

12 years of quality education for all children and promoting lifelong learning opportunities is fundamental to young people reaching their full potential, as set out in Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Over the last two decades, we have seen significant improvement in access to education across all our study countries, with vastly increased school and university enrolment rates and reduced overall levels of student dropout.
Yet despite these gains, across many developing countries, shockingly low levels of achievement in basic foundational skills, such as literacy and numeracy persist . Young Lives evidence also shows that overall learning outcomes remain very low, with significant and widening inequalities in educational achievements both across and within our study countries. Comparing maths test scores of our younger and older cohorts in Peru and Vietnam, equivalent skills in Ethiopia and India appear to be worsening.
12 years of quality education for all children and promoting lifelong learning opportunities is fundamental to young people reaching their full potential, as set out in Sustainable Development Goal 4.
Over the last two decades, we have seen significant improvement in access to education across all our study countries, with vastly increased school and university enrolment rates and reduced overall levels of student dropout.
Yet despite these gains, across many developing countries, shockingly low levels of achievement in basic foundational skills, such as literacy and numeracy persist . Young Lives evidence also shows that overall learning outcomes remain very low, with significant and widening inequalities in educational achievements both across and within our study countries. Comparing maths test scores of our younger and older cohorts in Peru and Vietnam, equivalent skills in Ethiopia and India appear to be worsening.