IntroductionUsing Education Statistics acquired from the World Bank Open Data (Kaggle), we analyzed two different studies:1) PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) results in science, mathematics and reading (from the 2006 to 2015 in three-year intervals).2) Wittgenstein report results in highest level of educational attainment (from the 2010 to 2100 in five-year intervals)We analyzed 50 various countries all over the world to find the ones that Estonia is most similar to.

ConclusionOur findings showed that similar countries are not geographically similar places: cluster analysis showed, that Estonia is most similar with countries like Austria, Canada, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Latvia and USA. We also compared Estonia with Latvia and Finland (neighboring countries), Denmark and Australia (countries with highest Education Index (data collected by UN)) and Korea (country, that cluster analysis showed that Estonia is similar to). All the data was based on the year 2015. The analysis showed, that Estonia is similar to all of these mentioned countries (depending of the measurement).

PISA - cluster analysisUsing the PCA to reduce dimensionality, four different clusters were made - science, reading and math proficiency distributions by attained levels and the mean scores of the same three subjects.

Countries and their affiliated clusters - Estonia is most similar to Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea

CountryBulgaria Chile

Portugal Russia Slovak Republic Spain

Norway Poland Slovenia Sweden United Kingdom

Macao Netherlands New Zealand Switzerland

Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg

Croatia Greece Israel Hungary

Austria Czech Republic Iceland Ireland

Belgium Denmark France Germany Australia

Canada Estonia Finland Hong Kong Japan Korea

Mexico Montenegro Romania Thailand Turkey Uruguay

Jordan Tunisia

Indonesia Qatar

Brazil Colombia

mean performance mathematics, reading, science

3 2 2 2 4 4 4 4 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 3

15-year-olds by mathematics proficiency level

3 2 4 0 2 2 2 4 4 4 0 0 3 1 1 1

15-year-olds by mathematics proficiency level

0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 4 1 1

15-year olds by science proficiency level

1 3 3 0 3 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 4 2 2 2

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PISA - comparing with various countries Using the same data that we used when clustering, we selected six countries based on various indicators (mentioned in conclusion), and compared each measurement independently.

Highest level of educational attainment - cluster analysisPCA was used to reduce the dimensionality of the features. After that the data was clustered using Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering. Based on that Estonia is most similar to United States, Germany, Austria, and Latvia.

Overview of year 2015, sorted by the percentage of the total population by post secondary educational attainment. Estonia ranks quite high here.

Comparing with various countriesPlot in the right shows data about Estonia, percentage of the total population by highest level of educational attainment, also including predictions about future. Other plots use the same features to compare Estonia with other countries.