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UNESCO UIS / Education, science and culture indicators by country and year

Data records for UIS indicators (education enrolment, completion, literacy, out-of-school, teachers, spending, R&D, culture) by country or region and year. Answer: records (indicatorId, geoUnit, year, value, magnitude, qualifier), hints (warnings, e.g. an indicator not found) and, with indicatorMetadata true, the indicators' names and definitions. Indicator codes are listed in the UIS data browser (databrowser.uis.unesco.org) and the API docs, e.g. CR.1 (completion rate, primary), LR.AG15T99 (adult literacy rate), XGDP.FSGOV (education spending as % of GDP). An unknown code answers records [] with a hint ($0). Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), licensed CC BY-SA 4.0: credit UIS with a link, and data you republish stays CC BY-SA. Free, no key.

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end query · optional
Last year, included.
footnotes query · optional
true adds footnotes per data point.
geoUnit query · optional
Country ISO3 codes or region ids, e.g. ["FRA","DEU"]. See unesco-uis-geo-units.
indicator query · required
Indicator codes, e.g. ["CR.1"].
indicatorMetadata query · optional
true adds each indicator's name and definition.
start query · optional
First year, included.

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