Communication and Information - Data, Facts and Figures

UNESCO provides the global community with reliable data, statistics and research in the fields of communication and information. This page is regularly updated with resources from UNESCO reports and monitoring tools.

Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists

1,482

journalists killed since 1993

23,000

judicial actors

from 150 countries trained on freedom of expression

Universal Access to Information

135

UN Member States

have adopted various Access to Information legal guarantees

132

UN Member States have adopted

constitutional, statutory and/or policy guarantees for public access to information.

Out of 42

countries that submitted their reviews

to the VNR process, 28 countries (67%) reported on ‘access to information’.

11 countries

adopted Access to Information laws

since the adoption of the 2030 Agenda

102 countries

participated in 2021

in the UNESCO Survey on SDG 16.10.2

8,324

languages

are documented with approximately 7,000 still in use

About 1,400

languages enjoy legal recognition

Around 1,500

languages risk losing their users in the near future

Less than 2%

of languages in use

benefit from workable advanced technologies

Media and Digital Empowerment

Nearly 60%

of the world’s population is using the Internet.

Wide-scale and sustainable Media and Information Literacy training for all is still missing.

85 countries

celebrated

Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2021.

24 countries

took steps to develop national policy and strategy

on media and information literacy.

395

youth organizations around the globe

trained to integrate media and information literacy in their policies and operations.

Documentary Heritage

432

Memory of the World inscriptions

on the International Register since 1995