Education at a Glance 2024
OECD Indicators
Education at a Glance is the authoritative source for information on the state of education around the world. It provides data on the structure, finances and performance of education systems across OECD, accession and partner countries. More than 100 charts and tables in this publication – as well as links to much more available on the educational database – provide key information on the output of educational institutions; the impact of learning across countries; access, participation and progression in education; the financial resources invested in education; and teachers, the learning environment and the organisation of schools.
The 2024 edition focuses on equity, investigating how progress through education and the associated learning and labour market outcomes are impacted by dimensions such as gender, socio-economic status, country of birth and regional location. A specific chapter is dedicated to the Sustainable Development Goal 4 on education, providing an assessment of where OECD, accession and partner countries stand in providing equal access to quality education at all levels.
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Transition from education to work: Where are today’s youth?
Understanding how 18-24 year-olds are doing in the job market is particularly important because people in this age group have usually just completed upper secondary education (typically between the age of 17 and 19, see Chapter B3). Their labour-market status reflects how open the job market is to new school leavers and how easily they can enter the workforce. The share of 18-24 year-olds who are neither employed nor in formal education or training (NEET) decreased by an average of 2 percentage points between 2016 and 2023, on average across OECD countries with comparable data for both years. However, while the NEET rate decreased in some countries, it increased in others. Italy experienced the largest decrease in NEET rate (over 9 percentage points), while in Costa Rica and Lithuania the share rose over 3 percentage points over the same period (Figure A2.1).
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