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Data for 2017

Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching, 2017

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of primary schools with internet access that can be used for teaching — SDG indicator 4.a.1. It describes the classroom a child learns in rather than the child.

Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching, 2017 covers 74 countries. 35 countries share the highest reading, 100.00; Burundi is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 98.90. Against 2016, 27 values changed (14 up, 13 down), 12 countries joined, 20 left.

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Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching · Data for 2017

Highest35 countries share it

100.00

LowestBurundi

0.00

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching, 2017, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 74 countries · select a heading to sort

Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AndorraANDSouthern Europe100.00
AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand100.00
AustriaAUTWestern Europe100.00
BahrainBHRWestern Asia100.00
BelgiumBELWestern Europe100.00
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean100.00
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia100.00
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe100.00
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe100.00
FinlandFINNorthern Europe100.00
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe100.00
GrenadaGRDCaribbean100.00
IcelandISLNorthern Europe100.00
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe100.00
MacauMACEastern Asia100.00
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia100.00
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia100.00
MonacoMCOWestern Europe100.00
MontserratMSRCaribbean100.00
NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe100.00
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand100.00
OmanOMNWestern Asia100.00
PolandPOLEastern Europe100.00
QatarQATWestern Asia100.00
Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean100.00

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Andorrashared100.00
  2. Australiashared100.00
  3. Austriashared100.00
  4. Belgiumshared100.00
  5. Bahrainshared100.00

Lowest

  1. Burundi0.00
  2. Myanmar0.19
  3. Sierra Leone0.28
  4. Zambia5.81
  5. Comoros8.03

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 98.90. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +12 / −20countries joined / left
  • 27values changed, of 62 in both
  • 14 · 13rose · fell
  • 35unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Comoros+ Cabo Verde+ Costa Rica+ Grenada+ Jordan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Sri Lanka+ Lithuania+ Morocco+ Maldives+ Myanmar+ Sierra Leone− Angola− Burkina Faso− Bermuda− Dominica− Dominican Republic− Egypt− Guinea− Guatemala− Honduras− Italy− Latvia− Mexico− Marshall Islands− Mongolia− Niger− Niue− Norway− Paraguay− El Salvador− Eswatini

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • 40 distinct values among 74

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 35 countries share 100.00. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 74 countries has every column.

05The files

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Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2017). Primary Schools with Internet for Teaching, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-internet-primary/2017

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