All countries except Bhutan, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, and Vatican City have compulsory education.
Nearly a year after the Taliban seized control, Afghanistan has notoriously become the world's only country where girls are forbidden from attending secondary schools, solely because of their gender.
Australia has been ranked 39 out of 41 high and middle-income countries in achieving quality education, according to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF).
Top 10 Most Literate Countries in the World:
San Marino - 2018 - 99.92% Latvia - 2018 - 99.89% Estonia - 2011 - 99.89%
Japan is one of the top-performing OECD countries in reading literacy, mathematics and sciences on Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests with the average student scoring 520, compared with the OECD average of 488, placing it eighth in the world in the 2018 ranking.
Top Ten Countries with the Highest Math Ranking:
United States — 45.8% United Kingdom — 6.3% Germany — 6% France — 5.3%
The appropriately named Marilyn vos Savant is in a class of her own. According to Guinness World Records, her astonishing IQ of 228 is the highest ever recorded. The daughter of an Italian and a German immigrant, vos Savant was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1946.
Which are the hardest education systems in the world? Ans. The countries with the hardest and most difficult education systems include South Korea, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, Finland, etc.
Guinea, Niger, Djoubite, Kiribati, and Niue are the least literate nations. Africa's literacy rate remains low. One in three African adults cannot read, and a staggering 48 million people aged between 15-24 are illiterate.
Australia has among the most educated young people in the OECD, with 54 per cent holding an advanced qualification in 2021, but they languish near the bottom of the pile when it comes to earnings relative to their education.
Australia sets the standard for excellence in education internationally. Our education sector is based on a network of world-leading education providers, premium facilities, outstanding lecturers and student support services.
The report finds Australians are highly educated. Just 9 per cent of Australians aged 25 to 34 didn't finish secondary school, compared with 14 per cent across the OECD. In addition, the proportion of Australians with a degree has skyrocketed in the past two decades, from 31 per cent in 2000 to 54 per cent in 2021.
1. Afghanistan. Afghanistan ranks last out of 170 countries on the WPS Index and 157th out of 162 on the UN Gender Inequality Index.
The Taliban banned girls above the sixth grade from going to school after returning to power after running an armed rebellion against US-led foreign forces for 20 years. Afghan girls now fear for their future as many of them have been transformed from students into child labourers.
Motivations for single-sex education range from religious ideas of sex segregation to beliefs that the sexes learn and behave differently. As such, they thrive in a single-sex environment.
Elon Musk IQ is close to this starting point, with an estimated score of 155. The typical genius has an IQ of around 140.
Adragon De Mello: IQ 400
In 1988, when Adragon De Mello graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in computational mathematics at the age of 11, he was the youngest college graduate in the United States (a record he no longer holds).