Father O'Reilly's Gift of Education
Education Data & Results
Below is a list of useful statistics on education, both globally and for GPE partner countries. The data are sourced from reputable organizations such as the UNESCO Institute for Statistics or the Global Education Monitoring Report.
Conflict-affected and fragile countries
- 75 million children aged 3 to 18 live in countries facing war and violence and need educational support. Source: ODI Education cannot wait. Proposing a fund for education in emergencies, p. 7
- There are 17 million school-age refugees and internally displaced children in
countries affected by conflict. Source: ODI Education cannot wait. Proposing a fund for education in
- 35% of out-of-school children of primary school age worldwide live in 32 countries affected by conflict (2014). This represents 21.5 million children. Source: GEM Report/UIS Policy paper 27/Fact Sheet 37, p.4
- 25% of out-of-school adolescents of lower-secondary school age worldwide live in 32 countries affected by conflict (2014). This represents 15 million adolescents.Source: GEM Report/UIS Policy paper 27/Fact Sheet 37, p.4
- 18% of out-of-school youth of upper-secondary school age worldwide live in 32 countries affected by conflict (2014). This represents 26 million youth. Source: GEM Report/UIS Policy paper 27/Fact Sheet 37, p.4
- 17 years on average: length of forced displacement due to crises and conflicts. Source: UNHCR May 2014
- 28 GPE partner developing countries are fragile or affected by conflict (43% of all country partners)
Source: R4L Report 2014, p.9
- 191 million children of primary and lower-secondary school age live in 28 GPE partner developing countries that are fragile or affected by conflict (2013) Source: GPE Secretariat calculations based on UIS data
- The primary completion rate in countries affected by fragility and conflictin creased from 56% in 2000 to 68.5% in 2014. Source: UIS June 2016 data
- More than US$1 billion in GPE grants disbursed in fragile and conflict-affected partner countries by December 2015 Source: GPE Secretariat
- The share of GPE program implementation grants allocated to fragile and conflict-affected partner countries more than doubled from 21% in 2008 to 50% in 2015 Source: GPE Secretariat data
- Close to 60% of GPE allocations in 2014 went to fragile or conflict-affected partner countries.
Source: GPE Secretariat
- Only 1.4% of humanitarian aid was invested in education in 2016. Source: UNOCHA FTS 2016
- While the need for funding for education in emergencies has increased by 21% since 2010, international financing for it has declined by 41% over the same period Source:
The Learning Generation, executive summary p. 13
- Children in fragile, conflict-affected countries are more than twice as likely to be out of school
compared with those in countries not affected by conflict; similarly, adolescents are more than two-thirds more likely to be out of school. Source: GEM Report, Policy Paper 21, June 2015, p.2
- On average, the conflicts in low income countries from 1999 to 2008 lasted twelve years
. This is longer than most children and youth in these countries would typically spend in school.
Source: GEM Report: The hidden crisis: Armed conflict and education (2011) p.138
- Girls are almost two and a half more likely to be out of school if they live in conflict-affected countries, and young women are nearly 90% mo re likely to be out of secondary school than their counterparts in countries not affected by conflict. Source: GEM Report, Policy Paper 21, June 2015, p.3
- Thousands of attacks occurred in schools in at least 70 different countries between 2009 and 2014, with many attacks specifically targeting advocates for gender equality in education. Source:
- Between 2000 and 2014, the numbers of education institutions targeted rose 17-fold, causing enrollment rates in affected regions to plummet. Source: The Learning Generation, p. 94
- More than 3,600 separate attacks against educational institutions, teachers and students were recorded in 2012 alone Source: Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Background paper on attacks against girls seeking to access education, p.3
- Each year of education reduces the risk of conflict by around 20%. Source: World Bank. Doing well out of war (Paul Collier), 1999 , p. 5
- If the enrollment rate for secondary schooling is 10 percentage points higher than the average,
the risk of war is reduced by about 3 percentage points (a decline in the risk from 11.5% to 8.6%).
Source: World Bank. Understanding Civil War, 2005 , p. 16
-In countries with twice the levels of educational inequality, the probability of conflict more than doubles. Source: The Learning Generation, executive summary, p. 4
-Globally, an estimated 30% of the 121 million out-of-school children of primary and lower-secondary school age live in conflict-affected countries. Source: GPE calculations based on UNESCO GEMR 2016
-In the 65 GPE partner developing countries alone, 136 million children of primary and lower secondary age live in conflict-affected and fragile situations. Source: GPE estimate based on UIS June 2016 data
Disability
- Approximately one billion people in the world are living with a disability, with at least 1 in 10 being children and 80% living in developing countries. Source: World Report on Disability
- Between 93 million and 150 million children are estimated to live with disabilities. Source: EFA GMR 2015, p.100
-An estimated 90% of children with disabilities in the developing world do not go to school.
Source: UNICEF, Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children, p.6
Domestic financing
- 17.3% of public expenditure all