Editing Economy of Australia (section)

====Education====
{{Main|Education in Australia|Tertiary education in Australia}}
School attendance is compulsory in Australia, from the age of 5 up until approximately 16 (although it varies between each state and territory).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/Pages/overview.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110328132033/http://www.deewr.gov.au/Schooling/Pages/overview.aspx|archive-date=28 March 2011|title=Schooling Overview|publisher=Australian Government, Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations}}</ref> Australia also has an adult literacy rate that was estimated to be 99% in 2003.<ref name=cialittab>{{cite web|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html#136|title=Literacy|work=[[The World Factbook]]|access-date=10 October 2013|archive-date=24 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161124171442/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2103.html#136|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the [[Programme for International Student Assessment]], Australia regularly scores among the top five of thirty major developed countries (member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development). In 2018 there were 525,054 international students in Australia, comprising a market of 32,2&nbsp;billion A$.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-18/australia-hosting-unprecedented-numbers-international-students/9669030|title=Australia hosting unprecedented numbers of international students|date=18 April 2018|publisher=ABC News|location=Australia|access-date=18 June 2018}}</ref>