (SUR)
Eswatini (SWZ)
Syrian Arab Republic (SYR)
Tajikistan (TJK)
Thailand (THA)
Timor-Leste (TLS)
Togo (TGO)
Trinidad and Tobago (TTO)
Tunisia (TUN)
Turkmenistan (TKM)
Uganda (UGA)
United Republic of Tanzania (TZA)
Uzbekistan (UZB)
Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (VEN)
Viet Nam (VNM)
Western Sahara
Yemen (YEM)
Zambia (ZMB)
Zimbabwe (ZWE)
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Coverage type 
Country
Time period covered 
01/2000 - 12/2017
Data type
Estimate:
  • Subnationally representative
Summary 

This dataset contains estimates produced for educational attainment for adults ages 15-49, and the 20–24 subgroup, by sex at the 5x5 km-level for 105 low- and middle-income countries for 2000-2017. It provides years of education and proportion of the population attaining key levels of education. These estimates were produced using individual records from 528 geo-referenced household sample survey and census sources.

The dataset includes the following:

  • GeoTIFF raster files for pixel-level estimates of mean educational attainment, and proportion of the population achieving zero, less than primary, primary, and secondary schooling for adults ages 15-49 and 20-24, divided by sex
  • CSV files of aggregated estimates for each country at the zero, first, and second administrative divisions
  • Code files used to generate the estimates

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Keywords 
Education
Related publications and visualizations 
Mapping disparities in education across low- and middle-income countries
News release: Findings on education, malnutrition ‘deeply disturbing’ with United Nations’ goals 10 years away
Local Burden of Disease - Education
GHDx Entry last modified on: Sep 23, 2022