List of countries by tertiary education attainment

This list includes non-OECD member countries: Argentina, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, India, Indonesia, and South Africa.{{Cite web |title=Education attainment |url=https://www.oecd.org/en/topics/sub-issues/education-attainment.html |access-date=2025-05-03 |website=OECD |language=en}}

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This list includes non-OECD member countries: Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and South Africa.{{cite web |title=OECD.Stat Education and Training > Education at a Glance > Educational attainment and labor-force status > Educational attainment of 25-64 year-olds |url=https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?QueryId=79431 |publisher=OECD}}

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! rowspan="2" |
Country

! rowspan="2" |Age
25–64
(%)

! colspan="4" |Age

! rowspan="2" |
Year

! rowspan="2" |
Non-OECD

|-

! 25–34
(%)!!35–44
(%)!!45–54
(%)!!55–64
(%)

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| align=left| {{flag|Australia}}||42||48||46||38||33||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Austria}}||30||38||33||27||21||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Belgium}}||37||44||42||34||26||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Brazil}}||14||15||14||14||11||2013||12px

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| align=left| {{flag|Canada}}||54||58||61||51||45||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Chile}}||36||38||34||28||26||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|China}}||60||65||47||25||10||2024||12px

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| align=left| {{flag|Colombia}}||22||28||23||18||16||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Costa Rica}}||18||21||19||17||17||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Czech Republic}}||22||30||21||20||16||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Denmark}}||36||42||41||33||29||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Estonia}}||38||40||39||35||36||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Finland}}||42||40||50||44||34||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|France}}||32||44||39||26||20||2013||

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| align=left| {{flag|Germany}}||27||28||29||26||25||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Greece}}||28||39||27||26||21||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Hungary}}||23||32||25||20||17||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Iceland}}||37||41||42||36||29||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Indonesia}}||12||16||9||8||4||2018||12px{{cite web |title=Education at a Glance Indonesia |url=https://www.oecd.org/education/education-at-a-glance/EAG2019_CN_IDN.pdf |publisher=OECD}}

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| align=left| {{flag|Ireland}}||41||51||49||34||24||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Israel}}||49||46||53||48||47||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Italy}}||17||24||19||13||12||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Japan}}||48||59||53||47||35||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Latvia}}||30||39||31||27||23||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Lithuania}}||37||53||38||30||28||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Luxembourg}}||46||53||56||40||32||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Mexico}}||19||25||17||16||13||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Netherlands}}||34||44||38||30||27||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|New Zealand}}||36||40||41||32||29||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Norway}}||42||49||49||36||32||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Poland}}||27||43||32||18||14||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Portugal}}||22||31||26||17||13||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Russia}}||54||58||55||53||50||2013||12px

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| align=left| {{flag|Saudi Arabia}}||22||26||22||18||14||2013||12px

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| align=left| {{flag|Slovakia}}||20||30||21||15||14||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Slovenia}}||29||38||35||24||18||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|South Africa}}||7||5||7||8||7||2012||12px

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| align=left| {{flag|South Korea}}||45||68||56||33||17||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Spain}}||35||41||43||30||21||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Sweden}}||39||46||46||32||30||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Switzerland}}||40||46||45||38||31||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Turkey}}||17||25||16||10||10||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|Taiwan}}{{cite web| url = https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/world-view/higher-education-crisis-taiwan| title = Higher Education Crisis in Taiwan {{!}} The World View}} ||45||X||X||X||X||2015||

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| align=left| {{flag|United Kingdom}}||42||49||46||38||35||2014||

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| align=left| {{flag|United States}}||44||46||47||43||41||2014||

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This is a list of countries by the level of tertiary education completed by 25–64 year olds as of the year 2022.{{Cite web |title= Home| date=12 September 2023 |url=https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/e13bef63-en/1/3/2/1/index.html?itemId=/content/publication/e13bef63-en&_csp_=a4f4b3d408c9dd70d167f10de61b8717&itemIGO=oecd&itemContentType=book#tablegrp-d1e3347-50bef92a42}}

• Education by country
• List of universities and colleges by country
• List of countries by secondary education attainment

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• {{cite book|last=Brick|first=Jean|title=Academic Culture: A Student's Guide to Studying at University|year=2006|publisher=National Centre for English Language Teaching and Research|location=Sydney, N.S.W|isbn=978-1-74138-135-1|pages=1–10|chapter=What is academic culture?}}

• [http://stats.uis.unesco.org/unesco/TableViewer/tableView.aspx?ReportId=167&IF_Language=eng Tertiary education statistics], UNESCO
• [http://www.qualityresearchinternational.com/glossary/tertiaryeducation.htm Quality Research International – (Glossary)]

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