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 ...

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

The International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) provides a globally agreed framework for categorising education programmes and qualifications, enabling cross- national comparison of ...

Monitoring commitments to SDG 4Eight 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 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 ...

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 ...

Cultural and natural heritage are vital pillars of identity, community resilience, and sustainable development. Under Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), Target 11.4 calls for efforts to protect ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Explore accurate, reliable, and globally comparable data for international development ...