SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 4

Ensure inclusive and quality education for all and promote lifelong learning

The UN explains: "Obtaining a quality education underpins a range of fundamental development drivers. Major progress has been made towards increasing access to education at all levels, particularly for women and girls.

Basic literacy skills across the world have improved tremendously, yet bolder efforts are needed to achieve universal education goals for all. For example, the world has achieved equality in primary education between girls and boys, but few countries have achieved that target at all levels of education."

The charts and visuals below provide data on the major developments in global education in relation to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets.

Further information on education and learning can be found across a range of Our World in Data entries on the Global Rise of Education, Pre-Primary, Primary and Secondary, Tertiary, and Literacy.

The UN has defined 10 Targets and 11 Indicators for SDG 4. Targets specify the goals and Indicators represent the metrics by which the world aims to track whether these Targets are achieved. Below we quote the original text of all Targets and show the data on the agreed Indicators.

Source :Goal 4: Quality Education - SDG Tracker (sdg-tracker.org)