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l can't see Nigeria on the list.
Work on your list and repost.

Education is one of the vital factors that contribute to the progress of society, in underdeveloped and developing nations, where literacy rate is not as high; a number of people are still living below the poverty line. Some countries (such as Japan and South Korea) have progressively maintained remarkable positions within the category of education systems; these are countries with very high literacy rates. These countries are extremely prosperous and the citizens have a high per capita income. Education is vital for the economic prosperity of a nation.

In this article, I want to unveil to you the most educated countries in the world. If you want to find out the most educated and most literate country in the world, we believe this post is perfectly made for you, so read on.

Top 20 Most Educated Countries In The World

1. Japan
THE MOST EDUCATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TOP 20

The first most educated country happens to be Japan; research has shown that Japanese students are consistently rank highly among (OECD) students in terms of quality and performance in reading literacy, math, and sciences. The average student scored 540 in reading literacy, maths and science in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) and the country has one of the world’s highest-educated labour forces among OECD countries. Its populace is well educated and its society highly values education as a platform for social mobility and for gaining employment in the country’s high-tech economy. The country’s large pool of highly educated and skilled individuals is largely responsible for ushering Japan’s post-war economic growth.

For three consecutive quarters, Japan has remained the best country in terms of education. Regarded as the country with the best education system in the world, Japan merits this spot as its government vigorously pumps substantial funds into the academic sector. Moreover, the Japanese education system adopts sophisticated technology in imparting knowledge to students.

2. South Korea
THE MOST EDUCATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TOP 20

The second most educated country is South Korea. South Korea is one of the top-performing OECD countries in reading literacy, mathematics and sciences with the average student scoring 542. The country has one of the world’s highest-educated labour forces among OECD countries. The country is well known for its obsession with education, which has come to be called “education fever”. The resource-poor nation is consistently ranked amongst the top for global education. In the 2014 national rankings of students’ math and science scores by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), South Korea ranked second place worldwide. South Korea outclasses Japan based on some of the criteria for ranking the world’s best education systems. However, Japan still claims the first spot (above South Korea and other countries) in view of its massive spending aimed at promoting early childhood education. Therefore, South Korea maintains the second spot just behind its toughest counterpart –Japan.

3. United Kingdom
THE MOST EDUCATED COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD TOP 20

Traditionally a high-performing country in international rankings of education, the UK has stagnated in recent years in such rankings as the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests; in 2013 for reading and maths the country as a whole stood in the middle-rankings, a position broadly similar to three years before. Within the UK Scotland performed marginally better than England; both were slightly ahead of Northern Ireland and markedly ahead of Wales. However these results contradict those of the education and publishing firm Pearson published in 2014, which placed the UK in second place across European countries and sixth worldwide; these rankings took account of higher-education graduate rates, which may have accounted for the higher ranking than in PISA UK actually merits a top position on this list majorly as a result of its steady academic advancement. At the same time, the United Kingdom has the best education system in the entirety of Europe. Each of the members (such as England and Wales) under the United Kingdom has contributed immensely to the academic phase of the country and this is actually why UK deserves no less than the third position among the world’s most educated countries.

4. Singapore
Singapore is best rated for its impressive primary education and this has given it a significant edge in the attempt to outclass UK’s education system. For considerable years, Singapore has maintained a remarkable education system and records show that the country’s education system might displace that of the United Kingdom anytime soon.

5. Russia
The literacy rate in Russia, according to a 2015 estimate by the Central Intelligence Agency, is 99.7% (99.7% men, 99.6% women). According to a 2016 OECD estimate, 54% of Russia’s adults (25- to 64-year-olds) have attained a tertiary education, giving Russia the second highest attainment of college-level education in the world. 47.7% have completed secondary education (the full 11-year course); 26.5% have completed middle school (9 years) and 8.1% have elementary education (at least 4 years). Highest rates of tertiary education, 24.7% are recorded among women aged 35–39 years (compared to 19.5% for men of the same age bracket).

To some people, Russia should have claimed a greater rank than the fifth position –or simply considered the most educated country in the world. With a lack of adequate spending on childhood education being its major weakness, some observers believe Russia doesn’t deserve anything above the fifth position.

