Graduates by broad field of education (% of total graduates), 2006
| Country |
Education (1) |
Human-ities and arts (2) |
Social science, bus. and law (3) |
Science (4) |
Engineer-ing, manufact-uring and con-struction |
Health and welfare (5) |
Services |
Other (6) |
Total graduates |
Total graduates per mill. pop'n |
| New Zealand |
11.9 |
16.0 |
37.6 |
11.4 |
5.2 |
13.1 |
3.4 |
1.4 |
59,320 |
14,191 |
| Australia |
9.5 |
10.9 |
41.8 |
12.7 |
7.9 |
13.2 |
2.9 |
1.0 |
284,910 |
13,764 |
| Korea |
7.9 |
18.6 |
19.9 |
7.3 |
28.1 |
11.0 |
5.8 |
1.4 |
605,160 |
12,498 |
| United Kingdom |
11.0 |
15.4 |
30.5 |
13.4 |
8.2 |
18.3 |
0.8 |
2.3 |
640,246 |
10,565 |
| France |
2.1 |
12.1 |
41.6 |
11.1 |
14.7 |
13.0 |
3.9 |
1.5 |
643,604 |
10,491 |
| United States |
11.5 |
13.2 |
38.1 |
8.9 |
7.2 |
13.5 |
6.5 |
1.1 |
2,639,006 |
8,814 |
| Switzerland (8) |
8.7 |
6.6 |
40.2 |
9.4 |
13.6 |
9.8 |
8.4 |
3.3 |
63,372 |
8,518 |
| Japan |
7.1 |
15.2 |
27.0 |
3.0 |
18.2 |
12.8 |
9.7 |
7.1 |
1,067,939 |
8,359 |
| Hong Kong SAR (7) |
11.1 |
9.9 |
31.5 |
14.7 |
20.6 |
5.3 |
1.5 |
5.5 |
39,285 |
5,669 |
| Germany |
7.5 |
10.5 |
24.2 |
10.9 |
16.3 |
24.1 |
3.9 |
2.7 |
343,874 |
4,170 |
| United Arab Emirates (7) |
11.9 |
13.4 |
35.4 |
23.4 |
9.4 |
5.1 |
1.2 |
0.1 |
13,222 |
3,225 |
Footnotes:
1: Includes teacher training, education science, and educational assessment.
2: Includes religion and theology, foreign languages and cultures, native languages, other humanities such as interpretation and translation, linguistics, comparative literature, history, archaeology, philosophy, ethics. Fine arts, performing arts, graphic and audio-visual arts, design, and craft skills.
3: Includes social and behavioural science, journalism and information, business and administration, and law.
4: Includes life sciences, physical sciences, mathematics and statistics, and computer sciences.
5: Includes medicine, medical services, nursing, dental services, social care, and social work.
6: Includes agriculture and unspecified programs.
7: Data are 2007 estimates.
8: Data are for 2005.
Sources: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, www.uis.unesco.org; World Bank Group, World Development Indicators (population figures corresponding to year of latest available students data).