What percent of their GNP does the average advanced country devote to education?
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GNP numbers are hard to come by.  As far as GDP goes, accoridng to the oft-cited OECD:\n\nUnited States: 5.08% public edu., 2.26% private edu.\nJapan: 3.47% public edu., 1.15% private edu.\nGermany: 4.28% public edu., .98% private edu.\nSouth Korea: 4.79% public edu., 3.41% private edu.\nFrance: 5.61% public edu., .38% private edu.\nSweden: 6.21% public edu., .21% private edu.\nCanada: 4.98% public edu., 1.31% private edu.\nAustralia: 4.53% public edu., 1.44 private edu.\nMexico: 5.12% public edu., 0.75% private edu.\nNetherlands: 4.51% public edu., .39% private edu.
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Gross National Product (GNP) is the total value of final goods and services produced in a year by a country's nationals (including profits from capital held abroad).\n\nGNP Top 10 (2004) (currency exchange rate) Country GNP ($ mill)\n1 United States $12,150,930\n2 Japan $4,749,910\n3 Germany $2,488,974\n4 United Kingdom $2,016,393\n5 France $1,858,731\n6 China $1,676,846\n7 Italy $1,503,562\n8 Canada $905,629\n9 Spain $875,817\n10 Mexico $703,080
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The more education the girls of a region receive, the lower the birthrate.\n\nEducation of women has led "developed" countries to have lower birth rates.\n\nThis education doesn't need to be about birth control - rather, just general education.  A literate woman, on average, has fewer children than an illiterate woman.\n\nAvailability of -- and education about -- contraception is also a factor. However, the education level of women is most important.
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Educated men and women
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32%.ther are many btr countries than that like bra,france.
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Well, they have a 40.2% literacy rate. Basic education is mandatory (usually elementary education) and free. Although the government uses 33% of its budget for education programs, only 80% of school-aged boys are enrolled in school, and only 77.3% of school-aged girls enroll. \n\nThere is a very low (but not documented, as far as I can find) graduation rate--many people drop out of school because western education is "irrelevant," and many drop out when they do not do well.
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31%\n\nhttp://www.unmarried.org/pressreleases/marriagerelease.html
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28% for bachelor's degree. You can read the details from the Census Bureau, linked below.
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None. Some, I think, are doing better than other...\nI would say Sweden, Norway, maybe Denmark and Iceland (they really give a lot of money per inhabitant to the rest of the world).\nBut even this attitude is selfish!
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According to a 1998 survey, Georgia had only 54% of its students graduate.  Iowa was the highest at 93%.
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8.125%\n\nIt's on page 51 of the document listed below.
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Roman Catholic 89.8% (about 75% practicing), Eastern Orthodox 1.3%, Protestant 0.3%, other 0.3%, unspecified 8.3% (2002)
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If the G7 countries are anything to go by then these countries belonging to the rich-country club would definitely be the 7 most developed countries in the world. The list will also be based on the level of industrialization, and the HDI (the human development index) a combined index of per capita GNI, adult literacy rate, infant mortality rate, life expectancy etc.\n\nHere is my list of 10 most developed countries in the world based on the level of industrialisation and the HDI index:\n\n1. USA\n2. United Kingdom\n3. Canada\n4. Japan\n5. France\n6. Germany\n7. Italy\n8. Norway - Iceland -Denmark - Sweden\n9. Netherlands - Belgium -Luxembourg\n10. Australia.\n\nThe reason that I group the Scandinavian countries is because their strength lies in their economies of scale derived from a collective population count, collective industrialisation and the freedom and ease of which the population intermingle within the group. Same goes with the Benelux countries. Australia has always had excellent HDI plus a high level of industrialisation.
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According to official statistics it is around 8%. Considering the size of the paralle economy and the weakness of the Govt Statistical Orgnization, I would say it is much higher.
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Poland:\nPolish 96.7%, German 0.4%, Belarusian 0.1%, Ukrainian 0.1%, other and unspecified 2.7% (2002 census) \n\nFor other countries: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
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From what I understand it's because they take education very seriously over there.  I heard that once that some children study for hours at a time.  They spend most of their adolescence studying to get into a university.
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This is a moot argument. There is no way possible to determine the average IQ of either group. It is a moving target there are always people switching between parties. There is probably no measurable difference.\n\nAs for an earlier comment about graduate students being liberals. That may be true for liberal arts students, but engineering, sciences, and business majors are by and large conservative. Also once people graduate and are out in the real world for a few years they tend to become conservative. My wife and I both have post graduate degrees and so do our sons. We are all conservative.