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 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 ...

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has officially launched the 2026 Survey of Formal Education, marking the start of the Institute’s latest global education data collection round. The survey ...

Monitoring commitments to SDG 4 Eight SDG 4 indicators have been selected in the benchmarking process, taking into consideration disparities of regions, sub-regions and countries. In addition to this ...

The 2025 SDG 4 Scorecard, released by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and the Global Education Monitoring Report, assesses countries’ progress toward their national education benchmarks for 2025 ...

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) presented its Statutory Report by the Governing Board on the Activities of the Institute (2024–2025), to the 43rd session of UNESCO’s General Conference in ...

On the occasion of the 4th World Statistics Day on October 20, 2025, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) celebrates the transformative power of data to drive progress, equity, and accountability ...

The creative and cultural industries are vital economic engines. Yet the question remains: how do we measure something as vibrant and intangible as culture? In response to the urgent need for stronger ...

SDG4 aims to provide high-quality education worldwide, with teachers being the cornerstone of inclusive, equitable, and quality education. However, the current SDG monitoring framework for teaching ...