Sustainable development
SDG 4 'Quality education
SDG 4 seeks to ensure access to equitable and quality education through all stages of life. Apart from formal qualifications, SDG 4 also aims to increase the number of youth and adults having relevant skills for employment, decent jobs and entrepreneurship.
Furthermore, SDG 4 envisions the elimination of gender and income disparities in access to education. The achievement of universal literacy and numeracy and the acquisition of knowledge and skills to promote sustainable development are also considered crucial for empowering people to live independent, healthy and sustainable lives.
To accelerate progress, SDG 4 calls for building and upgrading educational facilities, expanding the number of higher education scholarships available to developing countries and increasing the supply of qualified teachers.
Monitoring SDG 4 in an EU context focuses on progress made in promoting and increasing basic education, tertiary education and adult education.
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Access to detailed datasets: Additional breakdowns
- Early leavers from education and training by sex and country of birth (edat_lfse_02)
- Early leavers from education and training by sex and labour status (edat_lfse_14)
- Early leavers from education and training (age group 18-24) by type of disability, sex and labour status (hlth_de010)
- Population by educational attainment level, sex and age (%) - main indicators (edat_lfse_03)
- Population aged 30-34 by educational attainment level, sex and NUTS 2 regions (%) (edat_lfse_12)
- Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and labour status (%) (edat_lfs_9904)
- Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and country of birth (%) (edat_lfs_9912)
- Population by educational attainment level, sex, age and degree of urbanisation (%) (edat_lfs_9913)
- Tertiary educational attainment (age group 30-34) by type of disability and sex (hlth_de020)
- Employment rates of young people not in education and training by sex, educational attainment level and years since completion of highest level of education (edat_lfse_24)
- Employment rates of young people not in education and training by sex, educational attainment level, years since completion of highest level of education and country of birth (edat_lfse_32)
- Employment rates of young people not in education and training by sex, educational attainment level, years since completion of highest level of education and NUTS 2 regions (edat_lfse_33)
- Employment rates of young people not in education and training by sex, educational attainment level, years since completion of highest level of education and degree of urbanisation (edat_lfse_34)
- Participation rate in education and training (last 4 weeks) by sex and labour status (trng_lfse_02)
- Participation rate in education and training (last 4 weeks) by sex and educational attainment level (trng_lfse_03)
- Participation rate in education and training (last 4 weeks) by NUTS 2 regions (trng_lfse_04)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex, age and labour status (NEET rates) (edat_lfse_20)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex, age and educational attainment level (NEET rates) (edat_lfse_21)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex and NUTS 2 regions (NEET rates) (edat_lfse_22)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex, age and country of birth (NEET rates) (edat_lfse_28)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by sex, age and degree of urbanisation (NEET rates) (edat_lfse_29)
- Young people neither in employment nor in education and training by type of disability, sex and age (hlth_de030)