Year Less than 8 grades of primary school 8 grades of primary education Secondary education without G. C. E. and with qualification Secondary education with G. C. E. Tertiary education Total
and without qualification and with qualification bachelor or equivalent master or equivalenta
Total
2009 7.4 123.9 142.9 32.8 74.4 27.1 9.0 417.4
2010 10.2 132.3 156.5 37.8 88.8 29.6 13.9 469.1
2011 10.7 129.4 155.1 39.6 87.7 30.1 12.8 465.4
2012 9.5 127.1 153.3 45.7 90.1 32.2 14.9 472.8
2013 8.3 119.0 145.3 42.2 83.4 29.8 12.1 440.2
2014 7.8 97.0 104.5 35.4 63.2 24.5 10.5 342.9
2015 8.2 94.8 91.5 32.6 52.6 18.8 9.3 307.7
2016 5.9 73.3 69.1 28.2 37.1 12.0 8.8 234.5
2017 6.7 59.2 53.6 25.6 27.7 12.6 6.2 191.6
2018 5.4 53.5 46.3 21.6 27.3 10.1 7.7 171.8
2019 4.6 49.5 42.3 19.6 23.8 9.5 9.5 158.9
2020 4.5 53.5 54.3 26.3 35.0 13.7 10.4 197.6
2021 3.8 54.9 50.3 30.1 30.6 13.3 12.6 195.7
2022 3.4 56.5 45.5 19.9 29.1 12.4 9.5 176.3
2023 3.7 64.3 52.4 22.3 35.7 15.6 8.9 202.9
Male
2009 3.8 68.4 93.8 12.8 37.5 10.0 5.4 231.8
2010 4.5 74.8 105.9 12.7 42.6 13.4 7.8 261.7
2011 4.8 69.1 103.4 13.0 42.0 11.8 7.2 251.5
2012 5.1 68.6 103.1 20.0 45.3 12.7 7.3 262.1
2013 4.5 65.4 94.0 17.6 40.7 10.6 6.3 239.3
2014 3.8 51.8 67.2 13.5 31.1 9.8 4.6 181.7
2015 4.7 49.3 56.5 12.2 27.5 7.4 4.3 161.9
2016 3.4 41.0 42.4 11.4 19.9 3.7 5.6 127.5
2017 2.8 31.4 32.3 9.8 11.8 4.2 3.5 95.7
2018 29.3 28.9 8.2 13.1 4.8 88.1
2019 27.1 27.7 9.7 11.2 4.3 4.3 86.1
2020 2.8 28.6 35.5 9.4 18.4 4.3 5.2 104.2
2021 29.3 30.4 11.8 15.6 5.8 5.0 99.9
2022 32.0 30.1 8.2 15.7 5.0 4.2 96.6
2023 34.2 34.6 8.0 17.9 5.6 5.0 106.7
Female
2009 3.6 55.5 49.0 20.0 36.9 17.1 3.5 185.6
2010 5.7 57.5 50.6 25.1 46.1 16.2 6.1 207.4
2011 5.9 60.2 51.7 26.6 45.7 18.3 5.6 214.0
2012 4.4 58.4 50.2 25.7 44.8 19.5 7.6 210.7
2013 3.8 53.6 51.2 24.6 42.7 19.2 5.8 201.0
2014 4.0 45.2 37.3 21.8 32.1 14.8 5.9 161.1
2015 3.4 45.5 35.0 20.4 25.1 11.4 5.0 145.7
2016 32.3 26.7 16.8 17.1 8.4 3.2 107.0
2017 3.8 27.9 21.2 15.9 15.9 8.4 2.8 95.8
2018 3.3 24.2 17.3 13.4 14.2 5.4 5.9 83.7
2019 2.8 22.4 14.6 9.9 12.6 5.3 5.2 72.8
2020 24.8 18.9 16.8 16.7 9.3 5.1 93.4
2021 25.6 19.9 18.4 15.0 7.5 7.6 95.8
2022 24.5 15.4 11.7 13.5 7.4 5.3 79.7
2023 30.0 17.8 14.4 17.8 10.0 4.0 96.2

Footnotes

*Data of labour force survey refer to the population aged 15–74. Source: labour force survey, HCSO.
aIncluding doctoral or equivalent.
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