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Topic 04 of 18 · Country Index 2026
Turks and Caicos Islands: Education & Knowledge
How far does a country's schooling carry its children?
Turks and Caicos Islands is placed joint 48th of 198 countries on education & knowledge in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 4 key statistics. Readings behind it: Out-of-School Rate, Primary 0.133 (2024); Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary 98.36 (2024).
Share
Education & Knowledge
joint48th
of 198 countries placed
Placed from 3 of 4 key statistics
Not placed in the Country Index 2026 overall: measured on too few topics.
- 0.133Out-of-School Rate, Primary, 2024Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)
- 98.36Participation 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
- 2.688Government Spending on Education, 2023Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)
01The evidence
The 4 key statistics that decide it
Only these place Turks and Caicos Islands 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)
Latest reading per country, 2014–2024 · Turks and Caicos Islands’s is from 2024 · CC BY-SA 4.0
0.133
Out-of-school rate, primary age (%)
Lower is better
Turks and Caicos Islands: 0.133. 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 Caribbean
- 0.133 Turks and Caicos Islands
Key 2 of 4
Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Latest reading per country, 2014–2024 · Turks and Caicos Islands’s is from 2023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
98.36
Children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%)
Higher is better
Turks and Caicos Islands: 98.36. 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 Caribbean
- 98.36 Turks and Caicos Islands
Key 3 of 4
Upper Secondary Completion Rate
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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 Turks and Caicos Islands, 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 Caribbean
- 95.71 Barbados
Key 4 of 4
Government Spending on Education
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
2023 edition · data for 2023 · CC BY-SA 4.0
2.688
Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)
Higher is better
Turks and Caicos Islands: 2.688. 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 Caribbean
- 7.19 Montserrat
02Over time
Which way Turks and Caicos Islands 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
Turks and Caicos IslandsWorld median
Turks and Caicos Islands fell from 4.564 in 2000 to 0.133 in 2024; the world median went from 8.642 to 3.691.
Every year’s figures
Year Turks and Caicos Islands World median 2024 0.1 3.691 2023 — 3.393 2022 — 3.002 2021 5.0 3.330 2020 — 2.678 2019 — 2.758 2018 — 2.439 2017 6.3 2.907 2016 — 2.954 2015 8.9 3.052 2014 12.8 3.904 2013 — 3.413 2012 — 3.408 2011 — 3.626 2010 — 3.491 2009 3.7 3.577 2008 — 3.878 2007 — 4.029 2006 — 4.338 2005 9.8 4.571 2004 11.9 3.791 2003 21.0 4.412 2002 4.2 4.144 2001 — 4.051 2000 4.6 8.642 Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary
Children one year before primary entry age in organised learning (%) · higher is better
Turks and Caicos IslandsWorld median
Turks and Caicos Islands rose from 86.07 in 2000 to 98.36 in 2023; the world median went from 66.32 to 87.61.
Every year’s figures
Year Turks and Caicos Islands World median 2024 — 85.9 2023 98.36 87.6 2022 — 87.7 2021 91.32 87.0 2020 92.74 88.3 2019 97.58 88.8 2018 — 89.6 2017 — 87.4 2016 — 87.9 2015 — 88.2 2014 91.70 89.2 2013 — 88.0 2012 — 85.4 2011 — 86.2 2010 — 86.1 2009 94.24 84.8 2008 — 85.8 2007 — 86.7 2006 — 84.0 2005 89.40 82.2 2004 86.10 81.8 2003 78.57 78.3 2002 95.91 80.0 2001 89.06 80.8 2000 86.07 66.3 Government Spending on Education
Government expenditure on education (% of GDP) · higher is better
Turks and Caicos IslandsWorld median
Turks and Caicos Islands fell from 4.719 in 2000 to 2.688 in 2023; the world median went from 3.886 to 3.709.
Every year’s figures
Year Turks and Caicos Islands World median 2023 2.69 3.7092 2022 2.78 4.0570 2021 3.28 4.2611 2020 2.46 4.4056 2019 2.12 4.1407 2018 2.74 4.2159 2017 2.47 4.1401 2016 2.91 4.2342 2015 3.09 4.2386 2014 2.75 4.2005 2013 2.80 4.3493 2012 2.70 4.0348 2011 3.17 3.9987 2010 — 4.1396 2009 — 4.6638 2008 — 4.4226 2007 — 4.1717 2006 — 4.0593 2005 2.54 4.0557 2004 — 3.9745 2003 4.73 4.1595 2002 5.07 4.0173 2001 4.84 4.1002 2000 4.72 3.8861
03In context
Turks and Caicos Islands 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.
