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

Seychelles (96%), Sao Tome and Principe (93%), Namibia (92%) and Mauritius (91%) had the highest literacy rates in Africa in 2018. One of the cautions with international literacy comparisons is that countries apply different definitions of what it means to be "literate". It also depends on how peopl...

In 2018, Official Development Assistance (ODA) amounted to 3% of GDP in Sub-Saharan African countries, according to UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring Report 2020. Sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP in 2018 amounted to US$ 1.7 trillion, 3% of which is US$ 51.6 billion ...

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. ...

In 2018 roughly 52 million girls of primary and secondary age were out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa. This amounts to approximately 34% of girls out of primary school compared to 29% of boys. ...