Description
This indicator measures the government’s commitment to supporting continuing training and education for students and workers.
Relationship to Economic Growth
Continuing vocation education, workforce training, informal training and tertiary education are crucial for increasing workforce productivity and ensuring that the skills of a workforce are well matched with the needs of the market.44 There is a clear connection between vocational education and training and economic growth in a country as additional training leads to increases in firm productivity and household income.45 Additionally, continuing education can lead to reductions in poverty by allowing lower skilled workers to access higher skilled, more productive jobs that provide greater returns.46
Methodology
Indicator Institution Methodology
These data measure specifically the percentage of youth and adults from 15-64 years old participating in training, non-formal education, or formal education in the last 12 months. Non-formal education and training activities are any sustained and organized learning activities that do not correspond to formal education, as defined below. These may take place both within and outside education institutions and cater to people of all ages, including work-skills, literacy, life skills, and more. Formal education is defined as education provided by any system of schools, colleges or universities, including joint programs that involve part-time employment and part-time participation in the education program. The data are gathered from both administrative sources and household surveys. This indicator is sourced from the World Bank’s Databank: https://databank.worldbank.org/id/50213e0c.
MCC Methodology
MCC uses the most recent data point in the past six years (since 2019)47
This indicator measures specifically “Participation rate of youth and adults in formal and non-formal education and training in the previous 12 months, both sexes (%)” which corresponds to SDG 4.3.1. For FY26, MCC first determines if a country has a value reported in 2019 or later.48 If so, the most recent data available within those years are used. If a country does not have data at any point since 2019, it does not receive an FY26 score. As better data become available, backward revisions to historical data are made.