UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the statistical office of UNESCO and is the primary UN depository for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication covering more than 200 countries and territories.
The UIS was established in 1999. Based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, it was created to improve UNESCO's statistical programme and to develop and deliver the timely, accurate and policy-relevant statistics needed in today’s increasingly complex and rapidly changing social, political and economic environments.
The Institute serves Member states of UNESCO, as well as inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations, research institutes, universities and citizens interested in high-quality data.
The UIS is the primary source of education, literacy and science data for leading publications and databases, such as: EFA Global Monitoring Report, World Development Indicators and World Development Report (World Bank), Human Development Report (UNDP), State of the World’s Children (UNICEF), among others.
Sex-disaggregated indicators are systematically integrated into all UIS data collections in order to gain a global perspective on gender equality in education, science, culture and communication.
The UIS is fully committed to the principles of open data. All data are freely available in different formats to meet the needs of different groups of users.
Designed for expert users, the UIS database is an on-line resource (http://stats.uis.unesco.org) that provides country profiles, indicators and data series in UNESCO’s fields of competence, tools to build statistical tables, related documentation, and metadata. Developers and researchers can also use an API to download UIS data in machine-readable formats.
General users can explore the data through a series of indicator pages that present charts and tables that can easily be customized, shared and downloaded.
The UIS also has a Data Visualisation Gallery, featuring interactive products on key issues, such as women in science, children out of school and girls’ education in Africa.
The Institute works with national statisticians and policymakers to improve data quality by providing training, diagnostic tools as well as standards and guidelines on the collection, analysis and use of statistical information. These services take many forms – from regional training workshops to on-site technical assistance projects through the UIS network of statistical advisors in the field.
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