● UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Education Data
UIS is the leading source for international education statistics. Covering more than 200 countries and territories, the UIS database covers all education levels and addresses key policy issues such as gender parity, teachers and financing. It provides country profiles, which summarize key education and literacy statistics, as well as statistical tables with more details information. It also provides data on specific issues including out-of-school children, gender and education, higher education, teachers and education finance.
This tool allows generating customized statistical tables based on EFA GMR reports. Choose the countries and indicators you are interested in and download formatted tables, either on-screen or to Excel.
● World Bank Education Statistics - Edstats
Edstats data is from a wide variety of sources including The World Bank, UIS, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR), and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). It includes:
Enrolment, progression, completion indicators
Learning outcomes data
Data on education inequities
Education projections to 2025 & 2050
Expenditure on education
Household survey
It provides country profiles as well as thematic maps for selected education indicators. Through the data query system, it is possible to select its data and to create maps, charts and tables based on the initial query.
● UNESCO/OECD/EUROSTAT (UOE) database on education
It covers the outputs of educational institutions, the policy levers that shape educational outputs, the human and financial resources invested in education, structural characteristics of education systems, and the economic and social outcomes of education, learning and training throughout life.
● The Education Policy and Data Center (EPDC) Database
EPDC serves as a resource for education data, profiles, and data reports on education status at the country level, research papers on issues and challenges in education in developing and transitional countries, as well as medium-term education projections.
Each country page displays all of EPDC's available resources on a selected country in a snapshot, including a summary of education in that country, example graphs showing key indicators, and links to all of the relevant profiles and research. It is possible to search by level of education, indicators, household characteristics, gender, age group, rural/urban, sub-national units and datasource.
Data are presented in a very visualized way, with the possibility to choose the type of graph and the format of the result (Excel, CSV)
● SITEAL Database (in Spanish)
SITEAL is an information system of educational trends in Latina America which makes available various resources in view of analysing the relationship between the social dynamic and the educational practices in the region. It includes data on access to school, its continuation and the level achieved. It also provides information on the relationship between education and labour market as well as between education and life conditions. Country profiles are available.
● EFA Info 2.0 Asia and Pacific
This database is designed as a tool to support the compilation, dissemination, analysis and presentation of key education data on those population groups most in need of access to quality education across the Asia and Pacific Region. While based on the indicators as defined in the Asia and Pacific EFA Mid-Decade Assessment, the software is customizable to fit the country context and the needs.
The Database compiles national and international education data, household survey data and special studies such as literacy, disabilities, caste and ethnicity and economic surveys. It includes disaggregated data including on:
Religious, linguistic and ethnic minority groups, casts
Castes, socio-economic classes and other social stratifications
Women and girls
Persons with disabilities
Residents for remote areas/border regions
Undocumented people, non-citizens, non-registered residents
Migrants, refugees, displaced persons and their children
The extremely poor
● EFA GMR World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE)
WIDE brings together data from demographic and health surveys and multiple indicator cluster surveys from over sixty countries to enable users to compare education attainment between countries, and between groups within countries, according to factors that are associated with inequality, including wealth, gender, ethnicity and location. Users can create maps, charts, info graphics and tables from the data, and download, print or share them online.
● UNDP Human Development Index (HDI) – Education Indicator
The HDI combine indicators of life expectancy, educational attainment and income which aim at measuring development. The education component of the HDI is now measured by mean of years of schooling for adults aged 25 years and expected years of schooling for children of school entering age. Mean years of schooling is estimated based on educational attainment data from censuses and surveys available in the UNESCO Institute for Statistics database and Barro and Lee (2010) methodology). Expected years of schooling estimates are based on enrolment by age at all levels of education and population of official school age for each level of education.
● Eurostat Data on Education and Training
The European Commission provides comparable data, statistics and indicators on education for the EU-27, the candidate countries, EEA countries, Switzerland, Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, USA and Japan. The main data source is the set of joint UOE (Unesco Institute of Statistics (UIS), OECD, Eurostat) questionnaires on education and other Eurostat-specific tables. The statistics refer to public and private, full-time and part-time education in the ordinary school and university system as defined in the international standard classification of education (ISCED). The statistics cover enrolments, entrants, graduates, personnel, language learning and expenditure. It also provides data on continuing vocational education and lifelong learning.
● SACMEQ / StatSkil Interactive maps
The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) The is an international non-profit developmental organisation of 15 Ministries of Education in Southern and Eastern Africa that decided to work together to share experiences and expertise in developing the capacities of education planners to apply scientific methods to monitor and evaluate the conditions of schooling and the quality of education, with technical assistance from UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP). SACMEQ Data is available on StatSkil website, an interactive data visualization with maps and graphs, which includes education indicators (access, education system, expenditure, gender equality, out-of-school children, progression rates, school life expectancy, teachers, tertiary education, quality).
● Pearson – the Learning Curve (excellent tool, but do we want to promote their work…?)
The Learning Curve Data Bank groups in a visual tool internationally comparable education data, classify by education input indicators, education output indicators and socio-economic environment. It provides very visual country profiles.
● Education International Barometer of Human & Trade Union Rights in Education (but info seems a bit out-dated…)
This barometer provides a comprehensive report of the quality of education and respect for human labour rights in countries around the world. As well as examining all levels of education, from early childhood to tertiary, it explores a whole array of issues that concerns the global education sector today, such as academic freedom, gender equality, students with special needs, refugee and minority children, and child labour. A tool to compare the statistical data from 2 different countries is also available.