New data on the world’s out-of-school children reveal little or no progress for more than a decade, with about 258 million children, adolescents and youth out of school in 2018: around one-sixth of...
SDG 4 Data Digest 2019 explores the data methodologies needed to track progress and better direct policies and resources
It is not too late to reach the world’s education goal. At least, not yet. In...
, By Alasdair Mc William, Head of Unit, Household Surveys and Equity, UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Education systems have been severely disrupted by the global coronavirus pandemic. Each country on...,
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is excited to announce its annual Spring Data Refresh aimed at filling gaps and increasing coverage for SDG indicators related to education and research and...,
DefinitionSDG Indicator 4.5.4: Total initial funding from government (central, regional, local), private (households and other private) and international sources for a given level of education (pre-...
DefinitionSDG Indicator 4.5.6: Expenditure on education (from public, private, international sources) expressed as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a given financial year.The...
The world as a whole gathers only about half of the data needed to monitor progress towards the global education targets, according to a new UIS report, Laying the Foundation to Measure...
In a recent blog, we noted that there is currently a global multiplicity of strong initiatives in generating better data on learning outcomes, oriented at Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). And...