Turks and Caicos Islands and Caribbean
Turks and Caicos Islands has no land border, so the table compares it with its sub-region. Standing among all 198; the key columns are the publishers’ own values.
| 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 11th | 0.59 | 98.04 | — | 6.4583 |
 Aruba | =41st | 1.755 | 96.09 | — | — |
 Jamaica | 43rd | 4.341 | 94.69 | 92 | 5.6545 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | =48th | 0.133 | 98.36 | — | 2.6877 |
 Dominica | 50th | 3.952 | 98.03 | — | 4.6942 |
 Cuba | 69th | 4.684 | 97.06 | 74.13 | — |
 Antigua and Barbuda | 86th | 1.711 | 94.08 | — | 3.1051 |
 Trinidad and Tobago | 93rd | 7.164 | 96.69 | 84.85 | 3.2336 |
 Montserrat | 96th | 6.686 | 72.92 | — | 7.1902 |
 Saint Lucia | 97th | 7.012 | 91.73 | 94.25 | 2.7421 |
 Dominican Republic | 98th | 4.928 | 93.47 | 64.68 | 3.7606 |
 Barbados | 107th | 17.6 | 78.17 | 95.71 | 3.7754 |
 Grenada | 110th | 4.941 | 74.96 | — | 5.1254 |
 Puerto Rico | 118th | 13.25 | 89.02 | — | 4.2690 |
 Sint Maarten | =123rd | 6.781 | — | — | 3.9236 |
 Curaçao | 128th | 27.89 | 77.65 | — | 5.3007 |
 Cayman Islands | 130th | 5.169 | 96.16 | — | 1.5702 |
 British Virgin Islands | 161st | 26.97 | 82.84 | — | 3.1728 |
 Bahamas | =176th | 15.88 | 47.25 | — | 2.7419 |
 Haiti | 181st | — | 76.02 | 18.48 | 0.9646 |
 Anguilla | not placed | — | 89.69 | — | — |
 Saint Kitts and Nevis | not placed | — | — | — | 3.4973 |
 Saint Martin | not placed | — | — | — | — |
 United States Virgin Islands | not placed | — | — | — | — |
“—”: no published reading in that edition. What a standing is
Across Caribbean
Every country in the sub-region, by its place among all 198.
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines11th
- Aruba=41st
- Jamaica43rd
- Turks and Caicos Islands=48th
- Dominica50th
- Cuba69th
- Antigua and Barbuda86th
- Trinidad and Tobago93rd
- Montserrat96th
- Saint Lucia97th
- Dominican Republic98th
- Barbados107th
- Grenada110th
- Puerto Rico118th
- Sint Maarten=123rd
- Curaçao128th
- Cayman Islands130th
- British Virgin Islands161st
- Bahamas=176th
- Haiti181st
- Anguillanot placed
- Saint Kitts and Nevisnot placed
- Saint Martinnot placed
- United States Virgin Islandsnot placed
Placed either side on education & knowledge
The countries immediately above and below Turks and Caicos Islands in the topic’s list.
Italy46th
Argentina47th
Tunisia=48th- Turks and Caicos Islands=48th
- Dominica50th
China51st
Hungary52nd
04Context, no vote
Where Turks and Caicos Islands is ahead of the world, and behind
11 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 median6
Statistics on which Turks and Caicos Islands does better than the middle country measured.
Youth Literacy RateUIS · 2024 · world median 98.2299.9498.22No earlier reading
Turks and Caicos Islands: 99.94 · world median 98.22 · 15–24 year-olds who can read and write (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 36.7 to 100; higher is better.
Secondary School EnrolmentUIS · 2024 · world median 93.19119.7393.19▲ Improved since 2014
Turks and Caicos Islands: 119.73 · world median 93.19 · Gross secondary enrolment ratio (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 19.87 to 158.55; higher is better.
Position 10th of 109 · derived.
Primary Schools with Internet for TeachingUIS · 2024 · world median 98.6610098.66▲ Improved since 2018
Turks and Caicos Islands: 100 · 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 65.9389.2865.93▼ Worsened since 2014
Turks and Caicos Islands: 89.28 · 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 29th of 120 · derived.
Qualified Teachers in Primary EducationUIS · 2024 · world median 93.6699.2693.66▲ Improved since 2014
Turks and Caicos Islands: 99.26 · world median 93.66 · Primary teachers with the minimum qualifications their country requires (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2024 edition, data for 2024.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 100; higher is better.
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, PrimaryUIS · 2024 · world median 20.6718.2720.67▲ Improved since 2018
Turks and Caicos Islands: 18.27 · 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 55th of 92 · derived, 1st = worst.
Behind the world median1
Statistics on which Turks and Caicos Islands does worse than the middle country measured.
Government Funding per Primary StudentUIS · 2022 · world median 17.818.66117.81▼ Worsened since 2015
Turks and Caicos Islands: 8.661 · world median 17.81 · Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2022 edition, data for 2022.
Published values in that edition run from 3.771 to 34.57; higher is better.
Position 64th of 68 · derived.
Level with the median, or no median to compare1
Primary Schools with ElectricityUIS · 2024 · world median 100100100No real change since 2018
Turks and Caicos Islands: 100 · 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.
No better end3
These describe the shape of a country — more is not better or worse, only different — so they are never ahead or behind.
