WORLD Education Laws 2023

The WORLD Education Laws 2023 dataset was created to assess progress on constitutional rights, laws, and policies affecting access to education through a systematic review of legislation governing education across all 193 UN countries as of January 2023. The dataset covers tuition-free and compulsory education from pre-primary through the completion of secondary, fee-free education from primary through the completion of secondary, prohibitions of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in education, and prohibitions of disability-based discrimination, the right to inclusive education, and guarantees of integration in education. A public use legislative repository is also included providing the legal documents used to code each country. The WORLD Policy Analysis Center (WORLD) is committed to improving the quantity and quality of globally comparative data available to policymakers, citizens, civil society, and researchers on laws and policies that work to support human rights, including economic opportunity, social and civic engagement, human health, development, well-being, and equity.