The bar chart depicts how many years both genders took at school, while two pie charts illustrate the percentage of people in Singapore who became significantly more educated from 2000 to 2010.
Overall, what stands out in the picture is that this was an upward trend in the school attendance for Singaporean men and women. Furthermore, the level of education in this nation was unstable over ten years with more people pursuing higher education.
Evidently, the median years that Sigaporean male adult spent at school topped the list at just over 9 years in 2000, after which it gradually increased to nearly 11 years in the final year. Meanwhile, before the figure for Singaporean female adults climbed to 10 years in 2010, it remained unchanged at 8 years in 2000 and 2002. There was a narrowing of the educational gender gap to less than one year at the end of the survey period, compared to the beginning year.
It is clear that the proportion of diploma and professional qualification held the lion’s share at 27,7%, which rose by 6% after a decade. At the same time, the level of people pursuing university qualification considerably doubled, from 21% to 44,1%, which surpassed the chart level in 2000. A similar pattern could be seen in the figures for the below secondary and the secondary, which dropped from 23,7% and 27,6% in 2000 to 8,3% and 13,9% in the final year, respectively.