Measuring and forecasting progress towards the education-related SDG targets

Education is a key dimension of well-being and a crucial indicator of development 1–4 . The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) prioritize progress in education, with a new focus on inequality 5–7 . Here we model the within-country distribution of years of schooling, and use this model to explore educational inequality since 1970 and to forecast progress towards the education-related 2030 SDG targets. We show that although the world is largely...