Education at a Glance: 2014 OECD Indicators
Abstract
"The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its annual Education at a Glance report, an almanac of indicators on such topics as educational attainment, employment rates by level of education, funding for educational systems, and student mobility across the 34 OECD member nations as well as for 10 additional countries. The dataset encompasses many wealthy nations that predominantly make up the OECD's membership, in addition to countries with rapidly emerging economies, including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.Highlights from the data for the United States include the finding that while a large proportion of American adults have attained university-level education (at 43 percent, the fifth-highest rate among countries in the analysis), the postsecondary educational attainment rate is increasing much faster in many other countries. In regards to upward mobility, a relatively small proportion of U.S. adults (30 percent) attain a higher level of education than did their parents. Since the height of the economic crisis, the rate of unemployment has dropped for American adults with all levels of education."