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Question: How far in your education do you expect to go?
Choices: "Finish Lower secondary education" "Finish Upper secondary education" "Finish Post-secondary, non-tertiary education" "Finish Short-cycle tertiary education" "Finish Bachelorfs or equivalent level" "Finish Postgraduate degree"
Data: % of "Finish Bachelorfs or equivalent level" "Finish Postgraduate degree"
Period:
Area:
39 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Turkiye84.2%
2 Taiwan83.4%
3 Cyprus81.4%
4 Kuwait78.9%
5 Bahrain78.0%
6 United States77.4%
7 Qatar77.0%
8 Jordan76.5%
9 Egypt76.2%
10 Lebanon76.1%
11 Iran75.9%
12 Israel75.2%
13 Hong Kong, China74.9%
14 United Arab Emirates74.3%
15 Republic of Korea71.9%
16 Chile70.9%
17 Singapore69.8%
18 Saudi Arabia68.5%
19 Lithuania68.4%
20 Oman64.2%
21 Japan61.7%
22 Morocco 61.6%
23 Norway61.2%
24 South Africa60.6%
25 Ireland58.1%
26 Kazakhstan57.4%
27 Russian Federation56.8%
28 Portugal56.7%
28 United Kingdom56.7%
30 Australia52.9%
31 Romania52.5%
32 Georgia52.3%
33 Sweden51.6%
34 Hungary50.8%
35 Italy50.4%
36 Finland48.9%
37 New Zealand43.6%
38 France42.0%
39 Malaysia37.3%

Note
United Kingdom: England only.

No data for 199 countries.

Source
TIMSS 2019 > International Database > TIMSS 2019 Data Almanacs - Grade 8

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -2.747645 X +7.865
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.337
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.114

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -9189.879693 X +40448.322
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.047
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = -1.475471 X +79.492
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.040
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.002

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data38
Regression equation
Y = 0.686763 X +1.385
Correlation coefficient (r)0.148
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.022

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data37
Regression equation
Y = -17.667060 X +21.921
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.315
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.099