Education in Europe – Key statistics 2008

More than a 100 million pupils and students are in the European education system; roughly 4 million graduates are in tertiary education and about 60% are females; more than 90 in every 100 4-years-olds are enrolled in pre-primary or in primary education. This is a brief selection of the available key statistics on education coming from the yearly joint UOE (Unesco Institute for Statistics, OECD and Eurostat) data collection. The disseminated data cover the 27 EU Member States, the candidate and the EFTA/EEA countries and United States and Japan. The period of reference is the calendar year 2008 for graduates and the school/academic year 2007/08 for other data.