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National education reports worldwide

Europe

Europe (several countries)

The report was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It presents longitudinal studies on educational pathways of children and young people as they have been conducted in selected countries in North America and Europe (Canada, United States of America, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany). The focus lies on the use of these studies for [...]

France

France
"Since its first edition in 1991, the State of Education reports on key indicators to analyse [the French] education system and assess the impact of policies implemented. Structured around the means used, conditions of schooling and pupil and student results, the publication highlights main developments and provides [...]

France
The report offers an analysis of differences in education in France by department, region and local school administration from early childhood education to higher education. The data are organised by 30 indicators and presented in graphs and tables. The report is published every three years. For former reports starting in 1993, please [...]

Luxembourg

Luxemburg
Luxembourg's main page for its National Education Report. The education report is published every three years. You can find old education reports from 2015 onwards. The report is published by the University of Luxembourg as an author's report. Unfortunately, there is no English version of this website. But you can find a short [...]

Netherlands

Netherlands
Every year the Dutch Inspectorate of Education publishes the Annual Education Report on the state of education. This report outlines developments and key themes in Dutch education and includes findings for primary, secondary and higher education. An English summary informs about the most important subjects of the report. [...]

Austria

Austria
The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research in Austria presents its national education reports on this page. The page itself is only available in German, but you can find an executive summary in English for reports starting in [...]

Austria
Overview page of the Federal Institute for Quality Assurance in the Austrian School System (IQS) on the Austrian National Education Report. Unfortunately, this website is only available in German.

"Until 2018, the overall coordination was carried out by the BIFIE (Federal Institute for Educational Research, Innovation and [...]

Sweden

Sweden
Every year, Skolverket, the Swedish National Agency for Education, publishes an overall assessment of the situation and developments in the school system in the so-called situation assessment on behalf of the government. There is an English summary of the 2013 and 2015 reports, which can be found in the [...]

Switzerland

Switzerland
The Swiss Education Report provides data and information from statistics, research and administration on the entire education system in Switzerland from pre-school to continuing education and serves as a basis for the formulation of the joint education goals of the Confederation and the cantons. It is compiled every 4-5 years and [...]

Spain

Spain
"Since 2000, the Ministry of Education has published a synthesis of educational data in Spain, the "State System of Education Indicators (Sistema Estatal de Indicadores de la Educación)". It offers the results of the main educational statistics both at national level and disaggregated by Autonomous Community, also presenting [...]

Spain
"Each academic year, the State School Council prepares, approves and publishes the Report on the State of the Education System. It contains the educational development during the academic year and incorporates the proposals for improvement that the Council deems appropriate to send to the educational administrations." You can find [...]

Spain
"The report "Facts and Figures on the Spanish University System" is a synthesis publication that presents the most relevant data on the Spanish University System, focusing on its structure (organisational and economic), access, students and staff." You can find reports starting in 2005. [Abstract: Site editors' information translated [...]

Turkey

Turkey
The Turkish Ministry of Education (‘Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’) offers a list of its publications here. Under ‘Performans Programlari’ (Performance Programmes) you can find the education reports (‘Yili Performans Programi’ - annual performance programmes) from 2011 onwards, which are unfortunately only [...]

Ukraine

Ukraine
The Education Report of Ukraine is usually prepared by the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (NAES). Unfortunately, on their website and on their digital library website, you can find only three Education Reports from [...]

Ukraine
In their series "National report on the state and prospects of education development in Ukraine", the National Academy of Educational Sciences of Ukraine (NAES) offers a special report that looks not only at the reporting year 2021, but also at 30 years of education in Ukraine since the country's independence in 1991. [Abstract: [...]

United Kingdom (UK)

United Kingdom
This page links to the UK's education reports since 1993, officially called "The Annual Report of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Education, Children's Services and Skills". They are compiled by the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED), which is responsible for the continuous and regular [...]

North America

North America (USA & Canada)

The report was commissioned by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. It presents longitudinal studies on educational pathways of children and young people as they have been conducted in selected countries in North America and Europe (Canada, United States of America, France, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany). The focus lies on the use of these studies for [...]

United States of America (USA)

United States of America (USA)
The Condition of Education is published annually since 1989 and summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents more than 40 indicators on the status and condition of education. Special analyses are conducted for each year focusing on a specific [...]

Canada

Canada
The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) has been running since 1999. It provides a statistical portrait of the elementary, secondary and postsecondary education systems. The Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP) draws from a wide variety of data sources to provide information on the school-age population, [...]

