The Learning Curve: Pearson

Lessons in country performance in education

Welcome to our programme of analysis of school systems’ performance in a global context. We’re sharing the data and conclusions to help researchers and policymakers identify the common elements of effective education.

The content in this website was created by the Economist Intelligence Unit, unless indicated otherwise.

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The report

This report, published by Pearson and written by the Economist Intelligence Unit, is part of a wide-ranging programme of quantitative and qualitative analysis, entitled The Learning Curve.

The index

The Global Index of Cognitive Skills and Educational Attainment compares the performance of 39 countries and one region (Hong Kong) on two categories of education

Data visualisation tools

Our data visualisation tools have been developed using a selection of core indicators from The Learning Curve’s data bank.

Country profiles

Our country infographic profiles section provides a unique graphical overview for some of the main data points across all the individual countries featured in the research.

Case studies

View The Learning Curve global education case studies.