Education of Israel

Adult literacy rate in Israel is 97.8%. Male literacy is 98.7%. Female literacy is 95.8%. Therefore, male literacy and female literacy differ by 2.9%. Government expenditure on education is 5.9% of GDP. The education index of Israel is 0.854 - formal education levels are high, secondary education is a standard for most of the population; higher education is highly available and widespread due to the fact that graduates are economically demanded, and in many such countries having a higher education is also becoming a default option. People in Israel speak the Arabic, and Hebrew languages.

English language

In Israel, around 1% of the population or 6,205,000 people speak English. 100,000 of Israel's population call English their first language. 6,105,000 of Israel's population use English as either foreign or second language.