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The UNESCO Science Report is a global monitoring report published regularly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.Every five years, this report maps the latest trends and developments in national and regional policy landscapes, against the backdrop of shifting socio-economic, geopolitical and environmental realities.
Text taken from UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 , 431-469, UNESCO, UNESCO Publishing. This article incorporates text from a free content work. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (license statement/permission). Text taken from UNESCO Science Report: the Race Against Time for Smarter Development , 422-465, UNESCO Publishing.
Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015) In 2010, Tanzania devoted 1.7% of GDP to higher education and 6.2% of GDP to education as a whole, one of the highest rates in Africa. Even though Tanzania had eight public institutions of higher education and a plethora of private institutions in 2015, fewer than half of secondary school ...
Note: The sum of the breakdown by field of science may not correspond to the total because of fields not elsewhere classified. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Table 18.5 Table: Researchers in Cape Verde by field of science, 2011. Other countries are given for comparison
Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015) Despite the turbulence of recent years, Zimbabwe's education sector remains sound. In 2012, 91% of young adult and teens aged 15–24 years were literate, 53% of the population aged 25 years or more had completed secondary education and 3% of adults held a tertiary qualification.
PhD graduates in Iran by field of study and gender, 2007 and 2012. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015) There has been an interesting evolution in the gender balance among PhD students. Whereas the share of female PhD graduates in health remained stable at 38–39% between 2007 and 2012, it rose in all three other broad fields.
Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030 (2015), Figure 8.2. On the other hand, the targets related to fostering a popular science culture have been partly reached. For instance, in 2010, over 19 million students took part in the Brazilian Mathematics Olympiad for Public Schools, up from 14 million in 2006.
Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030, data from UNESCO Institute for Statistics Despite the modest level of financial investment, Botswana counts one of the highest researcher densities in sub-Saharan Africa: 344 per million inhabitants (in head counts), compared to 200 in Zimbabwe, 343 in Namibia, 350 in Gabon, 631 in Senegal and 818 in ...