6. Finland
Early childhood education is not mandatory in Finland, but is used by almost everyone.Looking at each of the criteria for ranking the most educated countries, Finland misses out on the first position but again, the country has managed to appear among the top 20 countries with the best education system due to its considerable investment in education. Also noteworthy is that Finland isn’t ranked beyond the sixth position due to its childhood education that lacks adequate standards.

Canada
Education is compulsory up to the age of 16 in every province in Canada, except for Manitoba, Ontario, and New Brunswick, where the compulsory age is 18, or as soon as a high school diploma has been achieved. Canada should have merited more than this position but the fact that the country barely pays attention to adequate childhood education has deprived it of a much better global academic stance. Significantly, Canada is the highest producer of college graduates across the globe and this is obviously why the country is worthy of mention herein.

8. Netherlands
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), coordinated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), ranks the education in the Netherlands as the 9th best in the world as of 2008, being significantly higher than the OECD average. On a certain ground, Netherland should have claimed a better position at the expense of the countries above but its inadequate out-turn of high school graduates reduces its academic prestige and deprives it of a better rate. On the other hand, Netherland spends massively in promoting early childhood education but this alone is not enough to give the country a position better than this.

Ireland
Although Ireland’s education system is associated with some advancement, the country doesn’t merit any position better than this because its government hardly focuses on the swift development of early childhood education. If the Irish government could fortify the country’s early childhood education, Ireland would bridge its competition amidst the other countries ranked above it.

10. Israel
Israel’s populace is well educated and Israeli society highly values education. Education is a core value in Jewish culture and in Israeli society at large with many Israeli parents sacrificing their own personal comforts and financial resources to provide their children with the highest standards of education possible. Much of the Israeli Jewish population seek education as a passport to a decent job and a middle class paycheck in the country’s competitive high-tech economy. Jewish parents especially mothers take great responsibility to inculcate the value of education in their children at a young age Finland is believed to have adopted the Israeli education system in modifying its own system of providing education. Meanwhile, Israel is restricted to the tenth position majorly because its government is yet to invest considerably in the advancement of early childhood education.

11. China
As regards China’s gargantuan population (regarded as the largest in the world), the country is considered one of the global largest education systems. While China has phenomenally expanded basic education for its people, quadrupling its output of college graduates in the past decade, it has also created a system that discriminates against its less wealthy and well-connected citizens, thwarting social mobility at every step with bureaucratic and financial barriers. A huge gap in educational opportunities between students from rural areas and those from cities is one of the main culprits. Some 60 million students in rural schools are ‘left-behind’ children, cared for by their grandparents as their parents seek work in faraway cities. While many of their urban peers attend schools equipped with state-of-the-art facilities and well-trained teachers, rural students often huddle in decrepit school buildings and struggle to grasp advanced subjects such as English and chemistry amid a dearth of qualified instructors.

Impressively, the Chinese academic sector still manages to appear in the category of the world’s best education systems. However, China doesn’t make the Top 10 mainly because the Chinese government spends less on early childhood education. Also, there is no massive number of students competing for high school enrollments.

12. New Zealand
Primary and secondary education in New Zealand runs from aged 5 to aged 19, with school compulsory between 6 and 16. There are three types of secondary schools in New Zealand: state schools educate approximately 85% of students, state-integrated schools — private schools that have been integrated into the state but keep their special charter — educate 12%, and private schools educate 3%.

New Zealand is associated with poor academic performances at the primary level and unfortunately, this constitutes the reasons why the country is never on a par with either of the countries ranked among the top 10 best educated countries in the world.

13. Norway
Like New Zealand, Norway is restricted to a lower position because it is largely associated with poor academic performances at the primary level. If not for this drawback, Norway should have ranked higher than this because it’s other academic levels show excellence. Not as successful as their neighboring country Finland, Norway’s education system is very good, the only weakness is at the primary education student test scores.



14. Belgium
Belgium has four different genres of secondary schools, namely general secondary schools, technical secondary schools, vocational secondary education schools, and art secondary education institutions. The Fulbright Commission in the US, which organizes student exchanges with Belgium and Luxembourg, says: “Education enjoys high priority, and the largest share of the regional governments’ annual budget in Belgium.

Complete systems of public and private schools are available to all children between the ages of 4 and 18, at little or no cost.” Initially, Belgium’s education system showed some excellent performance but at a later time, the Belgian government reduced its academic investment. Consequently, the Belgian education system was driven backwards.

