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This technical workshop, organized by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the UNESCO Regional Office in Bangkok, focuses on enhancing national SDG 4 data ecosystems, advancing the shared vision of ...
Photo Credits: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport (MoEYS) AMPL-a contributes significantly to Cambodia’s national learning assessment system by enabling the country to independently or with ...
Education in Africa is major priority for UNESCO and the UIS. In response, the UIS develops indicators to help governments, donors and UN partners better address the challenges. For example, the UIS ...
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO License. Education SDG Global and Thematic Indicators (last update: February 2025) Background Information on Education ...
According to data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 3 in 4 children in Africa complete primary school. However, in countries where data is available, less than 2 in 10 children reach ...
Throughout the review process, the specific digital literacy competences and proficiency levels valued by adults were found to depend largely on their specific country and economic sector contexts. As ...
Education Data Release – September 2023 New education data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) released this week track country progress towards Sustainable Development Goal objectives for ...
New data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) show that there are still about 262 million – or one out of every five – children, adolescents and youth between the ages of 6 and 17 out of ...
These indicators and more are proposed in the Practical Guide to Implement Surveys on ICT Use in Primary and Secondary Schools – a joint publication by the UIS and Cetic.br (Regional Center for ...
The UIS has published updated data on the human and financial resources devoted to R&D for 161 countries and territories. This includes the results of the UIS 2017 R&D Statistics Survey, as well as ...
Girls and women are underrepresented in STEM education and STEM careers. This disparity is alarming as these are often referred to as the jobs of the future – driving innovation, social wellbeing and ...
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 ...