The average years of education refers to the average of the total years of academic education (including adult academic education, excluding various academic training) of a population group in a certain period and region.
According to the current academic system, the per capita education years, that is, college education or above, are 16, high school is 12, junior high school is 9 years, primary school is 6 years, and illiteracy is 0 years. If this coefficient is used to calculate the average years of education of the population aged 6 and above.
The current situation in China:
On 20021May 1 1 Sunday, the State Council held a press conference to introduce the main data of the seventh national census: the population with university education was 218.36 million.
Compared with 20 10 year, the number of people with college education per 100000 population has increased from 8930 to 15467, and the average length of education of people aged 15 and above has increased from 9.08 to 9.9 1 year, and the illiteracy rate has increased from 4.08%. The continuous improvement of education reflects that since 10, China has vigorously developed higher education, eliminated illiteracy among young people and continuously improved the quality of the population.