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| Among the Best countries with the highest proportion of educated adults, unemployment rates for those with a college equivalent ranged from 2.8% in Australia to 5.4% in the Canada. In each country, the rate remained lower than that country’s national average. The OECD provided information on the percentage of residents aged 25 to 64 with a tertiary education for each of its 34 member countries,Also in for eight other nations. These are the 10 most educated countries in the world after the break. |
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| Canada is the only nation where more than half of all adults had a tertiary education in 2010 and 2011. This was up from 42% of the adult population in 2000, when the country also ranked as the world’s most educated. Canada has managed to become a world leader in education without being a leader in education spending, which totaled just 6.5% of GDP in 2009, or less than the 6.6% average for the OECD. A large amount of its spending went towards tertiary education, on which the country spent 2.5% of GDP, trailing only the United States and South Korea. One of the few areas Canada did not perform well in was attracting international students. |
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| Israel only joined the OECD in 2010. That year, its GDP per capita was more than $8,000 below the OECD’s average. Despite this, the country’s high school graduation rate was 94% in 2010, well above the OECD’s 83% average. Some 45% of residents had a tertiary education, versus 31% for the OECD. Israel spent 7.3% of GDP on educational institutions in 2009, the sixth most among all nations. |
