UNESCO's Institute for Statistics also highlights the lack of gender balance among teachers in Africa.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics - UIS is responsible for UNESCO statistical information.
Albert Motivans , Chief of the Education Indicators and Data Analysis Section, UNESCO Institute for Statistics, and others.
Liberal Democrat Baroness Hamwee said responsibility for immigration statistics should be handed to the Official for National Statistics (ONS).
By comparison, breast cancer killed 41, 000 Americans in 2009 (the most recent year for statistics) and prostate cancer killed 28, 000.
Participation has surged over the years as fantasy sports has grown from a hobby for statistics-obsessed baseball fans to a mainstream activity.
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the main source of education data used to monitor progress towards national and international goals.
Opportunities Lost: The Impact of Grade Repetition and Early School Leaving, the Digest presents a wide range of new data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
The Digest, produced by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, presents a wide range of indicators on the extent to which girls and boys are enrolling and completing secondary education.
As usual, we've given you the cheat sheet, so if you'd like the full reports and have got a thing for statistics, there's plenty more in the source links below.
Brazil released second quarter economic results on Friday showing growth of a meager 0.4 percent compared to the first quarter, according to government figures from the Brazilian Institute for Statistics, or IBGE.
According to the Global Education Digest, a report published last year by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 69 out of 100 adults of college age are enrolled in higher-education programs in Europe and North America.
In 2006 it produced 872 movies compared with 485 major feature films in the U.S. (although for a fraction of the cost), according to a global cinema survey conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
CNN: Nollywood loses half of film profits to piracy, say producers
Under the overall authority of the Director of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), under the Head of the Education Indicators and Data Analys is (EIDA) Section, and the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist, the incumbent will be the main focal point for education statistics for the Latin America and Caribbean region.
Design, in close liaison with the Divisions in the Sector and Field Offices as may be necessary, regular programme activities and extra budgetary projects for building human and institutional capacities on policy formulation and monitoring through the use of science and technology indicators and programmes to foster inter-regional cooperation in close cooperation with the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
UNESCO: Vacancy : Senior Programme Specialist (24/5/2011) (SC 433 - (P5))
The Office for National Statistics figures for the three months to September showed the Scottish jobless rate stood at 7.2%.
It is from the National Center for Health Statistics, the Center for Disease Control, etc.
New figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for the first quarter of 2010 show 27.5% of the working population in Wales is employed by the public sector, compared to the UK average of 21.2%.
While birth rates for almost all other age groups are at historic lows, according to a 2012 report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the rate for women in their late 30s and early 40s is on the rise.
On Thursday, the Office for National Statistics will release its first estimates for how much the economy grew in the first three months of this year.
The study was conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics, which as part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention regularly uses telephone surveys as a source of information about public health trends.
In 1995, a review body submitted a ten-year action plan to the Management and Coordination Agency, which has overall responsibility for Japanese statistics (as well as, bizarrely, for traffic safety and the welfare of the elderly).
The Office for National Statistics figures showed that the amount spent online accounted for 10.1% of all retail spending, excluding fuel.
The NAPF figures chime with those published last September by the Office for National Statistics in its annual survey of pension schemes, for 2011.
The state-court civil caseload increased 4.6% to 18 million cases in 2007, the latest year for which statistics are available, according to the National Center for State Courts.
The MPs raised concerns about the dual role of the UK Statistics Authority - which produces data through its Office for National Statistics arm and also monitors statistics - that leaves it effectively reporting on itself.
And it said that the Office for National Statistics had made its migration statistics clearer, so that it was more easy for students to be identified in emigration flows "to give a more accurate measure of the contribution of students to overall net migration".
Meanwhile, PSA president, Chief Superintendent Kevin Morris, has attacked performance indicators as "collecting statistics for the sake of statistics".
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not yet published its figures for retail sales in November, but for some time it has been painting a more reassuring picture than the BRC (see chart).
Recent figures from the Office for National Statistics suggested people in the UK were living in good health for longer.
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