Education country profiles by UNICEF

In addition to its main web site at unicef.org, UNICEF maintains a separate web site at childinfo.org with a wide range of statistics on issues related to children and women. In the area of education, the Childinfo web site provides a complete set of country profiles with current statistics for 206 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Complete profiles have three sections, with past trends, the current state of the education system, and prospects for 2015. The section on trends contains up to six graphs with data from 1980 to the present.

• Pre-primary school gross and net enrollment rates
• Primary school net enrollment and net attendance rates
• Secondary school net enrollment and net attendance rates
• Survival rate to grade 5
• Pupil/teacher ratio
• Education expenditures as percent of GDP and as percent of total government expenditures

The section on the current state of the education system lists up to two tables and six graphs.

• Statistics from the education database of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): population; official school ages; preschool, primary school, and secondary school enrollment; intake, transition rates, repetition, and completion rates; teaching staff; education expenditures
• Statistics from a recent household survey, usually a Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) or Demographic and Health Survey (DHS): primary and secondary school attendance; intake, transition, repetition, and completion rates
• Three graphs on disparity in primary school attendance - by gender, area of residence, and household wealth - with data from a recent household survey
• Three graphs on gender disparity in secondary school - by gender, area of residence, and household wealth - with data from a recent household survey

For countries with household survey data, two final graphs show school attendance rates between 2000 and 2015, the target year for the UN Millennium Development Goals.

• Predicted primary school net attendance rate, by gender
• Predicted secondary school net attendance rate, by gender

The level of detail of the country profiles varies, depending on the availability of education statistics for each country. The profile for North Korea, shown in Figure 1, has only two pages and contains virtually no data. In contrast, the country profile for the Philippines, shown in Figure 2, has seven pages with fourteen graphs and two tables and provides data for all indicators listed above.

Figure 1: Education country profile for North Korea

Source: UNICEF Childinfo web site, childinfo.org, March 2007.

Figure 2: Education country profile for the Philippines

Source: UNICEF Childinfo web site, childinfo.org, March 2007.

On the Childinfo web site, all countries are grouped by UNICEF region. The majority of the data in the country profiles is from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and from MICS and DHS surveys.

Related articles

• "The State of the World's Children 2007" by UNICEF: Gender disparity in primary and secondary school
• Final release of data from UNESCO's 2005 education survey
• Education data from household surveys
• Millennium Development Goals regions and UNICEF regions

External links

• UNICEF education country profiles
• UNICEF Childinfo web site
• Main UNICEF web site

Friedrich Huebler, 25 March 2007, Creative Commons License
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