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Table 401. | Number of bachelor's degree recipients per 100 persons of the typical age of graduation, by sex and country: 2002, 2003, and 2004 |
Country | Male and female | Male | Female | ||||||
2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Australia | 50.7 | 54.8 | 46.9 | 43.0 | 46.7 | 37.4 | 58.8 | 63.4 | 57.0 |
Austria | 18.0 | 19.0 | 19.6 | 17.9 | 18.7 | 19.0 | 18.1 | 19.4 | 20.3 |
Belgium1 | 19.2 | — | 18.8 | 18.7 | — | 18.0 | 19.7 | — | 19.6 |
Canada | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Czech Republic | 15.4 | 17.3 | 21.0 | 14.3 | 15.9 | 18.8 | 16.6 | 18.8 | 23.4 |
Denmark | 34.4 | 38.6 | 46.6 | 23.4 | 25.1 | 33.3 | 45.7 | 52.3 | 59.9 |
Finland | 51.8 | 55.8 | 55.2 | 37.7 | 40.4 | 39.9 | 66.4 | 72.2 | 71.3 |
France | 39.0 | 41.5 | 40.8 | 32.9 | 34.9 | 34.1 | 45.3 | 48.4 | 47.6 |
Germany | 19.2 | 19.5 | 20.6 | 19.3 | 19.3 | 20.3 | 19.1 | 19.7 | 20.9 |
Hungary | 31.1 | 33.6 | 35.6 | 23.2 | 24.6 | 25.4 | 39.3 | 43.2 | 46.3 |
Iceland | 40.0 | 44.2 | 50.7 | 27.2 | 29.4 | 31.5 | 53.1 | 59.1 | 70.4 |
Ireland | 30.9 | 36.8 | 38.6 | 25.6 | 29.7 | 31.9 | 36.2 | 44.0 | 45.3 |
Italy | 22.4 | 27.8 | 37.7 | 19.2 | 24.0 | 31.4 | 25.6 | 31.6 | 44.3 |
Japan | 34.1 | 34.4 | 36.3 | 40.2 | 40.1 | 41.4 | 27.6 | 28.5 | 31.0 |
Korea, Republic of | 31.5 | 31.7 | 31.4 | 31.6 | 32.1 | 30.9 | 31.3 | 31.2 | 31.9 |
Mexico | 16.5 | 14.3 | 14.0 | 15.6 | 13.3 | 13.3 | 17.4 | 15.3 | 14.6 |
Netherlands | 38.6 | 42.5 | 42.0 | 34.4 | 36.4 | 36.4 | 42.9 | 48.7 | 47.8 |
New Zealand | 41.6 | 39.0 | 50.9 | 31.8 | 29.1 | 37.8 | 51.3 | 49.1 | 64.4 |
Norway | 41.1 | 42.0 | 42.9 | 29.7 | 30.0 | 30.9 | 52.8 | 54.2 | 55.2 |
Portugal | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Spain | 33.1 | 32.0 | 31.5 | 26.4 | 25.5 | 24.7 | 40.0 | 38.9 | 38.7 |
Sweden | 35.2 | 38.4 | 40.3 | 26.5 | 28.6 | 30.1 | 44.1 | 48.5 | 50.9 |
Switzerland | 20.8 | 20.9 | 21.6 | 23.3 | 23.5 | 23.3 | 18.3 | 18.4 | 19.9 |
Turkey | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
United Kingdom | — | — | 39.2 | — | — | 34.2 | — | — | 44.3 |
United States | 36.1 | 33.4 | 33.3 | 29.7 | 27.6 | 27.6 | 42.9 | 39.4 | 39.3 |
— Not available. 1 Data for Flemish Belgium only. NOTE: The recipients per 100 persons ratio relates the number of people of all ages earning bachelor's degrees in a particular year to the number of people in the population at the typical age of graduation. The typical age is based on full-time attendance and normal progression through the education system (without repeating a year, taking a year off, etc.); this age varies across countries because of differences in their education systems. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education Online Database. Retrieved October 24, 2006, from http://stats.oecd.org/WBOS/Default.aspx. (This table was prepared October 2006.) |