World Education Statistics 2024

The World Education Statistics document is composed of an introduction that describes broadly the SDG4 monitoring framework, 11 thematic chapters, annexes, and a glossary. Each chapter focuses on one SDG 4 target and its more relevant indicator(s) - in general global indicator(s):

• Chapter 1: Primary and secondary education - SDG Target 4.1
• Chapter 2: Early childhood - SDG Target 4.2
• Chapter 3: Technical, vocational and tertiary education - SDG Target 4.3
• Chapter 4: Skills - SDG Target 4.4
• ]Chapter 5: Parity - SDG Target 4.5
• Chapter 6: Literacy and numeracy - SDG Target 4.6
• Chapter 7: Sustainable development and global citizenship - SDG Target 4.7
• Chapter 8: Learning environment - SDG Target 4.a
• Chapter 9: Scholarships - SDG Target 4.b
• Chapter 10: Teachers - SDG Target 4.c
• Chapter 11: Financing education – Expenditure in education - SDG 1.a.2 and FFA

The World Education Statistics publication is also accompanied by a user-friendly interactive visualization allowing users to view data, when available, for every indicator. (See online)

The education levels in this publication are classified according to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) (see Annex 1). ISCED provides a comprehensive framework for organizing education programmes and qualifications by applying uniform and internationally agreed definitions to facilitate comparisons of education systems across countries.

The list of targets and global and thematic indicators used to monitor education is included in Annex 2.

Information on how the UIS database is compiled, including data sources, inputs to indicators from external data sets, and means of accessing the information are presented in Annex 3.1