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Share of residents whose highest education is elementary or junior high school

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Education · National ranking

Junior-high-or-below shareAs of 2020Official latest

Share of residents whose highest education is elementary or junior high. Higher where the population is older (a cohort effect), so it reflects demographics, not better-or-worse.

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1Aomori
22.0%
2Iwate
20.7%
3Akita
19.0%
4Miyazaki
18.8%
5Niigata
18.8%
6Kochi
18.2%
7Shimane
18.2%
8Nagasaki
18.1%
9Kagoshima
16.9%
10Fukushima
16.9%
11Yamagata
16.7%
12Gifu
16.6%
13Tokushima
16.4%
14Fukui
16.4%
15Kumamoto
16.1%
16Wakayama
16.0%
17Hokkaido
15.8%
18Saga
15.5%
19Shizuoka
15.5%
20Mie
15.4%

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47 prefectures

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2020

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SourceStatistics Bureau, MIC — Social Indicators by Prefecture (E: Education)· Yearly

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