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Figure 1. Educational structure of the population (20-64 years old)
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20 40 60 80
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1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014
Primary education
Secondary education without school-leaving exam
Secondary education with school-leaving exam
Tertiary education
Source: Czech Labor Force Survey data (1994-2014), own calculation
These changes in educational structure of population are mostly driven by higher
educational achievements of younger cohorts (see Figure 2). If we focus on individuals
aged 25 to 35, individuals with lower levels of education are much less represented than in
the whole population (5.4% of primary educated and 27% of secondary educated without
school-leaving exam as opposed to 7% and 35% in the whole population, respectively) and
the share of those with higher education, especially tertiary is substantially larger (30% of
university graduates compared to 20% of tertiary educated in the population, see Figures 1
and 2).
Although the share of tertiary educated among recent graduates is growing fast and
reaches 30% nowadays, the number of university graduates is still relatively low in
international comparison. The Czech Republic has the sixth lowest share of tertiary
educated in the EU, with the EU average being 37% of tertiary educated graduates and
some countries, like Lithuania or Ireland, reaching more than 50% of tertiary educated in
young cohorts.6
6 Source: Eurostat, Population with tertiary educational attainment level by sex and age, 2013:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/data/database.
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