SDG 4
Quality Education
Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education.
Ireland: Challenges remain· Stagnating
Official figures from the Sustainable Development Report 2026 (Sachs, Lafortune, Fuller, Iablonovski — SDSN), shown as published — only the layout is ours. The report is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. This site is not affiliated with or endorsed by SDSN. Imported from their published database on 2026-09-21.
What this goal covers
- •Ensure every child completes free, quality primary and secondary school
- •Guarantee access to quality early childhood education
- •Ensure equal access to affordable technical, vocational and university education
Simplified from the UN's official targets for this goal.
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Goal 4 score, by country
Ireland is in rank group 15 of 194 (out of 194 countries with a score for this goal).
What makes up Ireland's score (93 out of 100)
The average of 8 indicator scores, one per official target area. Each bar scores Ireland from 0 to 100 on that indicator: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0.
- 4.7 Education for sustainability · Environment and sustainability taught in schools (score)75.4% (2023)100
- 4.1 Secondary education · Lower secondary completion rate100.8% (2022)99
- 4.a School facilities · Schools with internet for teaching97% (2022)97
- 4.1 Access to school · Children out of primary school1.8% (2022)95
- 4.1 Secondary education · Adults who completed upper secondary school83% (2023)94
- 4.2 Early childhood · Pre-primary school enrolment95.4% gross (2020)93
- 4.3 Higher education · Tertiary education enrolment77.6% gross (2022)89
- 4.1 Primary education · Primary completion rate93.7% (2022)78
3 other indicators for this goal have no recent data for Ireland, so they aren't in the average.
Simplified score, may contain errors. See how it's built
Chart data: World Bank Open Data (CC BY 4.0) and the UN SDG Global Database (UNdata terms). Each goal score (0–100, 100 = best) averages a country's scores on several official indicators, one per main target area of the goal (11 for this goal). Each indicator is scored against a range set by the data: the best 10% of countries count as 100, the worst 5% as 0. Latest value per country since 2010; fetched 2026-09-22. The scores are calculated by this site; the underlying values are the sources', unchanged. How the scores are built →
- Pre-primary school enrolment (WB SE.PRE.ENRR; 4.2 Early childhood)
- Primary completion rate (WB SE.PRM.CMPT.ZS; 4.1 Primary education)
- Lower secondary completion rate (WB SE.SEC.CMPT.LO.ZS; 4.1 Secondary education)
- Adult literacy rate (WB SE.ADT.LITR.ZS; 4.6 Adult literacy)
- Trained teachers in primary education (WB SE.PRM.TCAQ.ZS; 4.c Teachers)
- Children out of primary school (WB SE.PRM.UNER.ZS; 4.1 Access to school)
- Adults who completed upper secondary school (WB SE.SEC.CUAT.UP.ZS; 4.1 Secondary education)
- Tertiary education enrolment (WB SE.TER.ENRR; 4.3 Higher education)
- Youth literacy rate (15-24) (WB SE.ADT.1524.LT.ZS; 4.6 Youth literacy)
- Schools with internet for teaching (UN SE_ACS_INTNT; 4.a School facilities)
- Environment and sustainability taught in schools (score) (UN SE_SGE_ENVSUST; 4.7 Education for sustainability)
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