World Education Statistics, UIS’s new annual series, highlights SDG 4 data across 11 themes and offers an interactive tool to explore indicators by country.
World Education Statistics, 2025
UNESCO Institute for Statistics,Education Data and Statistics Commission 2025
World Education Statistics, UIS’s new annual series, highlights SDG 4 data across 11 themes and offers an interactive tool to explore indicators by country.
World Education Statistics is part of a series of publications that the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) produces on an annual basis. It summarizes the education data published by the UIS and serves as a fundamental resource and essential guide for policy-makers, researchers and analysts, as well as anyone interested in education data and statistics.
The publication draws on the wealth of information produced by UIS statisticians and provides highlights for each of the targets of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4). Statistics are presented in eleven thematic chapters, each dedicated to one SDG 4 target and its most relevant indicators, covering primary and secondary education; early childhood; technical, vocational and tertiary education; skills for work; parity; literacy and numeracy; sustainable development and global citizenship; learning environment; scholarships; teachers; and financing education. An additional chapter provides comprehensive data tables.
The report is accompanied by a user-friendly interactive visualization that allows users to explore, when available, country-level data for all SDG 4 indicators.