2007 Global Education Digest

This 208-page annual report, free PDF download, contains numerous potentially useful statistics. The quote is from the Scout Report, where we found the link:

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics publishes numerous technical guides and strategy papers every year, and this particular document is both timely and important. The Global Education Digest 2007 offers a comparative look at education statistics and spending across the world, and there are a number of findings that are particularly revealing within its pages. One such finding is that governments in sub-Saharan African spend only 2.4% of the world's public education resources, yet about 15% of the school-age population lives in these countries. Readers can compare education statistics from over 200 countries, and the report also contains a number of useful appendices with additional data. Currently, the report is available in English, French, and Spanish, and soon it will also be available in Arabic and Russian. [KMG] Copyright 2007 Internet Scout Project - http://scout.wisc.edu