Canada
These reports were published from 2009 till 2020. They were a product of the Pan-Canadian Education Indicators Program (PCEIP). They were intended to facilitate the comparison of educational systems in Canada's provinces and territories with those of countries that belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development [...]

Canada
This annual review of statistics on Canadian education was published for the years 1996 till 2000. It summarized information on institutions, enrolment, graduates, teachers and finance for all levels of education and provides an analysis of the data. Ten-year time series were shown for most variables at the Canada level and five-year [...]

South America

Argentina

Argentina
Very comprehensive page of the Argentine government on all statistics, evaluations, surveys, studies, reports and more in the education sector in Argentina. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Argentina
No genuine education report could be found for Argentina. However, the Argentine government offers extensive education statistics every year. Since 1996 these have been available as Excel tables. In addition, from 2017 onwards, a PDF file is available for each year which offers a short introduction to the content and methodology in [...]

Brazil

Brazil
The reports linked here serve to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the national education plan (Plano Nacional de Educação - PNE). The reports are based on various education indicators, statistics and studies. They have been published every two years since 2014/16. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Columbia

Colombia
The Colombian Ministry of National Education presents two educational reports: a kind of shorter interim report that goes from around the summer of one year to the summer of the next year; and a longer report, which then covers a full year from January to December. The Ministry thus "addresses the background, key advances and [...]

Mexico

Mexico
The "Indicadores nacionales de la mejora continua de la educación en México" (National indicators for the continuous improvement of education in Mexico) can be seen as a follow-up publication to the "Informes sobre la Educación Obligatoria en México" (Reports on compulsory [...]

Mexico
The "Informes sobre la Educación Obligatoria en México" (Reports on Compulsory Education in Mexico) were published by the National Institute for Educational Evaluation (INEE) from 2014 to 2019. They summarised the various studies, evaluations and statistics produced by the INEE for the year in question. As other reports are also [...]

Africa

Africa (several countries)

Africa South of the Sahara
The Unesco Office for Africa offers various analyses of the education system in sub-Saharan African countries. The reports are written partly in English and partly in French and date back to 2003. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Egypt

Egypt
The Egyptian Ministry of Planning, Monitoring and Administrative Reform and its successor, the Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, offer so-called "Voluntary National Reports" on the status of achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. These include 2-3 pages each on Goal 4 "Quality [...]

"Around the world, government leaders have taken significant measures to deal with the global effects of crises. In response to such situations as COVID-19, UNESCO monitors education responses at the national and local levels. This white paper aims to facilitate policy discussions and experience sharing by collecting and analysing data. It seeks to solve the question: How do [...]

Kenya

Kenya
On this page of the Kenyan Ministry of Finance ("National Treasury"), you will find the Education Sector Report for the respective year under ‘Sector reports’. This report contains an analysis and evaluation of education performance compared to the planned targets for the respective financial year as well as the financial allocation [...]

Morocco

Morocco
The Moroccan Ministry of Education, Preschool Education and Sport offers national and international reports on education here. Many reports are somewhat older (period 2000-2015) and deal with the implementation of goals from the Unesco initiative "Education for All" or with gender equality. The most recent report is entitled "Second [...]

Morocco
The Moroccan Supreme Council for Education, Training and Scientific Research offers various reports, studies and evaluations under the Publications category. Among others, you can find the following (courtesy translation, all publications are in French):
- National survey on students and university life (2023)
- Scientific [...]

Senegal

Senegal
We link directly to the Senegalese education report 2018/19 [pdf]. Further education reports can be found scattered on various websites:
* National education report Senegal 2018/19
* [...]

South Africa (Republic)

South Africa, Republic
In its extensive list of reports, the South African Department of Basic Education offers, among others, the DBE Annual Reports. These reports take up the topics of the DBE Annual Performance Plans, which are also listed, and report to what extent the set goals have been achieved. These reports on basic education are [...]

South Africa, Republic
In its extensive list of reports, the South African Department of Higher Education & Training offers the DHET Annual Reports (sometimes just "Annual Report"). They contain general information, information on the performance of the higher education and training system, its governance, human resource management and the [...]

Asia

Afghanistan

Afghanistan
We link to two education reports from the Ministry of Education of Afghanistan, which were produced relatively far apart from each other. No other such education reports could be found for other years:
* [...]

