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Table 18 Aggregate indicators: descriptive statistics

From: Pathways from school to work in the developing world

Region

Country

Log GDP

Pop growth

Poverty rate

Minimum wage

Unemp. Insurance

Years comp. education

Asia and the Pacific

Cambodia

7.99

1.80

10.05

0

0

Nepal

7.68

1.17

23.74

0.94

0

Samoa

8.63

0.78

.

0.36

0

8.00

Vietnam

8.54

1.05

2.44

0.60

1

9.00

Average

 

8.30

1.16

7.77

0.60

0.68

9.00

Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Armenia

8.93

0.25

1.75

0.25

1

11.00

Kyrgyz Rep.

8.04

1.98

5.11

0.12

1

9.00

Macedonia, FYR

9.36

0.07

0.51

1

9.00

Moldova, Rep.

8.42

−0.01

0.23

0.39

1

9.00

Russian Fed.

10.07

0.22

0.17

1

10.00

Ukraine

9.05

−0.23

0

0.32

1

11.00

Average

 

9.73

0.17

0.61

0.21

1

10.18

Latin America and Caribbean

Brazil

9.59

0.86

3.75

0.31

1

14.00

El Salvador

8.92

0.68

2.53

0.49

0

9.00

Jamaica

9.06

0.27

0.37

0

6.00

Peru

9.34

1.28

2.89

0.34

0

12.00

Average

 

9.53

0.90

3.61

0.32

0.84

13.52

Middle East and North Africa

Egypt

9.28

1.64

0

1

9.00

Jordan

9.34

2.21

0.08

0.39

10.00

OPT

 

Tunisia

9.28

1.00

0.74

0.54

0

9.00

Average

 

9.29

1.61

0.49

0.08

0.88

9.06

Sub-Saharan Africa

Benin

7.46

2.68

51.61

0.52

0

6.00

Madagascar

7.22

2.79

87.67

0.74

1

5.00

Tanzania

7.45

3.03

43.48

0.65

1

7.00

Togo

7.20

2.59

52.46

1.34

0

10.00

Uganda

7.22

3.34

37.78

0.02

0

7.00

Average

 

7.33

3.02

50.92

0.51

0.57

6.72

Tot. average

 

9.00

1.18

14.68

0.34

0.81

10.37

S.d.

 

0.94

0.98

22.28

0.26

0.40

2.64

Europe

Austria

10.70

0.52

0.26

1

 

Belgium

10.61

0.60

0.41

1

 

Denmark

10.65

0.40

0.00

1

 

Finland

10.57

0.47

0.38

1

 

France

10.52

0.53

0.35

1

 

Germany

10.67

0.24

0.00

1

 

Greece

10.11

−0.55

0.29

1

 

Ireland

10.71

0.18

0.37

1

 

Italy

10.44

0.49

0.46

1

 

Portugal

10.15

−0.52

0.29

1

 

Spain

10.36

−0.24

0.31

1

 

United Kingdom

10.52

0.63

0.27

1

 

Average

 

10.51

0.32

0.27

1

 
  1. Notes. See Table 17 in the Appendix for details of definitions and sources