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Topic 04 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Micronesia: Education & Knowledge
How far does a country's schooling carry its children?
Micronesia is placed 186th of 198 countries on education & knowledge in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Out-of-School Rate, Primary 23.06 (2024); Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary 54.75 (2024).
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Education & Knowledge
186th
of 198 countries placed
Placed from 2 of 4 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
- 23.06Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)
- 54.75Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary, 2024Children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%)
- —Upper Secondary Completion Rate, 2025No reading for this country
- —Government Spending on Education, 2023No reading for this country
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Micronesia on education & knowledge — one vote each. Every value is the publisher’s own, read at the edition the Country Index 2026 used — or, for a survey-based key, each country’s latest reading; the grey ticks are every other country it was compared with, lowest on the left.
Key 1 of 4
Out-of-School Rate, Primary
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Why it is a key: Primary-age children who are not in school at all: the floor of an education system.
Latest reading per country, 2014–2024 · Micronesia’s is from 2024 · CC BY-SA 4.0
23.06
Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)
Lower is better
Micronesia: 23.06. Across the 192 countries at their latest reading, values run from 0.004 (United Arab Emirates) to 65.6 (Equatorial Guinea); the world median is 3.691.
- World median
- 3.691
- Best in Micronesia
- 1.334 Palau
Each grey tick is one of 192 countries at its latest reading, 2014–2024.
Key 2 of 4
Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Why it is a key: Whether children take part in organised learning in the year before primary school — whether an education system reaches them before it starts.
Latest reading per country, 2014–2024 · Micronesia’s is from 2024 · CC BY-SA 4.0
54.75
Children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%)
Higher is better
Micronesia: 54.75. Across the 187 countries at their latest reading, values run from 3.411 (Yemen) to 100 (United Arab Emirates); the world median is 85.9.
- World median
- 85.9
- Best in Micronesia
- 93.45 Nauru
Each grey tick is one of 187 countries at its latest reading, 2014–2024.
Key 3 of 4
Upper Secondary Completion Rate
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Why it is a key: How far a schooling system carries the young people who get through primary — the only key here that measures anything past childhood.
2025 edition · data for 2025 · CC BY-SA 4.0
No reading
Upper secondary completion rate (%)
Higher is better
UIS publishes no 2025 figure for Micronesia, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 164 countries in this edition, values run from 2.13 (South Sudan) to 99.27 (South Korea); the world median is 64.87.
- World median
- 64.87
- Best in Micronesia
- 49.35 Nauru
Each grey tick is one of 164 countries in the 2025 edition.
Key 4 of 4
Government Spending on Education
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Why it is a key: What a state chooses to spend on education, as a share of its economy — the input, where the other two keys measure reach.
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
No reading
Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)
Higher is better
UIS publishes no 2023 figure for Micronesia, so the standing rests on the other keys.
Across the 123 countries in this edition, values run from 0 (Somalia) to 16.39 (Kiribati); the world median is 3.709.
- World median
- 3.709
- Best in Micronesia
- 16.39 Kiribati
Each grey tick is one of 123 countries in the 2023 edition.
02Over time
Which way Micronesia is moving
Each key’s published value, edition by edition, beside the world median. The Country Index 2026 is the first edition of the standing, so the standing itself has no history to chart yet.
Out-of-School Rate, Primary
Out-of-school rate, primary age (%) · lower is better
MicronesiaWorld median
Micronesia rose from 12.99 in 2014 to 23.06 in 2024; the world median went from 3.904 to 3.691.
Every year’s figures
Year Micronesia World median 2024 23.06 3.691 2023 23.94 3.393 2022 20.02 3.002 2021 19.07 3.330 2020 19.06 2.678 2019 10.80 2.758 2018 6.15 2.439 2017 12.87 2.907 2016 11.59 2.954 2015 17.64 3.052 2014 12.99 3.904 2013 — 3.413 2012 — 3.408 2011 — 3.626 2010 — 3.491 2009 — 3.577 2008 — 3.878 2007 — 4.029 2006 — 4.338 2005 — 4.571 2004 — 3.791 2003 — 4.412 2002 — 4.144 2001 — 4.051 2000 — 8.642 Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary
Children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%) · higher is better
MicronesiaWorld median
Micronesia fell from 68.8 in 2016 to 54.75 in 2024; the world median went from 87.91 to 85.9.
