SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL (SDG) 4

COUNTRY PROFILE

Country or territory Kuwait

Region Northern Africa and Western Asia
Income group High income

National Context
Life expectancy at birth, Poverty headcount ratio at $3.20 a Country
Rural (% of population)
total (years) day (2011 PPP) (% of population)
100

80
74.8
Data for the
60
0- country is not
available
40

20

0
Year: 2017 Year: 2017

Note: This section includes the main demographic and socioeconomic indicators of the country for the last available year.
Sources: (1) rural population and life expectancy: UN Population Division; (2) poverty headcount ratio: World Bank.

Education System

Official entrance age (years) Government expenditure on education as…

Country
16 15 % of GDP % of total government expenditure
14
12
11
10
8 6
6 4 Data for the Data for the
4 country is not country is not
2 available available
0
Pre-primary Primary Lower Upper
Secondary Secondary

Year: 2018

Source: UIS and UOE Surveys of Formal Education

4.1 - Free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education

Indicator 4.1.1 - Proportion of children and young people achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in reading, by sex
Country

(c) at the end of lower

(a) in Grade 2 or 3 (b) at the end of primary
education secondary education
What is this?
The bars represent the percentage of students in each level achieving
- - - minimum proficiency level in reading and mathematics.
Data for the Data for the Data for the Minimum proficiency level (MPL) is the benchmark of basic knowledge
- country is not
available
- country is not
available
- country is not
available
in a domain (mathematics, reading, etc.) measured through learning ?
- - assessments. Currently, there are no common standards validated by
-
the international community or countries. The MPL used for this chart
was set by each of the projects providing the data.

Indicator 4.1.1 - Proportion of children and young people achieving at least a minimum proficiency level in mathematics, by sex

(a) in Grade 2 or 3 (b) at the end of primary (c) at the end of lower
Data sources
education secondary education Various cross-national learning assessments including: Programme
d'analyse des systèmes éducatifs de la CONFEMEN (PASEC), Progress in
11.6 - 19.7 International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), Programme for
Data for the International Student Assessment (PISA), Southern and Eastern Africa
11.9 - country is not 16.4 Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ), Tercer
available Estudio Regional Comparativo y Explicativo (TERCE) and Trends in
11.7 - 18.3
International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS).
0 50 100 % 0 50 100% 0 50 100%
Year: 2015 Year: 2015

Sources: ERCE, PASEC, PIRLS, PISA, SACMEQ and TIMSS

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 4.2 - Quality early childhood development, care and pre-primary education

Indicator 4.2.1 - Proportion of children under 5 years of age who are developmentally on track in health, learning
and psychosocial well-being, by sex Country

What is this?
The slices represent the percentage of children aged 36-59 months who are
developmentally on-track in at least three of the following four domains:
Data for the literacy-numeracy – to identify at least 10 letters of the alphabet, read 4
country is not
available
simple words and recognise and name all numbers from 1 to 10; physical – to ?
pick up small objects easily and are generally well enough to play; socio-
emotional – to undertake simple activities independently, get along with
other children and do not usually kick, bite or hit other children or adults; and
learning – participate in any type of organized learning including early
childhood education, kindergarten or community care.

Source: Early Childhood Development Index from UNICEF’s Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and USAID’s Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS)

Indicator 4.2.2 - Participation rate in organized learning (one year before the official primary entry age), by sex

Country
% % Region
100 84.0 100
79.9 81.2
75.9
What is this?
48.9 49.3 48.8 50.0 49.6 The lines represent the percentage of children in
50 50 the given age range who participate in one or
more organized learning programmes, including
programmes which offer a combination of ?
education and care. Participation in early
childhood education and in primary education are
0 0 both included. The age range will vary by country
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
depending on the official age for entry to primary
Series3 Series2 Series1 Series3 Series2 Series1 education.

Source: UIS and UOE Surveys of Formal Education and UN Population Division’s World Population Prospects

4.3 - Quality TVET and tertiary education

Indicator 4.3.1 - Participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, by sex

Country

- What is this?
The percentage of youth and adults who have participated in a
Data for the
formal or non-formal education and training programme in the ?
- country is not
previous 12 months.
available

-
Data sources
Source: National household surveys coordinated by the EU
Adult Education Survey (AES, target population 25-64 years)
0 50 100 % and OECD Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC, target population 16-65
years).

Sources: Eurostat’s Adult Education Survey (AES), OECD's Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC), national Labour Force Surveys

4.4 - Technical and vocational skills

Indicator 4.4.1 - Proportion of youth and adults with information and communications technology (ICT) skills, by type of skill

Proportion of youth and adults who have... (%)

Country
Created electronic presentation with
Copied or moved a file or Connected and installed new
presentation software
folder devices

Data sources
Data for the Data for the Source: National household surveys. Data
country is not compiled by Eurostat and International
60.0 country is not
available available Telecommunications Union (ITU).

