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Item	Unit	Latest Period	Latest Data	% Change (Y‑o‑Y) 1/	Previous Period Data	% Change (Y‑o‑Y) 2/
Education, Language Spoken and Literacy 3/
Literacy Rate (among residents aged 15 yrs & over)	%	2019	97.5	na	97.3	na
Males	%	2019	98.9	na	98.9	na
Females	%	2019	96.1	na	95.9	na
% with Post-Secondary Qualifications (among residents aged 25 years & over) 4/	%	2019	57.3	na	55.8	na
Males	%	2019	61.3	na	60.4	na
Females	%	2019	53.6	na	51.5	na
Item	Unit	Latest Period	Latest Data	% Change (Y‑o‑Y) 1/	Previous Period Data	% Change (Y‑o‑Y) 2/
Mean Years of Schooling (among residents aged 25 years & over) 4/	Years	2019	11.2	na	11.1	na
Males	Years	2019	11.6	na	11.6	na
Females	Years	2019	10.8	na	10.6	na
Annual Output - University Graduates 5/	Number	2018	18,997	2.5	18,537	16.6
Annual Output - Polytechnic Graduates 6/	Number	2018	24,239	-6.1	25,805	-1.8

na not available or not applicable
1 Refers to % change in latest period over the same period in the previous year.
2 Refers to % change in the previous period over the same period in the previous year.
3 Refers to the resident population.
4 Refers to residents who are not attending educational institutions as full-time students. The data include those who are upgrading their qualifications through part-time courses while working.
5 Refers to graduates from university first degree courses from national University of Singapore (NUS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore Management University (SMU), Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) (for 2015).
6 Refers to graduates from polytechnic diploma courses from Singapore Polytechnic, Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Temasek Polytechnic, Nanyang Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic.