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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
GDP in Central Asia by economic sector, 2005 and 2013. Source: UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030, Figure 14.2. Like its Central Asian neighbours, Uzbekistan has been modernizing the industrial sector and fostering the development of service industries through business-friendly fiscal policies and other measures, to reduce the share of agriculture in GDP.
Contribution of each state to US research in 2010, in terms of funding (public and private sectors) and science and engineering occupations. Source: Figure 5.6 from the UNESCO Science Report: towards 2030, based on data from National Science Foundation. The level of research spending varies considerably from one state to another.