The emerging nation in which the population has the highest average years of schooling (11.5) and the largest share of university grads (6.4 percent) is Russia, where the Soviet era legacy of excellence in science and technology education has yet to affect the economy. Russia is still dependent on raw materials, and although it has a few dynamic Internet companies, it lacks a tech sector to speak of and has been one the world’s slowest-growing economies in the 2010s.