15. Germany
History has shown Germany has a very strong education system, however, over the last couple of decades; they’ve fallen behind other countries in addressing social change within the country, the German government has failed to keep social change within its grips and this has reduced the academic prestige of Germany.

Denmark
Denmark is rather brilliant in the aspect of childhood education, the country is still observed as maintaining average standards in all academic levels and this is why it isn’t worth being ranked high.

17. Estonia
Estonia has been doing well in both early childhood and primary aspects of education. Estonia spends around 4% of its GDP on education, according to 2015 figures. The country’s 1992 Education Act says that the goals of education are “to create favorable conditions for the development of personality, family and the Estonian nation; to promote the development of ethnic minorities, economic, political and cultural life in Estonia and the preservation of nature in the global economic and cultural context; to teach the values of citizenship; and to set up the prerequisites for creating a tradition of lifelong learning nation-wide.” Meanwhile, it is quite surprising that the country manages to rank better than the United States in terms of education.

18. U.S.A
Some observers might frown at the certainty that the United States of America is kept within the 18th position as regards the most educated countries in the world. Although the United States has global influence and is considered one of the richest countries, it is yet to focus highly on early childhood education and improve on its out-turn of high school graduates.

19. France
France claims a significant point in terms of early childhood education. However, it has failed to rank well on this list due to its negligence towards the other academic levels such as high education. Early-Childhood commitment to prepare children for entrance into primary school is impressive. The problem starts with primary levels due to the country’s growing multicultural population. Consequently, the country hasn’t achieved any remarkable feat beyond early childhood education.

20. Portugal
Portugal should have ranked well if not for the setbacks the European Union has posed to it. The countries high school graduation rate reported by OECD’s 2012 (100%) is being challenged by EU, which conclude Portugal’s weak economy state. As a result of this, the country is plagued by a controversial out-turn of high school graduates. Without any doubt, Portugal claims the last and twentieth spot on the list of top 20 best education systems in the world.

That’s all on the Top 20 Most Educated Countries in The World 2017 / 2018. I know that this information may be of help to you but if there seems to be any question please use the comment box tank you.

Where 9ja dey gangan?

Asia and book sha
They focus on learning instead of memory.

Asia and book sha
They focus on learning instead of memory.

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Where is my dear country Nigeria? Na only "whites" and Asians take education seriously?

No African country?

If Cuba is not there, then its fake

DjAndroid:
No African country?

I weak for them. mitchew

Estellar:
Where is my dear country Nigeria? Na only "whites" and Asians take education seriously?

Stop behaving childish! Was nigeria suppose to be in everything?

For those of u waiting to see naija on that list...just think of kaduna state teachers....


And there are millions of them spread across the nation

there should have been more Scandinavian countries on the list...and am surprised not to see Italy and Spain

This people shouting nigeria..una dy craze baah...

Wetin we get!!!

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Chukazu:
there should have been more Scandinavian countries on the list...and am surprised not to see Italy and Spain

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bonaz:
Education is one of the vital factors that contribute to the progress of society, in underdeveloped and developing nations, where literacy rate is not as high; a number of people are still living below the poverty line. Some countries (such as Japan and South Korea) have progressively maintained remarkable positions within the category of education systems; these are countries with very high literacy rates. These countries are extremely prosperous and the citizens have a high per capita income. Education is vital for the economic prosperity of a nation.

In this article, I want to unveil to you the most educated countries in the world. If you want to find out the most educated and most literate country in the world, we believe this post is perfectly made for you, so read on.
for more info visit>>>[url=http://www.gisttrending.com.ng/2017/11/10/the-most-educated-countries-in-the-world/][/url]

can't find any Muslim countries in the list

Jaguntemmy:

ITALI AND SPAIN DEY SUFFER THEIR ECONOMY DOWNFALL @ -4% AND -6% RESPECTIVELY
EVEN 9JA DEY +4%

I know...but best on that indices Portugal is even worst economy Wise and shouldn't even come near, instead we be talking about Switzerland

Nigeria is only educated in coruption and sorts of crimes

Make I hear say African countries dy among first 50 white men think say dy know pass

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Cletus77:

Stop behaving childish! Was nigeria suppose to be in everything?

adult, y not ignore my childish post? Unam

Nigeria is among most education country with highest rate of Unemployment opportunity in world

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encryptjay:
Asia and book sha
They focus on learning instead of memory.

make we go Japan naa

barackodam:


make we go Japan naa

Yes o, we're heading there.