Monitoring and Statistics

What has enabled Hong Kong (SAR of China), the Republic of Korea and Singapore to rise to the top of the rankings in digital skills? How can other countries catch up? The UNESCO report Managing tomorrow’s digital skills seeks to answer these questions by...

This year’s International Women’s Day theme, “Time is now: Rural and urban activists transforming women’s lives”, calls for actions to empower rural women. Education is essential to these efforts. Ensuring that girls and boys stay in school and benefit...

Despite decades of efforts to get every child into the classroom, progress has come to a standstill and Asia-Pacific is no exception to this trend, according to the latest data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Of the 263 million out-of...

UNESCO Bangkok and partners are developing a training manual to assist Asia-Pacific Member States in measuring and monitoring progress toward the Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG4)-Education 2030 Agenda. A draft plan for the first six modules for the...

The livelihoods of millions of people in Asia-Pacific – some 3-11% of all workers in countries where data are available – depend on the cultural or creative industries. This number includes those who working directly in cultural industries in a cultural or...