Tertiary education graduation ratesin OECD countries 2007

This statistic shows the tertiary education graduation rates for OECD countries as of 2007. In 2007, 63.1 percent of the Icelandic population, who were at the typical age to graduate, were university graduates.

Percentage of tertiary education graduates* in OECD countries in 2007

Characteristic	Graduation rate
Iceland	63.1%
Australia**	49.8%
Poland	49%
Finland	48.5%
New Zealand	47.6%
Denmark	47.3%
Ireland	45%
Norway	43.4%
Netherlands	42.8%
Portugal	42.6%
Sweden	39.9%
Slovak Republic	38.9%
Japan	38.8%
United Kingdom	38.7%
United States	36.5%
Italy	35%
Czech Republic	34.9%
Spain	32.4%
Switzerland	31.4%
Canada**	30.6%
Hungary	29.4%
Germany	23.4%
Austria	22.1%
Greece	17.7%
Turkey**	15.2%

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Release date

June 2010

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Worldwide

Survey time period

2007

Supplementary notes

*The graduate rate was calculated as the percentage of graduates to the population at the typical age of graduation.
** The values for Canada, Australia and Turkey were taken from 2006 as there was no available data for 2007.
The source provides no data for Belgium, France, Korea, Luxembourg, Mexico.

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