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Note.Underscored competence areas and competences are proposed additions to the existing DigComp 2.1 competences. The framework will also support efforts to develop indicators for SDG targets beyond ...
Education Data Release – September 2023 New education data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) released this week track country progress towards Sustainable Development Goal objectives for ...
As part of the coordinated global education response to the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO, UNICEF and the World Bank jointly launched the Survey on National Education Responses to COVID-19 School Closures ...
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has launched its 2023 Survey of Research and Experimental Development (R&D) Statistics for the reference year 2022 to ensure the timely collection of data for ...
Notes: Data in this graph are based on headcounts – HC measurements (that is total number of researchers who are mainly or partially engaged in R&D). The regional averages are based on available data ...
New data now available in the SDG 4 database contains information on over 200 countries, including: disaggregated data on the proportion of children and young people achieving at least a minimum ...
As part of the SDG Agenda 2030, countries have pledged to “build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”. In particular, SDG Target 9.5 ...
The UIS is excited to introduce the new UIS Data Browser which brings together all our data on education, science, and culture, making it a convenient resource for everyone, from policymakers to ...
To help countries cope with COVID-19 school closure learning losses and regain ground in their education targets, the UIS has mindfully revised the core indicators themselves. In an effort to mitigate ...
R&D (SDG 9.5) Data Release - February 2025: Highlights SDG 9.5 on Research and development (R&D): The UIS, as the custodian agency, collects data and produces two key indicators to monitor progress ...
In Central and Southern Asia, numbers of children falling below the minimum level appear to have been large, at 34 million primary and lower secondary children. Regions with relatively extensive ...
SDG 9.5 on R&D: The data refresh primarily includes new country-level data for 43 countries for the 2022 reference year, for SDG 9.5 indicators (SDG 9.5.1: Research and development expenditure as a ...