Release of 2008 education data by UIS

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has announced the release of new education statistics for the year 2008. For 70 countries, new data on primary education are available at the UIS Data Centre. All indicators were calculated with new population estimates from the World Population Prospects 2008 by the UN Population Division. As part of the new data release, all historical estimates in the UIS education database were also revised.

External links

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
  
• UIS Data Centre
• Official announcement of UIS data release
• United Nations Population Division
• World Population Prospects 2008

Related articles

• UNESCO releases data from 2007 education survey
• Global Education Digest 2009

Friedrich Huebler, 27 November 2009, Creative Commons License
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