As can be seen from Figure 8.7. South Korea a much more equal distri- bution of education than India. For example. in the sample year 1990. well over half of the population of India had received no schooling at all In South Korea, less than 10% had received no schooling. Yet both countries were producing significant education Gini coefficient numbers of Ph.D. diplomates One may also derive an again by analogy with the derivation of the Gini coefficient for income inequality examined in Chapter 5: it is given by the area A above the education Lorenz curve, divided by the whole area A B below the 45-degree line of perfect equality: Clearly, India had a much higher educational inequality as measured by the education Gini (in fact. the Gini was 0.69) than South Korea did (0.22). Plotting the Gini coefficient for education against the average years of education, as in Figure 8.8, we see that there is no inverted-U curve for education. Instead, educational inequality tends to fall as average years of education in the population rises. Nonetheless, for a given average years of schooling. some countries such as Sri Lanka have managed relatively equal access to education and others such as India relatively unequal access, as can also be seen in Figure 8.8.