Education
Statistics
This section presents articles on pre-primary, primary and secondary education, with tables, maps, and graphs. All articles were originally published on my blog on international education statistics.
Pre-primary education
- Pre-primary education (25 July 2005)
Primary education
- Regional distribution of children out of school (12 March 2008)
- 115 million children out of school (20 March 2006)
- Primary school enrollment in 2004 (7 September 2006)
- Primary school enrollment in 2002/03 (22 May 2005)
- Primary school enrollment in 2001/02 (15 March 2005)
- Gender disparity in primary school (20 March 2005)
- Regional trends in primary school enrollment, 1980-2000 (27 March 2005)
- Trends in primary school enrollment, 1970-2004 (29 September 2006)
- Primary school gross and net enrollment (24 April 2005)
- Primary completion rate 2002/03 (11 April 2006)
- Years of schooling and literacy: Can everyone with primary education read and write? (27 November 2006)
- Years of schooling and literacy, part 2 (7 December 2006)
- UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2007 (29 July 2007)
- Universal primary education by 2015: A goal out of reach? (13 January 2008)
- Survival rate to the last grade of primary school (11 February 2008)
- Global population of primary school age, 2000-2015 (3 March 2008)
- A view inside primary schools (27 July 2008)
- UN Millennium Development Goals Report 2008 (17 October 2008)
- Pupil/teacher ratio in primary school (26 October 2008)
- Population structure and children out of school (8 February 2009)
- Disparities in primary school attendance by ethnicity, language or religion (1 March 2009)
- Disparities in secondary school attendance by ethnicity, language or religion (15 March 2009)
- NER, GER and universal primary education (29 September 2009)
Secondary education
- Secondary school enrollment in 2002/03 (1 June 2005)
- Secondary school enrollment in 2001/02 (2 April 2005)
- Gender disparity in secondary school (9 April 2005)
- Regional trends in secondary school enrollment, 1980-2000 (20 April 2005)
- Pupil/teacher ratio in secondary school (16 November 2008)
Primary and secondary education
- School life expectancy (1 May 2005)
- Repetition rates in primary and secondary school (9 May 2005)
- Primary and secondary school enrollment (11 July 2005)
- Transition from primary to secondary education (18 July 2005)
- Education data from household surveys (22 August 2005)
- National wealth and school enrollment (18 September 2005)
- UNICEF priority countries for girls' education (24 October 2005)
- Maps with international education statistics (6 February 2006)
- Millennium Development Goal regions and UNICEF regions (20 August 2006)
- EFA Development Index: Assessing progress toward Education for All (14 November 2006)
- "The State of the World's Children 2007" by UNICEF: Gender disparity in primary and secondary school (24 December 2006)
- Official school ages: primary, secondary, and compulsory education (27 January 2007)
- Global trends in primary and secondary education, 2000-2004 (27 February 2007)
- Education disparity in South Asia (12 October 2008)
- Education disparity trends in South Asia (1 November 2008)
- Regional disparities in school life expectancy (31 October 2009)
Literacy
- Adult literacy rates (9 July 2007)
- Youth literacy rates (15 July 2007)
- Disparity between adult and youth literacy (22 July 2007)
- Disparity between male and female literacy rates (7 August 2007)
- Adult literacy in Sub-Saharan Africa (10 May 2008)
- Literacy data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (1 June 2008)
- Adult literacy in 2007 (15 June 2008)
General education data
- UNESCO releases data from 2006 education survey (30 June 2007)
- Official MDG targets and indicators (4 February 2008)
- UNICEF releases new MICS survey data (24 February 2008)
- UNESCO releases data from 2007 education survey (18 May 2008)
- National wealth and years of education (3 August 2008)
- Household wealth and years of education (24 August 2008)
- Education and democracy (20 December 2008)
- Release of 2008 education data by UIS (27 November 2008)
- MICS Compiler by UNICEF (30 December 2009)
- Age distribution in household survey data (28 February 2010)
Child labor
- Child labor: economic activity and household chores (7 September 2008)
- Child labor and school attendance (5 October 2008)
Publications
- Education country profiles by UNICEF (25 March 2007)
- Global Education Digest 2007 (22 October 2007)
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2008 (3 December 2007)
- UNICEF statistical review: Progress for Children (16 December 2007)
- The State of the World's Children 2008 by UNICEF (27 January 2008)
- Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey blog (23 November 2008)
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2009 (8 December 2008)
- Global Education Digest 2008 (28 December 2008)
- The State of the World's Children 2009 (1 February 2009)
- Global Education Digest 2009 (31 July 2009)
- EFA Global Monitoring Report 2010 (31 January 2010)
Country studies
- Bolivia
- Primary school attendance in Bolivia (19 April 2006)
- Secondary school attendance in Bolivia (27 May 2006)
- Child labor and school attendance in Bolivia (30 June 2006)
- Child labor and school attendance in Bolivia, part 2 (4 August 2006)
- Brazil
- School attendance in Brazil (8 November 2008)
- Educational attainment in Brazil since 1920 (24 January 2009)
- India
- Primary school attendance in India (30 August 2005)
- Secondary school attendance in India (26 September 2005)
- Educational attainment in India, 1950-2000 (10 October 2005)
- Primary school completion in India, 1950-2000 (18 October 2005)
- India has 21 million children out of school (13 November 2007)
- Primary school attendance in India in 2006 (19 November 2007)
- Primary school attendance by state in India (9 December 2007)
- Secondary school attendance in India in 2006 (20 January 2008)
- Nepal
- Nepal: trends in primary education, 1980-2004 (10 March 2007)
- Primary and secondary school attendance in Nepal (1 May 2007)
- Caste, ethnicity, and school attendance in Nepal (1 June 2007)
- Primary school attendance in Nepal, 1996-2006 (14 August 2007)
- Secondary school attendance in Nepal, 1996-2006 (26 September 2007)
- Nigeria
- Primary school attendance in Nigeria (31 October 2005)
- Secondary school attendance in Nigeria (16 November 2005)
- Age and level of education in Nigeria (14 December 2005)
- Household wealth and school attendance in Nigeria (21 January 2006)
- Adult literacy in Nigeria (5 April 2008)
- Self-reported and tested literacy in Nigeria (13 April 2008)
- United States
- Poverty and educational attainment in the United States (6 September 2005)
- Poverty and educational attainment in the United States, part 2 (12 September 2005)
- Achievement gap between black and white students in the United States (9 May 2009)