UIS provides educational statistics for more than 200 countries and territories, covering all education levels and addressing key policy issues, such as gender parity, teachers and financing. It provides country profiles, which summarise key education and literacy statistics, as well as detailed statistical tables. The UIS site also provides tools that allow users to generate customised statistical tables on education (literacy, early childhood, primary, secondary and higher education, teachers and education finance). UIS is also the official source of data used to monitor Education 2030 and the education-related goals and targets of the Sustainable Development Agenda as well as related international initiatives.
Edstats data comes from a wide variety of sources including The World Bank, UIS, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Edstats includes: enrolment, progression, completion indicators; learning outcomes data; data on education inequities and expenditures on education. Country profiles are available as well as thematic maps for selected education indicators. Through the data query system, it is possible to select specific data and to create maps, charts and tables based on the initial query.
UOE covers the outputs of educational institutions, the policy levers that shape educational outputs, the human and financial resources invested in education, structural characteristics of education systems, and the economic and social outcomes of education, and learning and training throughout life.
This annual publication is the authoritative source for accurate and relevant information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances, and performance of education systems in the OECD’s 35 member countries, as well as a number of partner countries. It includes data on private education.
EPDC provides education data at national and sub-national levels as well as in-depth research on issues and challenges facing education in developing countries. Each country page displays a country profile with information on the education system and key statistics on education as well as analysis on education issues. It is possible to search for data related to each country by selecting relevant data such as level of education, specific indicators, gender, rural/urban, sub-national units and years.
SITEAL includes data on access to schools, completion rates and the levels achieved. It also provides information on the relationship between education and the labour market as well as between education and life conditions. Country profiles are also available. Information is in Spanish.
WIDE brings together data from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys from over sixty countries to enable users to compare education attainment between countries, and between marginalised groups within countries, according to factors that are associated with inequality, including wealth, gender, ethnicity and location. Users can create maps, charts, infographics and tables from the data, to download, print or share online.
The HDI combines indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income, which aim at measuring development. The education component of the HDI measures mean of years of schooling for adults aged 25 years and expected years of schooling for children of school entering age.
The European Commission provides comparable data, statistics and indicators on education mainly for the European countries but also for some other countries. The main data source is the set of joint UOE (UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), OECD, Eurostat) questionnaires on education and other Eurostat-specific tables. The statistics refer to public and private education, full-time and part-time education disaggregated by level of education. The statistics cover enrolments, entrants, graduates, personnel, language learning and expenditure, continuing vocational education and lifelong learning.
Data on Southern and Eastern Africa is organised as interactive maps and graphs focusing on education indicators for access, education systems, expenditure, gender equality, out-of-school children, progression rates, school life expectancy, teachers, tertiary education, and quality.
The Learning Curve data bank provides a visual tool of internationally comparable education data, classified by education input indicators, education output indicators and socio-economic environment.
This barometer provides a comprehensive report on the quality of education and respect for labour rights in countries around the world. As well as examining all levels of education, from early childhood education to higher education, it explores a range of issues, such as academic freedom, gender equality, students with special needs, refugee and minority children, and child labour. It is possible to compare statistical data from two different countries.