84 million
The estimated number of children and young people around the world who will still be out of school by 2030 if current progress on SDG 4 continues
300 million
The estimated number of students around the world who will lack the basic numeracy and literacy skills necessary for further success by 2030 if current progress on SDG 4 continues
128 million
Number of boys out of school across the globe as of 2023
122 million
Number of girls out of school across the globe as of 2023
87 percent
Literacy rate for the population aged 15 and older globally over the period of 2015 to 2022
765 million
Number of adults around the world who lacked basic literacy skills as of 2022
94.6 million
Estimated number of persons, out of the 97.6 million people aged 5 and up, that are literate, based on the 2020 Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Census
97 percent
Literacy rate of both sexes 5 years old and older in the Philippines as of 2020 (PSA, 2023)
13.5 percent
Percentage of Filipinos who graduated from college as of 2020
21.7 percent
Percentage of Filipinos who had graduated from high school or secondary level as of 2020
10,705,286
Number of persons aged 5 to 24 years who are out-of-school children and youth
14
The Philippines’ mean score for creative thinking performance by 15-year-old students in the 2022 Programme for International Student Assessment (Pisa) ranking, the second-lowest among 64 ranked countries
Sources: Inquirer Archives, unstats.n.org, unesco.org, un.org, psa.gov.ph