UNESCO have published a progress report focusing on out-of-school rates for children. The period they look at covers the years from 2015 to 2025 and it doesn’t look too great.
Numbers for out-of-school children have increased. There are other targets that don’t look like they’ll be met:
“Countries are furthest behind from their 2025 national targets in training teachers (off track by 7 percentage points in pre‑primary education), expanding early childhood education participation (off track by 9 percentage points, a likely impact of COVID‑19) and achieving minimum proficiency in reading by the end of primary (off track by 11 percentage points and hampered by a lack of data). Countries are moving backwards in terms of public education spending; levels were further away from the twin thresholds of 4% of gross domestic product and 15% of total public expenditure in 2023 than they were in 2015.”
GPE have published further analysis of the report and out-of-school data in a blog.