Monday 21 September 2015

Astonishment: Which country has the most engineering graduates?


A worker helps put together a pipeline during the construction of the Olmos Irrigation Project in Peru's northwestern region of Lambayeque, March 15, 2013. The Olmos Irrigation Project next year will start pumping billions of gallons of water onto a nearby 170-square-mile patch of desert in the Olmos Valley near the Pacific coast. The $500 million project is the most ambitious yet in a handful of massive irrigation works that are turning large swaths of Peru’s historically parched coast into profitable agricultural fields. Odebrecht drilled a 12-mile (20-kilometer) hole through the Andes to pull water from where it has always been abundant - the Amazon watershed to the east - to the arid west coast of Peru that is home to two-thirds of the population and 80 percent of economic activity but only 2 percent of its freshwater. Picture taken March 15, 2013. REUTERS/Enrique Castro-Mendivil (PERU - Tags: BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION ENVIRONMENT AGRICULTURE) - RTR3F7FP

A diverse and highly skilled pool of talent is a key driver of economic growth, allowing economies to make the most of their human capital.
The World Economic Forum’s Human Capital Report 2015 provides data for 124 economies across a range of indicators, including the number of graduates in engineering, manufacturing and construction. See table below:


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The Russian Federation tops the list with nearly half a million graduates a year in the field. The United States follows in second, with Iran completing the top three.
A minimum of 100,000 graduates are needed annually to make the top 10, highlighting the popularity of the field.
The data for this ranking is taken from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.   

 Story sourced from www.agendaweforum.org
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