New research released today by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report on the occasion of the Transforming Education Summit (TES + 4) highlights a continued decline in international aid to education, with a decrease by 8% in 2024 compared with the previous year, while aid to basic education (comprising only pre-school, primary and lower secondary levels) fell by 15%.
Sharp decline in international aid to education
In total, UNESCO’s new projection shows that global aid to education will decline by up to 30% between 2023 and 2027. Low- and lower-middle-income countries have already lost over a fifth (21%) of the aid to education levels they were receiving in 2023. For some countries, including Afghanistan, Liberia, Mali and…