Global Education Digest 2006

The Global Education Digest 2006 presents education statistics from primary to tertiary levels in more than 200 countries. The Digest also presents a wide range of comparable education indicators which can be used to assess progress towards the Education for All and Millennium Development Goals. The 2006 Digest also presents regional averages for a greater number of education indicators and adult and youth literacy rates.

The overview is divided into four sections. The first section describes the basic framework that is used to compare different types of tertiary systems across countries. The second section looks at the outputs of the tertiary sectors in terms of graduates. It also looks at the fields of study that are pursued, as well as the gender differences embedded in these choices. The third section turns to trends in participation using indicators that focus on individuals, as well as years of study, and measure gender parity across different types of tertiary programmes. The final section examines changes in the international mobility of tertiary students focusing on their countries of origin and of study, providing a perspective on the internationalisation of tertiary education.