Every year’s figures
Year Micronesia World median 2024 54.7 85.9 2023 51.5 87.6 2022 55.1 87.7 2021 56.7 87.0 2020 55.6 88.3 2019 69.7 88.8 2018 73.3 89.6 2017 69.5 87.4 2016 68.8 87.9 2015 — 88.2 2014 — 89.2 2013 — 88.0 2012 — 85.4 2011 — 86.2 2010 — 86.1 2009 — 84.8 2008 — 85.8 2007 — 86.7 2006 — 84.0 2005 — 82.2 2004 — 81.8 2003 — 78.3 2002 — 80.0 2001 — 80.8 2000 — 66.3 Government Spending on Education
Government expenditure on education (% of GDP) · higher is better
MicronesiaWorld median
Micronesia rose from 6.707 in 2000 to 11.56 in 2020; the world median went from 3.886 to 4.406.
Every year’s figures
Year Micronesia World median 2023 — 3.7092 2022 — 4.0570 2021 — 4.2611 2020 11.6 4.4056 2019 10.7 4.1407 2018 9.9 4.2159 2017 12.7 4.1401 2016 13.8 4.2342 2015 12.4 4.2386 2014 12.2 4.2005 2013 12.3 4.3493 2012 11.7 4.0348 2011 — 3.9987 2010 — 4.1396 2009 — 4.6638 2008 — 4.4226 2007 — 4.1717 2006 — 4.0593 2005 — 4.0557 2004 — 3.9745 2003 — 4.1595 2002 — 4.0173 2001 — 4.1002 2000 6.7 3.8861
03In context
Micronesia beside its neighbours
A position reads best beside the countries around it. Every position below is a place among all 198 countries on education & knowledge, never a place within the region.
Micronesia and Micronesia
Micronesia has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. The standing is each country’s place among all 198 placed on the topic; the other columns are the publishers’ own values, read at the edition the standing used.
| Country | Standing | Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryOut-of-school rate, primary age (%) | Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before PrimaryChildren one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%) | Upper Secondary Completion RateUpper secondary completion rate (%) | Government Spending on EducationGovernment expenditure on education (% of GDP) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Marshall Islands | 57th | 1.476 | 91.61 | — | — |
 Nauru | 66th | 2.995 | 93.45 | 49.35 | 5.777 |
 Palau | 78th | 1.334 | 90.55 | — | 3.437 |
 Kiribati | 116th | 8.71 | — | 21.42 | 16.39 |
| Micronesia | 186th | 23.06 | 54.75 | — | — |
 Guam | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 Northern Mariana Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
“—” means the publisher gives no reading for that country in that edition. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed.
Across Micronesia
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 198.
Placed either side on education & knowledge
The countries immediately above and below Micronesia in the topic’s list.
04Context, no vote
Where Micronesia is ahead of the world, and behind
12 more statistics filed under education & knowledge, published in full and deliberately given no vote in the standing. Select a row for the publisher, the rank and the links.
Ahead of the world median2
Statistics on which Micronesia does better than the middle country measured.
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, PrimaryUIS · 2024 · world median 20.6717.4520.67▲ Improved since 2016
Micronesia: 17.45 · world median 20.67 · Primary pupils per qualified teacher (headcount basis). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 8.244 to 284.7; lower is better.
Position 59th of 92 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of PrimaryUIS · 2023 · world median 43.844.5543.8No earlier reading
Micronesia: 44.55 · world median 43.8 · Pupils at the end of primary reaching minimum proficiency in mathematics (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 1.8 to 93.42; higher is better.
Behind the world median9
Statistics on which Micronesia does worse than the middle country measured.
Learning-Adjusted Years of SchoolWorld Bank Group · 2020 · world median 7.9417.1867.941▲ Improved since 2018
Micronesia: 7.186 · world median 7.941 · Learning-adjusted years of school (0–14). World Bank Group, 2020 edition, data for 2020.
Published values in that edition run from 2.207 to 12.81; higher is better.
Position 100th of 172 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of PrimaryUIS · 2023 · world median 60.0839.1960.08No earlier reading
Micronesia: 39.19 · world median 60.08 · Pupils at the end of primary reaching minimum proficiency in reading (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 2 to 98.78; higher is better.
Mean Years of SchoolingUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 9.9337.3339.933▼ Worsened since 2013
Micronesia: 7.333 · world median 9.933 · Mean years of schooling (adults 25+). UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 1.412 to 14.3; higher is better.
Position 138th of 193 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Harmonized Test ScoresWorld Bank Group · 2020 · world median 414.32379.9414.32▲ Improved since 2018
Micronesia: 379.9 · world median 414.32 · Harmonized test score (TIMSS-equivalent points; 300 = minimum, 625 = advanced attainment). World Bank Group, 2020 edition, data for 2020.
Published values in that edition run from 304.92 to 575.27; higher is better.
Position 127th of 172 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Expected Years of SchoolingUNDP Human Development Report Office · 2023 · world median 13.3411.5413.34▼ Worsened since 2013
Micronesia: 11.54 · world median 13.34 · Expected years of schooling. UNDP Human Development Report Office, 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 5.635 to 21.69; higher is better.
