5 Most Educated Countries in Asia

3. South Korea

Literacy Rate (2018): 99%

Tertiary Enrollment (2021): 100%

Mean Years of Schooling (2022): 12.6

Average Rank: 8

Approximately 37% of the children in South Korea were able to reach the ‘advanced benchmark’ in TIMSS 2019. The country also ranked in the top six scorers for all subjects in both TIMSS 2019 and PISA 2022.