Table

Level of education for men and women 16 years and older.¹
	2011	2016
	Total	Total	Males	Females
¹1 For many immigrants Statistics Norway has no information about their level of education. From 2014, figures include an estimated level of education for missing values for these immigrants. See About the statistics about this and definitions of education levels. Tertiary vocational education was prior to 2016 included in upper secondary education.
Total	3 999 434	4 265 963	2 140 607	2 125 356
Below upper secondary education	1 108 171	1 124 832	572 397	552 435
Upper secondary education	1 638 641	1 599 911	854 124	745 787
Tertiary vocational education		120 468	78 502	41 966
Higher education, short	838 283	990 743	404 592	586 151
Higher education, long	261 827	401 253	217 481	183 772
Of this:
Ph.D.	24 842	43 777	25 670	18 107
Unknown or no completed education	127 670	28 756	13 511	15 245
	Per cent
Below upper secondary education	28.6	26.5	26.9	26.2
Upper secondary education	42.3	37.8	40.2	35.3
Tertiary vocational education		2.8	3.7	2.0
Higher education, short	21.7	23.4	19.0	27.8
Higher education, long	6.8	9.5	10.2	8.7
Of this
Ph.D.	0.6	1.0	1.2	0.9