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Millions of children learn only very little. How can the world provide a better education to the next generation? - Our World in Data

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Research suggests that many children – especially in the world’s poorest countries – learn only very little in school. What can we do to improve this?

Home Global Education For many children, schools do not live up to their promise: in many schools, children learn very little. This is a problem in rich countries. By the end of primary school, about 9% of children in high-income countries cannot read with comprehension. 1 But it tends to be a much larger problem in poorer countries. This is what the chart below shows. The education researcher Joāo Pedro Azevedo and his colleagues estimate that in the very poorest countries of the world, 90% of children are not able to read with comprehension when they reach the end of primary school. Download

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