Well Educated Citizens and Skills Revolution underpinned by Science, Technology and Innovation
Goal 2 of Agenda 2063, contributing to Prosperous Africa.
About this goal
While the overall performance on this goal was only 24%, the continent registered good performance in basic education, with enrolment rates increasing from 76.8% in 2013 to 80.8% in 2019, although falling below the 2019 target of 90.7%. Overall performance of the continent on increasing enrolment rates in pre-school and secondary school was weak, recorded at 9.5% and 8.2%% respectively. Enrolment rates at pre-school and secondary-school level rose marginally from 39% and 25.7% in 2013 to 43.4% and 29.4% in 2019 respectively. In the same way, the 6.9% increase in secondary school net enrolment rates, up from 22.1% in 2013, denotes a deficit of 85% from the 2019 target.
Indicators tracking this goal
Secondary education completion
Secondary education completion, tracked toward the Agenda 2063 target for 2033.