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The World Bank’s Human Capital Index measures “the amount of human capital that a child born today can expect to attain by age 18”. It expresses this as a value between zero and one.

An economy in which the average worker achieves both full health and full education potential will score a value…

The number of Zimbabwean students studying in the United States increased by 2.5% to 1,377 in the 2019-20 academic year, according to the 2020 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange. Zimbabwe remains the 6th leading country of origin for students in the United States from sub…

In 2019, there was one primary school teacher for every 37 pupils in Zimbabwe. In high schools, the ratio was one teacher for every 23 pupils.

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The country’s 2015 Demographic and Health Survey estimated that 94.4% of women aged 15 to 49 and 94.1% of men in this age group were literate. Respondents were considered literate if they had attended school higher than the secondary level or could read a sentence or part thereof.A 2014 estimate of…