What is new in September 2025 data release? The following indicators have been added to this data release: The female share of tertiary graduates from STEM programmes. The female share of teachers ...

What is the 2025 UNESCO Framework for Cultural Statistics (FCS)?

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has just updated its global database with more recent country-level data to monitor progress towards the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4).

According to UIS data, less than 30% of the world’s researchers are women. To reduce this gap, we must go beyond the numbers and identify the qualitative factors that deter women from pursuing careers ...

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..

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 come ...

For the first time, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released data showing that almost one-third of young teens worldwide have recently experienced bullying. The new figures are part of ...

Explore the United Arab Emirates' data and statistics on education, science, culture, and communication through UNESCO's Institute for Statistics.

About 263 million children and youth are out of school, according to new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). This is equivalent to a quarter of the population of Europe. The total ...

Definition Diverse set of technological tools and resources used to transmit, store, create, share or exchange information. These technological tools and resources include computers, the Internet ...

From the cocoa farmer in Ghana using a mobile phone to market crops to the nurse in Sweden using telehealth to check on patients at home – digital literacy is considered an essential set of skills ...

DefinitionSDG Indicator 4.c.4: Average number of pupils per qualified teacher at each level of education (pre-primary, primary, lower and upper secondary education) in a given academic year.A ...