The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the statistical office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and is the UN depository for comparable statistics in the fields of education, science and technology, and culture and communications.
To access online resources related to the GED – including the statistical tables, time series data, accompanying metadata and other materials – please consult: www.uis.unesco.org/publications/GED2009. To order the interactive database on CD-Rom, please contact: publications@uis.unesco.org.
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I N S T I T U T E f o r S T AT I S T I C S
The special focus of this edition is the analysis of emerging global trends in tertiary education, highlighting the rapid growth of tertiary education systems since 1970, changing patterns in tertiary education graduates by field of study, and in particular, the changing landscape of international student mobility.
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The Digest provides data for the school year ending in 2007 or the latest year available, as well as data for 2008 for a small number of countries. It includes data tables from the World Education Indicators (WEI) programme, which are comparable across a group of 62 countries, including those that are members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In addition, time series data on tertiary education from 1970 onwards are presented.
GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2009: Comparing Education Statistics Across the World
The 2009 Global Education Digest (GED) presents a wide range of education indicators to assess progress towards Education for All and Millennium Development Goals. These cross-nationally comparable indicators also provide benchmarks for the performance of national education systems.
GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2009
Comparing Education Statistics Across the World