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DO YOU KNOW THAT? … Facts and figures about education in Albania

Education budget as a% of Gross Domestic Product in (2018) was 3.2%

 

  1. The average in the countries of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is about 5%

 

  1. Education budget as a% of public expenditure (2018) was 10.9% (or ALL 51.6 billion)

 

  1. Pre-university Education Budget as a% of Gross Domestic Product (2018) was 2.38%

 

  1. Costs per student (2018) were 85,865 ALL

 

  1. For the 2018-2019 school year, attendance at all levels of education was 84.4%

 

  1. Where 99.7% in 9-year education

 

  1. Where 95.6% GER in secondary education

 

  1. 95.6% (of 96.5% in 2017) of students who attended 9-year education in 2018 were of the age group 6-14

 

  1. 92.3% of students (in 9-year education) and 87.6% of students (in secondary education) for 2018-2019 participated in public education

 

  1. 18.3% of total secondary education students attended vocational education in the 2018-2019 school year

 

  1. 37,795 was the number of students graduating from 9-year education and 35,278 from secondary education in 2018

 

  1. 11.9% of secondary education graduates were from vocational education

 

  1. 5,500 were the number of Roma students and 11,100 Egyptian students in 2018 (tripled in the last decade)

 

  1. Girls perform better than boys in all disciplines