on 2012-12-13
Have you ever wondered how access to education varies around the world? We decided to look into the data and what we found was surprising, in that among OECD countries, nearly all children have universal access to education. Please take a closer look at some of the more interesting data points we found and feel free to share!
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All very good, but these statistics don’t give the most important information: how good is that education? Fifteen years of poor education is worth less than 10 years of excellent education. Quality, in this case, is far more important than quantity.
This infographic is interesting, but it should prominently mention (not footnoted) that it covers only the 18% of the world’s population that the OECD covers. Otherwise, many readers may accidentally assume it applies to the whole world when it only applies to the “rich-country club” OECD members.
Global access to education is much worse than access in the richest 18% of the population, for obvious reasons.
“Today, OECD member countries account for … 18 percent of the world’s population.” (Source: http://usoecd.usmission.gov/mission/overview.html)
Firstly, this lacks clarity. The content could be very interesting but statistics without how that translates into social, cultural and economic contexts it’s fairly useless, it also doesn’t relate to all the countries outside the OECD, as Alan Louie said. How does our extraordinary privilege compare to other countries?