#4: Quality Education “Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all”

#5: Gender Equality “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”

For this data story, I want to explore the differences in education quality and access among countries with different economic levels and practices. To do this, I focused on 9 countries and compared their expenditure on education and inequality. The 9 countries I focused on are Luxembourg, the US, Greece, Czechia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea, Tuvalu, Somalia, and Burundi (see map). I also want to explore gender inequalities in education by looking at how the enrollment of men and women into schools differs and has changed over time.

Government spending on education: this dataset includes data on government spending on all levels of education. “edu_spending_gdp” is the total annual expenditure as a percentage of the countries GDP.

Gender gap in primary, secondary and tertiary education: this dataset includes data on the enrollment divide between female and male students in different levels of education. Values including “f” are regarding the enrollment of female students and “m” are regarding the enrollment of male students, with the respective “_level-of-education” in which they are enrolled.

Inequality in education: this dataset includes data on the inequelity of education, measured with the Atkinson index. “ineq_edu” is this value on a scale from 0 to 1, with higher values indicating higher inequality.

GDP per capita: this dataset includes GDP data for all countries.

Average government expenditure on education over 10 years

Average enrollment over 10 years

Average gender inequality (Atkinson index) over 10 years

Average GDP per capita over 10 years

(I could only get the pink color to work)

# A tibble: 9 × 5
  latitude longitude location                     marker_color marker_size
     <dbl>     <dbl> <chr>                        <chr>              <dbl>
1    -3.37     29.9  Burundi                      deeppink              10
2    49.8      15.5  Czechia                      deeppink              10
3    -4.04     21.8  Democratic Republic of Congo deeppink              10
4    39.1      21.8  Greece                       deeppink              10
5     9.95     -9.70 Guinea                       deeppink              10
6    49.8       6.13 Luxembourg                   deeppink              10
7     5.15     46.2  Somalia                      deeppink              10
8    -7.11    178.   Tuvalu                       deeppink              10
9    38.8     -96.5  USA                          deeppink              10

Average GDP per capita over the past 10 years

Average government expenditure on education over the past 10 years