Education in Asia

[1] UNESCO's measurement categories for education are used in the context of international development work and are adopted by the World Bank in its EdStats database.

[3][4] By comparison, Gross Enrollment Rates for North America and Western Europe in 2013 were 84.3% for pre-primary, 101.1% for primary, 105.1% for secondary, and 76.6% for tertiary education.

[1] Many Asian nations lack the capacity to scale up their enrollment to meet the escalating demand.

Even though many Asian nations still have low GER compared with their North American and Western European counterparts, there has been considerable progress in recent years.

For example, consider the change in GER over ten years preceding the latest data reported, for the three most populous Asian countries: China, India and Indonesia.

All three countries had achieved virtually universal primary education (close to 100%) before this ten-year period, so consider the other three levels.

Aerial view of Nanyang Model High School in Shanghai, China, one of the oldest public secondary schools in Asia
The Nakano Junior and Senior High School Attached to Meiji University , an example of an affiliation of primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions common in China, Japan, and Korea.
The Hall of Classics at Guozijian , in Beijing , China, which was the foremost Chinese institution of higher education throughout the Yuan , Ming , and Qing dynasties . During the imperial era of China, only a small fraction of the population received formal education.
Academic buildings at Peking University , the modern successor of the Guozijian and a top-ranked university in China, Asia, and globally.