Position 144th of 195 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary AgeUIS · 2024 · world median 6.34322.426.343No real change since 2014
Micronesia: 22.42 · world median 6.343 · Out-of-school rate, lower secondary age (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0.011 to 79.71; lower is better.
Position 24th of 116 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = worst. The publisher ranks no country on this.
Primary Schools with ElectricityUIS · 2024 · world median 10081.94100▲ Improved since 2018
Micronesia: 81.94 · world median 100 · Primary schools with access to electricity (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1.246 to 100; higher is better.
Primary Schools with Internet for TeachingUIS · 2024 · world median 98.667.63998.66▼ Worsened since 2019
Micronesia: 7.639 · world median 98.66 · Primary schools with internet access for teaching (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 100; higher is better.
Pre-Primary Net Enrolment RateUIS · 2024 · world median 65.9321.7465.93▼ Worsened since 2016
Micronesia: 21.74 · world median 65.93 · Net enrolment rate, pre-primary (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 1.779 to 99.85; higher is better.
Position 112th of 120 — derived here by ordering the published values, 1st = best. The publisher ranks no country on this.
No better end1
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Scholarly ArticlesOurResearch · 2025 · world median 2,240152,240No real change since 2022
Micronesia: 15 · world median 2,240 · Articles with at least one author at an institution in the country (full counting). OpenAlex (OurResearch), 2025 edition, data for 2025.
Published values in that edition run from 1 to 1,094,890.
No current reading for Micronesia
Academic Freedom Index, Adult Literacy Rate, Bachelor's or Higher Attainment (last 2014), Female Share of Researchers, Female Share of STEM Graduates, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment (last 1982), Government Funding per Primary Student, Government Spending on Education (last 2020), Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Learning Poverty, Lower Secondary Completion Rate, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary, Nobel Prize Laureates by Country of Birth, Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary (last 2000), PISA Mathematics Performance, PISA Reading Performance, PISA Science Performance, Primary Completion Rate, Qualified Teachers in Primary Education (last 2023), Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, School Life Expectancy, Secondary School Enrolment (last 2005), Share of Graduates from ICT Programmes, Tertiary Enrolment Ratio (last 2000), Trust in Scientists, Upper Secondary Attainment (last 2014), Upper Secondary Completion Rate, Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion and Youth Literacy Rate. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
05Country Index 2026
Education & Knowledge among Micronesia’s 9 topics
Education & Knowledge is Micronesia’s 8th best-placed topic of 9. Strongest first; each marker sits at the position divided by that topic’s field, so fields of different sizes compare fairly.
- Democracy & Civil Liberties43rd of 1983/4 keys
- Risk & Resilience128th of 1933/4 keys
- Health & Wellbeing149th of 2002/4 keys
- Development & Human Capitaljoint 147th of 1963/3 keys
- Governance & Institutions158th of 1942/4 keys
- Poverty & Inequality137th of 1592/3 keys
- Food & Agriculture171st of 1842/4 keys
- Education & Knowledge186th of 1982/4 keys
- Digital & Technology195th of 1982/4 keys
No standing on Economy & Innovation, Work & Labour, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Peace & Security, Mobility & Trade, Energy: too few of those topics’ key statistics are published for this country.
06The top of the list
Who leads on education & knowledge
The three countries placed highest of 198, and the leaders Micronesia can most readily be measured against.
1
United Arab EmiratesWestern Asia
1st of 198 · 2 of 4 keys
Photo: Unknown author · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
2
GreeceSouthern Europe
2nd of 198 · 3 of 4 keys
Photo: User:Ggia derivative work: Jjtkk · CC BY-SA 3.0, greyscale
3
PolandEastern Europe
3rd of 198 · 3 of 4 keys
Photo: Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich) · CC BY 3.0, greyscale
Placed highest nearby
Highest placed on all 4 keys
Moldova7th4/4 keysHighest in Oceania
Australia18th3/4 keysHighest in Micronesia
Marshall Islands57th2/4 keysThis page
Micronesia186th2/4 keys
Positions out of 198 placed on the topic. A country needs readings on enough keys to be placed, and the top of the list is often held on fewer of them.
07Questions
Micronesia on education & knowledge: questions answered
Every answer is built from the numbers on this page, so none can say something the page does not.
How does Micronesia rank on education & knowledge?
Micronesia is placed 186th of 198 countries on Education & Knowledge in the Country Index 2026, from 2 of its 4 key statistics (Out-of-School Rate, Primary and Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary). The position is this site’s ordering of published statistics, not a rank any publisher printed.
What is the latest Out-of-School Rate, Primary figure for Micronesia?
