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The Role of Education in Reducing Inequality Between Countries.

Having the opportunity to study your higher education is considered a luxury in some countries. As educational opportunities are not equal among all countries. Education has a huge impact on all life aspects, as it increases the awareness, better health, higher life expectancy, better economy and many other life aspects would get affected.

Education is one of the forces that shape the development and growth of the countries. It has a huge impact on many aspects, as it shifts the nation to be more productive and advanced. The impact of tertiary education will be visualized and discussed below.
1. Awareness & Empowerment:
Education provides knowledge to the public; advancing their thoughts and enriches the ambition. This has been proven by the bar chart as it reflects the positive relation between tertiary education and human development.

2. Health and wellbeing:
Providing better and more opportunities for nations to education and to have it accessible to everyone has been approved the positive correlation on the development of the population of the country. It enhances the health aspect of the country as we can see in the charts that countries that are more developed due to the high percentage of enrolled students in tertiary education seem to have infant and maternal mortality, less out of pocket expenditures on health. And a noticeable positive correlation with life expectancy. As education is one of the main influences on a country’s development, it impacts the health sector. Also, we can see that a higher number of physicians are available per thousand in contrast with less developed ones.

3. Economy and development:
The economy of a country is built over the willingness of the population to work and achieve. Having a purpose and the will to reach. We can see that developed and educated countries tend to have higher workforce percentage, the gross domestic income (GDP) is higher than the one of undeveloped countries. Additionally, the minimum wage is much higher.

By acknowledging education as the main foundation to development and enhancement. It will be possible to foster a perfect environment for empowering, flourishing, and competitive country striving for enhancement and development.

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Posted on

November 19, 2023

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