Data External Resource

Barro-Lee Educational Attainment Data

Years

1950-2010

Topics

Education

Description

The Barro-Lee Educational Attaintment Data set provides educational attainment data for 146 countries in 5-year intervals from 1950 to 2010. It also provides information about the distribution of educational attainment of the adult population over age 15 and over age 25 by sex at seven levels of schooling and average years of schooling at all levels.

The current version of the data updated and expanded the previous estimates by using additional information and an improved methodology.

For detailed information, see http://barrolee.com.

Related paper:
Barro, Robert and Jong-Wha Lee, 2013. "A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010." Journal of Development Economics, vol 104, pp.184-198. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.10.001

Type of Database

Database/Dataset

Type of Data

Quantitative