Olga Ovsyannikova

UNESCO Institute for Statistics

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the official and trusted source of internationally-comparable indicators, methodologies and standards for the Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4) and key targets related to science (SDG 9), culture (SDG 11) and communication. We work directly with national statistical offices, line ministries and international organizations around the world to collect data while developing a wide array of methodologies and standards to produce the internationally-comparable indicators needed to track progress, especially in the field of education, at the global, regional and national levels. As a custodian agency for SDG indicators, UIS global databases are publicly available. We produce the indicators to fuel the policies and investments needed to transform lives and propel the world towards its development goals.