? ? ? The percentage of the population who

The percentage of the population who
The percentage of the population who declared that they can create electronic
declared that they can copy or move a file
declared that they can connect and install presentations with presentation software
or a folder on a desktop computer, a
new devices (e.g. modem, camera, (including text, images, sound,
laptop (portable) computer or a tablet (or
printer) video or charts)
similar handheld computer)

Year: 2017 or most recent year available

Sources: Eurostat and International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

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 4.6 - Youth and adult literacy and numeracy

Indicator 4.6.1 - Percentage of population in a given age group achieving at least a fixed level of
proficiency in functional (a) literacy and (b) numeracy skills, by sex
Country
Literacy Numeracy
What is this?
The slices represent the percentage of the population (aged 15 years
and above) who have achieved or exceeded a given level of proficiency ?
in literacy and numeracy.

Data for the Data for the Data sources

country is not country is not National household surveys coordinated by the OECD Programme for
available available the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) and the
World Bank’s Skills Towards Employment and Productivity (STEP).

Sources: OECD’s Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC), World Bank ’s STEP Skills Measurement Programme (STEP)

4.a - Education facilities

Indicator 4.a.1 - Proportion of schools with access to: (a) electricity; (b) the Internet for pedagogical purposes; (c) computers for
pedagogical purposes; (d) adapted infrastructure and materials for students with disabilities; (e) basic drinking water; (f) single-sex basic
sanitation facilities; and (g) basic handwashing facilities (as per the WASH indicator definitions)

Country
Region

(b) internet for pedagogical (c) computers for (d) adapted infrastructure and
(a) electricity pedagogical purposes materials for students with disabilities

Upper secondary 100.0 - - -

Data for the Data for the Data for the
Lower secondary 100.0 - country is not - country is not - country is not
available available available
Primary 100.0 - - -

Upper secondary 98.1 84.9 93.8 -

Data for the
Lower secondary 86.0 81.6 73.8 - region is not
available
Primary 88.3 73.0 71.2 -

0 50 100 % 0 50 100 % 0 50 100 % 0 50 100 %

(f) single-sex basic

(e) basic drinking sanitation facilities (g) basic handwashing facilities
water (WASH indicator definitions)

Data sources
Administrative data from schools and other providers
Upper secondary 100.0 100.0 100.0 of education or training. Data compiled by the
UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
Lower secondary 100.0 100.0 100.0
Primary 100.0 100.0 100.0

Upper secondary 95.6 99.0 99.6

Lower secondary 93.5 90.0 76.6
Primary 86.5 89.6 80.8

0 50 100 % 0 50 100% 0 50 100 %

Year (country): 2018

Year (region): 2018 or most recent year available
Sources: UIS and UOE Surveys of Formal Education

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 4.b - Scholarships

Indicator 4.b.1 - Volume of official development assistance flows for scholarships, constant US$ Country

1
1
What is this?
Total net official development assistance (ODA) for scholarships in
1
1
donor countries expressed in US dollars at the average annual ?
Data for the exchange rate.
1
country is not
1 available
0 Data sources
0 Administrative data from donor countries and other aid providers on
0 net official development assistance to education. Data compiled by
0 the Development Assistance Committee (DAC) of the Organization
0 for Economic Co-operation and Development from returns
2014 2015 2016 2017 submitted by its member countries and other aid providers.

Sources: The Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)

4.c - Qualified teachers

Indicator 4.c.1 - Proportion of teachers in: (a) pre-primary education; (b) primary education; (c) lower secondary education;
and (d) upper secondary education who have received at least the minimum organized teacher training (e.g. pedagogical
training) pre-service or in-service required for teaching at the relevant level in a given country, by sex Country
Region
(c) lower secondary (d) upper secondary
(a) pre-primary education (b) primary education
education education

- 0 53.3 - -
Data for the Data for the
75.6 81.7 - country is not
country is not -
available available
75.4 78.9 - -

84.2 87.4 83.2 85.2

81.7 85.2 84.9 87.1

81.9 86.0 84.1 86.1

0 50 100% 0 50 100% 0 50 100 % 0 50 100%

Year (country): 2015

Year (region): 2018 or most recent year available

Sources: UIS Surveys of Formal Education

?
What is this? Data sources
Percentage of teachers by level of education taught (pre -primary, primary,
Administrative data from schools and other providers
lower secondary and upper secondary education) who have received at least
of education or training. Data compiled by the
the minimum organized pedagogical teacher training pre-service and in-service
UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
required for teaching at the relevant level in a given country.

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