Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education was 90.8% in 2010. ▼ Falling

Latest (2010)
90.8%
World rank
5th
of 144 countries
All-time high
98.6%
in 1965
All-time low
90.8%
in 2010
Years of data
11
1960–2010

Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan, 1960–2010

0204060801001960198520101960: 98.51965: 98.61970: 98.51975: 98.51980: 98.51985: 98.51990: 96.31995: 96.32000: 93.72005: 93.72010: 90.8

Source: Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.

Analysis

Afghanistan recorded 90.8% for barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in 2010. That is the lowest value across all 11 years on record.

That represents a change of down 3.1% over ten years.

Over the whole period, barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan peaked at 98.6% in 1965 and was at its lowest, 90.8%, in 2010.

Afghanistan ranks 5th of 144 countries on this measure, in the top 10%.

The long-run direction has been consistently falling across the 11 years of available data.

Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan, year by year

Annual values for Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan, 1960 to 2010.
Year Value Change
1960 98.5%
1965 98.6% +0.1%
1970 98.5% -0.0%
1975 98.5% -0.0%
1980 98.5% -0.0%
1985 98.5% -0.0%
1990 96.3% -2.2%
1995 96.3% +0.0%
2000 93.7% -2.7%
2005 93.7% +0.0%
2010 90.8% -3.1%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1960s 98.5% 98.5% 98.6% 2
1970s 98.5% 98.5% 98.5% 2
1980s 98.5% 98.5% 98.5% 2
1990s 96.3% 96.3% 96.3% 2
2000s 93.7% 93.7% 93.7% 2
2010s 90.8% 90.8% 90.8% 1

Countries ranked near Afghanistan

  1. 2 Sierra Leone 93.7% compare
  2. 3 Mozambique 92.0% compare
  3. 4 Mali 91.2% compare
  4. 6 Iraq 90.5% compare
  5. 7 Niger 90.4% compare
  6. 8 Gambia 87.4% compare

See the full ranking of 144 places →

More reference data data for Afghanistan

All data for Afghanistan →

Frequently asked questions

What is barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan?
Barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan was 90.8% in 2010, according to Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/.
What is the highest barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education recorded in Afghanistan?
The highest recorded value was 98.6% in 1965.
What is the lowest barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education recorded in Afghanistan?
The lowest recorded value was 90.8% in 2010.
How does Afghanistan rank for barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education?
Afghanistan ranks 5th out of 144 countries with data for 2010.
Is barro-lee: percentage of population age 70-74 with no education rising or falling in Afghanistan?
Over the last ten years it is down 3.1%. The long-run trend across the full record is falling.
Where does this Afghanistan data come from?
The figures come from Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/, published as part of Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 11 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan. Statizoid, drawing on Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/. Retrieved 01 September 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/barro-lee-percentage-of-population-age-70-74-with-no-education/afghanistan/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/barro-lee-percentage-of-population-age-70-74-with-no-education/afghanistan/">Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education in Afghanistan</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Barro-Lee: Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education
Source
Robert J. Barro and Jong-Wha Lee: http://www.barrolee.com/
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
144 places, 1,584 data points, 1960–2010
Last refreshed

Percentage of population age 70-74 with no education