The adult Tuvaluan population includes all those aged 15 years and over.
- In 2001, 56 percent of Tuvaluan adults held a formal educational qualification. The equivalent figure for the Pacific adult population was 64 percent.
- One in four among the Tuvaluan adult population (40 percent) listed a school qualification as their highest qualification in 2001, while a further 16 percent held a post-school qualification. By contrast, 32 percent of the New Zealand adult population held a post-school qualification in 2001.
- Although Tuvaluan males were more likely than their female counterparts to have a school qualification as their highest qualification (44 percent and 36 percent respectively), Tuvaluan females were more likely to hold post-school qualifications (18 percent and 15 percent respectively).
- Young Tuvaluan adults were more likely to hold a formal qualification than their older counterparts, as can be seen in figure 5.1. In 2001, 76 percent of Tuvaluan people aged 20–24 years and 65 percent of those aged 25–34 years held a school qualification, compared with 58 percent of those aged 35–44 years and 37 percent of those aged 45 years and over.
