The world will mark the first-ever International Day of Education on 24 January, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly last year in celebration of the role of education for peace and development. UNESCO is calling on countries to increase political commitment to education as a force for inclusion driving the achievement of all the Sustainable Development Goals.
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On the Day, UNESCO will release a new right to education handbook. It will also publish new data on education inequalities showing which population groups are lagging behind in achieving SDG 4.
According to new data released by UNESCO’s Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring Report:
- The poorest children and youth in low-income countries are less than ½ as likely to complete primary school than the richest
- They are less than ¼ as likely to complete lower secondary school
- They are 1/10 as likely to complete upper secondary school
- Children in rural areas are over twice as likely to be out of school than children living in urban areas in low-income countries
- Only 2% of the poorest girls in low-income countries complete upper secondary school
