SDG 4 data digest 2021

The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General's synthesis report in 2014 called for countries to embrace "a culture of shared responsibility" in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, based on "benchmarking for progress". Building on this idea within the education sector, Paragraph 28 of the Education 2030 Framework for Action, which is the roadmap for achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, called on countries to establish "appropriate intermediate benchmarks ... for addressing the accountability deficit associated with longer-term targets". Benchmark setting defines countries' contribution to the common SDG 4 goal; enables them to contextualize the monitoring of progress and link their national with regional and global education agendas; helps strengthen national planning processes; focuses attention on remaining data gaps; and contributes towards mutual learning between countries on the best way forward. This publication describes the steps taken since 2017 to agree benchmarks on a selected set of seven SDG 4 indicators: early childhood education attendance; out-of-school rates; completion rates; gender gaps in completion rates; minimum proficiency rates in reading and mathematics; trained teachers; and public education expenditure. The process reached its first major milestone in August 2021 when countries were requested to submit 19 benchmark values each for 2025 and/or 2030 for six of the seven benchmark indicators.
[Montreal: 2021]

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