23.06 in 2024 (out-of-school rate, primary age (%)), according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The world median in the same edition was 3.691.
What is the latest Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary figure for Micronesia?
54.75 in 2024 (children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%)), according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). The world median in the same edition was 85.9.
How have Micronesia’s education & knowledge figures changed?
Out-of-School Rate, Primary rose from 12.99 in 2014 to 23.06 in 2024; Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary fell from 68.8 in 2016 to 54.75 in 2024; Government Spending on Education rose from 6.707 in 2000 to 11.56 in 2020.
Which education & knowledge statistics are missing for Micronesia?
No current reading is published for Micronesia on Academic Freedom Index, Adult Literacy Rate, Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, Female Share of Researchers, Female Share of STEM Graduates, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, Government Funding per Primary Student, Government Spending on Education, Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Learning Poverty, Lower Secondary Completion Rate, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary, Nobel Prize Laureates by Country of Birth, Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, PISA Mathematics Performance, PISA Reading Performance, PISA Science Performance, Primary Completion Rate, Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, School Life Expectancy, Secondary School Enrolment, Share of Graduates from ICT Programmes, Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, Trust in Scientists, Upper Secondary Attainment, Upper Secondary Completion Rate, Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion and Youth Literacy Rate. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Keep reading
Explore further
Micronesia, topic by topic
Nearby, on education & knowledge
The key statistics, for every country
09Method
Method, sources and how to cite
What this topic does not measure
How much children actually learn is only partly covered. International test scores exist for a limited group of countries, and they are published here as context rather than used as a key, because a key must describe most of the world. Universities, research, and youth and adult literacy also appear as context.
How the Education & Knowledge standing is decided, step by step
A standing is a place in a list, not a mark out of anything. This one is part of the Country Index 2026, and it is worked out like this.
- A few key indicators decide it; the rest are context. 4 indicators on this topic are keys and 42 are charted alongside them without a vote. That split is the point: if every statistic voted, importing five more of one kind would quietly change what the topic is about.
- Each key is read at one edition. ⚠ The keys behind this standing do not all describe the same year — they run from 2023 to 2025, because publishers release on their own schedules. Read the standing as “how this country places now”, not as a snapshot of one year.
- Every country’s published value is turned into a place within that one key’s own field, and then expressed as a share of that field — how far down this key’s list the country sits, rather than how many countries are above it. Keys where a higher published number is worse (terrorism, hunger, disaster risk) are turned round first, so the good end is always the same end.
- Dividing by the field first is the whole reason this works. A place carries the size of its list inside it: 22nd of 44 and 108th of 215 are the same showing, and averaging the numbers 22 and 108 says loudly that they are not. Fields on this site run from about 44 countries to about 215, so averaging raw places would reward a country for happening to be measured in small ones. Dividing each place by its own field removes the size and leaves only the showing.
- The shares are averaged, plainly. One key, one vote — no key is weighted above another, because any weighting would be this site’s opinion presented as a measurement. Countries are then put in order by that average, and the average itself is never published. It is our arithmetic with nothing anchoring it, so printing it would invite it to be read as a measurement somebody made. The position it produces, the band, and the keys it was built from are all published instead — every one of them checkable against the tables on this page.
- A country needs 2 of this topic’s 4 keys — half, rounded up, and never fewer than 2. A standing built from one reading, printed beside one built from four, is two different things sharing a column heading. 198 countries clear the bar here.
- A key has to earn its vote every edition. It must measure at least 120 countries (below that it starts measuring who was surveyed rather than the world), it must not have more than 10% of its field tied at either end, and it must not repeat another key in the same topic — Spearman correlation above 0.92 counts as repeating. A topic needs at least 2 surviving keys to place anyone at all; this one has 4.
- A standing is relative, and the grouping is ours. It says where a country places against the others measured alongside it, so it moves when they move. The publishers listed on this page did not agree to be read together, and each measures its subject its own way: the underlying numbers are theirs, the ordering on top is this site’s — the same method as the rest of the Country Index, applied to one subject instead of all of them.
The key statistics and their licences
- Out-of-School Rate, Primary — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Upper Secondary Completion Rate — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), CC BY-SA 4.0
- Government Spending on Education — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), CC BY-SA 4.0
The other 12 statistics on this page come from 4 publishers, each named beside its numbers, with every edition and licence on the datasets pages.
The standing itself is part of the Country Index 2026, published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photographs
Micronesia’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Micronesia (banner) — User:Crescentmoon56, CC0
- United Arab Emirates — Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Greece — User:Ggia derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Poland — Ralf Lotys (Sicherlich), CC BY 3.0
Cite this page
Nations Inquiry (2026). Micronesia: Education & Knowledge — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/micronesia/education