EducationLiteracy {Lock5Data}

Education and Literacy

Description

Education spending and literacy rates for countries.

Format

A data frame with 170 observations on the following 4 variables.

Country

Name of country

Code

Three-letter code for country

Education

Education spending (as a percentage of GDP)

Literacy

Literacy rate

Details

For each country, we have public spending on education (as a percentage of GDP) and literacy rate (percentage of the population who can read and write).
** Updated for 3e (an earlier version is at EducationLiteracy2e). **

Source

Most recent data (as of 2019) for each country obtained from https://www.worldbank.org/en/home.