Share of Graduates from ICT ProgrammesUIS · 2023 · world median 5.6017.4075.601Moved since 2021
Turks and Caicos Islands: 7.407 · world median 5.601 · Tertiary graduates from ICT programmes (% of all graduates). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 0 to 17.19.
Scholarly ArticlesOurResearch · 2025 · world median 2,240512,240Moved since 2022
Turks and Caicos Islands: 51 · 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.
Female Share of STEM GraduatesUIS · 2023 · world median 35.316.6735.3Moved since 2021
Turks and Caicos Islands: 16.67 · world median 35.3 · STEM graduates who are women (%; 50 = parity). UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2023 edition, data for 2023.
Published values in that edition run from 8.333 to 55.96.
No current reading for Turks and Caicos Islands
Academic Freedom Index, Adult Literacy Rate, Bachelor's or Higher Attainment (last 2019), Expected Years of Schooling, Female Share of Researchers, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment (last 2023), Harmonized Test Scores, Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary (last 2022), Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Learning Poverty, Learning-Adjusted Years of School, Lower Secondary Completion Rate, Mean Years of Schooling, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Primary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Primary, Nobel Prize Laureates by Country of Birth, Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age (last 2023), Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary (last 2022), Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary (last 2023), PISA Mathematics Performance, PISA Reading Performance, PISA Science Performance, Primary Completion Rate, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, School Life Expectancy (last 2023), Tertiary Enrolment Ratio (last 2023), Trust in Scientists, Upper Secondary Attainment (last 2019), Upper Secondary Completion Rate and Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion. Listed rather than hidden, so the page can be checked against it.
“Position · derived” is this site’s ordering of the published values, 1st = best unless the row says otherwise; the publisher ranks no country on it. Rank, position and standing
05Country Index 2026
Education & Knowledge among Turks and Caicos Islands’s 3 topics
Education & Knowledge is Turks and Caicos Islands’s 2nd best-placed topic of 3. Strongest first, each marker at its share of that topic’s field.
- Health & Wellbeing39th of 2003/4 keys
- Education & Knowledgejoint 48th of 1983/4 keys
- Energy146th of 1652/3 keys
No standing on Governance & Institutions, Economy & Innovation, Work & Labour, Development & Human Capital, Environment & Sustainability, Gender & Equality, Democracy & Civil Liberties, Peace & Security, Risk & Resilience, Mobility & Trade, Food & Agriculture, Poverty & Inequality, Digital & Technology: 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 Turks and Caicos Islands 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 Americas
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines11th3/4 keysThis page
Turks and Caicos Islands=48th3/4 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
Turks and Caicos Islands 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 Turks and Caicos Islands rank on education & knowledge?
Turks and Caicos Islands is placed joint 48th of 198 countries on Education & Knowledge in the Country Index 2026, from 3 of its 4 key statistics (Out-of-School Rate, Primary, Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary and Government Spending on Education). 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 Turks and Caicos Islands?
0.133 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 Turks and Caicos Islands?
98.36 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 Turks and Caicos Islands’s education & knowledge figures changed?
Out-of-School Rate, Primary fell from 4.564 in 2000 to 0.133 in 2024; Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary rose from 86.07 in 2000 to 98.36 in 2023; Government Spending on Education fell from 4.719 in 2000 to 2.688 in 2023.
Which education & knowledge statistics are missing for Turks and Caicos Islands?
No current reading is published for Turks and Caicos Islands on Academic Freedom Index, Adult Literacy Rate, Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, Expected Years of Schooling, Female Share of Researchers, Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, Harmonized Test Scores, Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, Intergenerational Persistence in Education, Learning Poverty, Learning-Adjusted Years of School, Lower Secondary Completion Rate, Mean Years of Schooling, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Mathematics, End of Primary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Lower Secondary, Minimum Proficiency in Reading, End of Primary, Nobel Prize Laureates by Country of Birth, Out-of-School Rate, Lower Secondary Age, Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, Participation in Organised Learning One Year Before Primary, PISA Mathematics Performance, PISA Reading Performance, PISA Science Performance, Primary Completion Rate, Research and Development Spending, Researchers per Million Inhabitants, School Life Expectancy, Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, Trust in Scientists, Upper Secondary Attainment, Upper Secondary Completion Rate and Wealth Parity Index, Lower Secondary Completion. They are listed rather than hidden, so the evidence on the page can be checked against it.
08Method
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
A standing is this site’s ordering, named with its edition — never a publisher’s rank. 4 key statistics vote, one vote each; every country’s published value becomes a place within that key’s own field, the places are averaged, and the average is never published. A country needs 2 of the 4 keys to be placed.
The education & knowledge method, step by stepHow every standing on this site is built
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 11 statistics on this page come from 2 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
Turks and Caicos Islands’s banner and the countries placed highest, from their profiles: Wikimedia Commons, shown in greyscale, each used under the licence named.
- Turks and Caicos Islands (banner) — Tim Sackton derivative work: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 2.0
- 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). Turks and Caicos Islands: Education & Knowledge — standing and statistics, Country Index 2026. https://nationsinquiry.com/countries/turks-and-caicos-islands/education