China

China, People's Republic of
All reports from the Chinese Ministry of Education are listed and linked here. Reviews for the years 2012-2021 were also created for various educational areas. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

India

India
This overview page by the Indian Ministry of Education offers extensive education reports starting in 2004/2005 (note, the reports are not always sorted chronologically). In 2020, the name of the former Ministry of Human Resource and Development (MHRD) was was changed to Ministry of Education (MoE). This is why older educational reports [...]

India
In addition to the very extensive educational reports, the Indian Ministry of Education published three shorter educational reports "for the people" between 2009 and 2012. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Iran

Iran
As part of the UNESCO global action program "Education for All" (2000-2015), the responsible Iranian authorities prepared the report linked here. It describes the status quo of the education system in Iran from 2000 to 2015 and the goals that still need to be achieved according to the UNESCO action plan. [Abstract: Editors of Education [...]

Japan

Japan
This Japanese-language site links to Japanese education reports in English. It is a site of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. In Japan, "white papers" usually refer to the government's annual reports. You can find Education reports from [...]

Japan
This page of the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology lists and links to a whole series of reports:
* White Paper on Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology 2001-2017 (In Japan, it is commonly understood that White Papers are government annual reports)
* Japanese Government Policies [...]

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan
The Kazakh "JSC Akhmet Baitursynuly National Centre for Research and Evaluation of Education Taldau” offers, among other things, the "National Report on the State and Progress of Kazakhstan’s Education System". Editions from 2012 onwards can be found in Kazakh/Russian (when they were still called the "National Collection of [...]

Kazakhstan
The Kazakh "JSC Akhmet Baitursynuly National Centre for Research and Evaluation of Education Taldau" offers a special report in the series of its "National Report on the State and Progress of Kazakhstan's Education System". This report not only provides an analysis of the reporting year 2021, but also of 30 years of education in [...]

Qatar

Qatar
You can read a lot *about* the publication of a Qatar Education Survey or Study by the Qatari Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI), but there are hardly any reports under this name. We have provided links here to the few reports that can be found on the subject of education from SESRI:
* [...]

Russia

Russian Federation
Here is a link to a Russian government page with search results for the title of the educational report in Russian "Основные результаты работы [...]

Russian Federation
The OECD Country Notes provide insight into the Russian education system using various education indicators. Since the Russian national education report is only available until 2017 and only in Russian, the 2021 OECD brief report on education in Russia is currently one of the most up-to-date ones freely available in English. [...]

Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia
The report linked here was published by the Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia on the occasion of the the 48th session of the Unesco Education International Conference in 2008. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Saudi Arabia
The OECD Country Notes provide insight into the Saudi Arabian education system based on various education indicators. Since there is only one education report from 2008 in English, which was written by Saudi Arabia itself, the OECD brief reports are currently among the most up-to-date ones in English. The [...]

South Korea

Korea, Republic of (South Korea)
The Japanese Ministry of Education lists its education reports called ‘Education in Korea’ here. Unfortunately, it is not possible to link directly to a result list that only leads to these reports. Therefore, please search for the reports yourself in the database. We offer a direct link to the reports from [...]

Thailand

Thailand
The Office of the Educational Council, a department of the Thai Ministry of Education, offers education reports from 1999 onwards (‘Education in Thailand’). There is a gap in the publications between 2007 and 2016. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Turkey

Turkey
The Turkish Ministry of Education (‘Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı’) offers a list of its publications here. Under ‘Performans Programlari’ (Performance Programmes) you can find the education reports (‘Yili Performans Programi’ - annual performance programmes) from 2011 onwards, which are unfortunately only [...]

Oceania

Australia

Australia
The Australian Education Report is integrated into an overarching "Report on Government Services" and can be found in Chapter B "Child care, Education and Training". You can find reports starting in 1995. [Abstract: Editors of Education Worldwide]

Australia
The Australian Education Performance Reporting Dashboard provides statistics and graphs on the achievement of specific targets identified in various so-called agreements. The following agreements are analyzed in terms of their objectives:
* National School Reform Agreement
* National Education Agreement
* National [...]

New Zealand

New Zealand
Since the new website of the New Zealand Ministry of Education only offers education reports from 2018 onwards, we link here to a copy of the old website, which offers education reports from 2009 onwards. The report is published annually and "outlines ... key achievements over the past year and [...]

New Zealand
The New Zealand Ministry of Education provides education reports from 2018 onwards here. For older education reports from 2009 onwards, see a copy of the old website in the Internet Archive. The report is published annually and "outlines ... key achievements over the past year and details [...]