EDUCATION & SCIENCE
Compare education and science rankings on world maps
Participation, international student mobility, funding, research talent and inventions measure different parts of a knowledge system. Compare them without treating one as a complete score.
01 / HOW TO READ
Separate inputs from outputs and adjust for scale
GDP shares describe investment relative to the economy, while per-million measures adjust for population. Patent counts do not capture the quality of every invention, so they are more useful when read beside researchers and research spending.
02 / CHOOSE A RANKING
Education & science ranking maps
Open a theme to compare countries on a ten-level heat map and check the complete ranking, country values, reference years and sources.
Education spending (% of GDP)
This is government education spending as a share of GDP, not spending per student or a direct measure of outcomes.
View the education spending (% of gdp) ranking mapResearchers per million people
This adjusts researcher counts for population size but not for fields, output or working conditions.
View the researchers per million people ranking mapR&D spending (% of GDP)
This is research and development spending as a share of GDP, not its absolute amount or effectiveness.
View the r&d spending (% of gdp) ranking mapPatent applications per million people
This counts resident patent applications per million people and does not measure patent quality.
View the patent applications per million people ranking mapTertiary enrollment
This is a gross enrollment ratio, so it includes students outside the standard age group and can exceed 100%.
View the tertiary enrollment ranking mapInbound international students
This counts internationally mobile students hosted by the country; country size and definitions of origin affect comparisons.
View the inbound international students ranking map03 / KEEP EXPLORING