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According to the most recent data from the World Bank, Seychelles (96% in 2018), South Africa (95% in 2019) and Sao Tome and Principe (93% in 2018) had the highest literacy rates in Africa. One of the cautions with international literacy comparisons is that countries apply different definitions o...

According to the UniRank database, in 2020 there are currently 1,225 officially recognised higher-education institutions in Africa. ...

In 2019, Official Development Assistance (ODA) amounted to US$360.4 billion in Sub-Saharan African countries, according to UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report 2020. ...

The Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) ranks Seychelles, Tanzania, Mauritius, Swaziland and Kenya as the five best performers in maths and literacy in East and Southern Africa. ...

Girls are more likely than boys to never set foot in a classroom. According to UNESCO Institute of Statistics data, nine million girls of primary school age in sub-Saharan Africa will never getthe chance to learn to read or write in primary school. In 2020, at the primary school level, just 66...