Meet the SDG 4 data: Equal access to all levels of education and training for the most vulnerable people

Learn about the parity indices used to monitor progress towards target 4.5, which aims to eliminate inequalities in education.

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This series of blogs on the indicators for Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) on education has been careful not to single out any single indicator as being more important than any other. Indeed, if we are to reach SDG 4 – quality education and lifelong learning opportunities for everybody – we have to see all the indicators, from free primary schooling to the availability of qualified teachers, as indivisible.

Yet when we examine SDG target 4.5 on eliminating disparities in education, we find ourselves at the very heart of the SDG vision. A common thread runs through every SDG goal, target and indicator. That thread is equity, backed by strong determination to ensure that nobody is left behind. SDG target 4.5 stands squarely at the intersection between this vision and the measurement of its achievement.

Measures to empower the most vulnerable people

We often hear it said that we should judge a society by the way it treats the most vulnerable people. It is rare, however, to find that the reality matches the spirit captured in…

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