Average years of schooling and the Central American comparison
- Workforce, education and talent
- The labor force, in numbers
- not audited
Mean years of schooling for the population aged 25 and over are 5.85 in 2022 (the same figure is repeated for 2023), according to the UNDP Human Development Report via Our World in Data. On a different methodology, Guate en Datos put Guatemala at 6.26 years in 2020, the lowest level in the region: Belize 10.71, Panama 10.44, Costa Rica 9.12, El Salvador 8.10, Nicaragua 7.76 and Honduras 7.51. The two series are not comparable with each other and the dossier says so; for the file it proposes the schooling_years_mean indicator drawn from OWID.
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Figures
- Años promedio de escolaridad (25+)
- 5.85
- Años de escolaridad, comparativo regional
- GT 6.26; Belice 10.71; Panamá 10.44; Costa Rica 9.12; El Salvador 8.10; Nicaragua 7.76; Honduras 7.51
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