World Education Statistics, UIS’s new annual series, highlights SDG 4 data across 11 themes and offers an interactive tool to explore indicators by country. Launch of the 2026 Survey of Formal ...

LASER country profiles provide an overview of each country's education data ecosystem and evaluate its performance across various LASER components, offering country-specific insights through an ...

To provide a more comprehensive view of the financial and human resources countries invest in R&D, it is important to look beyond the SDG 9.5 R&D indicators. Additional policy-relevant R&D indicators ...

The "Mapping of Indicators to Assessments" dashboard provides a comprehensive overview of how global and thematic SDG 4 indicators are reflected in different types of assessments and questionnaires.

The SDG 4 indicators and sources page provides a comprehensive overview of the global and thematic SDG 4 indicators and the corresponding school-based or household-based assessments, including TIMSS, ...

Comparing the types of questions used across various large-scale learning assessments ...

The Disaggregations page outlines the importance of breaking down education data by key demographic and contextual variables to ensure inclusive and equitable monitoring of SDG 4 targets. It ...

The Institute is an autonomous organization within UNESCO. This functional autonomy safeguards the Institute’s independence in developing and disseminating the accurate and policy-relevant data needed ...

External audit conducted by the Cour des comptes of France in 2010 Evaluation of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) ...

21–22 April 2026 Education Data and Statistics Commission (EDS Commission) Formerly known as the Technical Cooperation Group on SDG 4 indicators (TCG), the Education Data and Statistics Commission ...

The 2025 Africa SDG 4 scorecard tracks how African countries are progressing towards their own national benchmarks - education targets grounded in local realities and priorities. It shows that 118 ...