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64 Taiwan Development Perspectives 2009
The level of education of a nation can be indicated
by the ratio of people completing senior high school
education or above by age groups to its total population.
The ratio also indicates how popular its secondary and
higher education is. The ratio was 67.7 percent for
those aged 25-64 in Taiwan in 2007, lower than in Japan,
South Korea, the United States and Germany and
on a par with the United Kingdom, Australia and
France. That indicates Taiwan is a late developed country.
The ratio stood at 89.3 percent for the 25-34 age
group, at 76.8 percent for the 35-44 age group, at 54.3
percent for the 45-54 age group, and at 34 percent for
the 55-64 age group in Taiwan in 2007. The percentage
was higher for the first two age groups in Japan and
South Korea and for the last two in the United States
and Germany. (See Table 3.)
Table 3. Ratios of People with Secondary Education or Higher to Population in 2005
Unit:%
Age group
25-64 25-34 35-44 45-54 55-64
Countries
Taiwan /2005 64.2 87.0 71.3 49.7 29.8
Taiwan /2006 65.9 88.4 73.9 52.1 31.5
Taiwan /2007 67.7 89.3 76.8 54.3 34
Japan 84 94 94 82 65
South Korea 76 97 88 60 35
United States 88 87 88 89 86
United Kingdom 67 73 67 65 60
France 66 81 71 60 51
Germany 83 84 85 84 79
Australia 65 79 66 61 50
Source: Department of Statistics, Ministry of Education, 2008a, p.15.
Table 4 shows the ratios of people with higher
education to the total population in the nine countries.
Those completing junior college education in Taiwan
outnumber their counterparts in all other countries except
Japan. The ratio for those with university education
in Taiwan stood at 18.5 percent for the 25-64 age
group, higher than in Germany and France, but lower
than in Japan, South Korea, the United States, the
United Kingdom and Australia. The percentage was
higher for the 25-34 age group in Taiwan but lower for
all other groups, indicating the Republic of China
started promoting higher education late.