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...
To achieve quality education for all, as highlighted in Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and the Education 2030 agenda, governments in most countries need to do more to address persistent...
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, most governments worldwide have implemented policies to contain the disease's spread. While incurring high economic costs, restrictive procedures...
New data on out-of-school children and youth
A new policy paper released jointly by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report shows that the global...
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics show that 617 million children and adolescents worldwide are not achieving minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics. The figure signals...
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UIS releases data for reference year 2016
New figures on the number of children out of school worldwide reveal that, despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has...
To mark International Women’s Day (March 8) the UIS is releasing a new edition of the UNESCO eAtlas of Gender Inequality in Education.
The eAtlas provides a wide range of sex-disaggregated data...