II-60b: Humanities Degrees as a Share of All Master's and Professional Degrees Awarded, by OECD Member Country, 2018
* The horizontal axis of this graph does not extend to 100%, as this would make it difficult to compare nations. In no nation do humanities degrees constitute more than a small percentage of all degrees. Percentages include professional practice doctorates. See 鈥淎bout the Data鈥 for the disciplines grouped by the data collector under the heading of 鈥渉umanities.鈥
Source: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), OECD.Stat Extracts (online data analysis tool), . This information is gathered by the OECD from member countries on an annual basis via the 鈥淯OE鈥 (UIS/OECD/EUROSTAT) data collection. Data analyzed and presented by the 亚色影库app鈥 Humanities Indicators ().
To arrive at meaningful comparisons among countries that have substantially different educational systems, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) uses the (ISCED), which was created by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in the early 1970s to facilitate efforts to aggregate and present international education statistics.
The disciplines UNESCO includes within the humanities are 鈥渞eligion and theology,鈥 鈥渇oreign languages and cultures (living or 鈥榙ead鈥 languages and their literatures, area studies),鈥 鈥渘ative languages (current or vernacular language and its literature),鈥 and 鈥渙ther humanities (interpretation and translation, linguistics, comparative literature, history, archeology, philosophy, ethics).鈥 (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 鈥鈥 [Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2012], 73).
Data were obtained by navigating to and selecting on the left sidebar menu 鈥淓ducation and Training鈥 > 鈥淓ducation at a Glance鈥 > 鈥淪tudents, access to education and participation鈥 > 鈥淕raduates by Field.鈥 Humanities Indicator staff further customized and then exported the data extract using the controls below the page title.
