The bar chart illustrates the percentage of people in the United Kingdom without any qualifications in 2009, divided by age group and gender.
Overall, the proportion of people without qualifications increased with age. Older age groups had significantly higher percentages of people without qualifications, particularly among women.
For the 17–19 age group, about 8% of men and 7% of women had no qualifications. In the 20–24 and 25–29 groups, the numbers were still low, about 9–10% for both men and women. In the 30–39 and 40–49 age groups, the numbers went up. Around 12–15% of people had no qualifications, and women had a little higher percentage than men. The biggest number was in the oldest group (50–59 for women and 50–64 for men). About 23% of men and 24% of women had no qualifications.
In conclusion, younger people had more education, while many older people in the UK did not have any qualifications.