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Quality Education

UN Sustainable Development Goal 4

SDG 4 aims to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education. EU policy supports this through Erasmus+, the European Education Area, and digital skills frameworks.

Linked legislation

20

2 primary

Indicators tracked

1

Countries compared

27

Linked EU Legislation

LegislationReferenceStageRelevance
A competitive digital single market - eGovernment as a spearhead2011/2178(INI)first_reading_eprelated
A European information society for growth and employment2005/2167(INI)first_reading_eprelated
A European Retail Action Plan for the benefit of all actors2013/2093(INI)first_reading_eprelated
A new Digital Agenda for Europe: 2015.eu2009/2225(INI)first_reading_eprelated
A new European innovation agenda2023/2799(RSP)first_reading_eprelated
A new skills agenda for Europe2017/2002(INI)first_reading_epdirect
A social Europe in a Digital world2020/2550(RSP)first_reading_eprelated
Abuse of new technologies to manipulate and radicalize young people through hate speech and antidemocratic discourse2024/2887(RSP)first_reading_eprelated
Accessibility of public sector bodies' websites2012/0340(COD)adoptedrelated
Addressing geo-blocking and other forms of discrimination based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment within the internal market2016/0152(COD)adoptedrelated
Amending Regulation (EU) No 910/2014 as regards establishing a framework for a European Digital Identity2021/0136(COD)adoptedrelated
Amendment of Decision No 1639/2006/EC establishing a Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (2007-2013) and of Regulation (EC) No 680/2007 laying down general rules for the granting of Community financial aid in the field of the trans-European transport and energy networks2011/0301(COD)adoptedrelated
Amendment of Directive 2003/98/EC on re-use of public sector information2011/0430(COD)adoptedrelated
An integrated parcel delivery market for the growth of e-commerce in the EU2013/2043(INI)first_reading_eprelated
Attacks against information systems and repealing Council Framework Decision 2005/222/JHA2010/0273(COD)adoptedrelated
Authorising Member States to ratify, in the interest of the European Union, the Second Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime on enhanced co-operation and disclosure of electronic evidence2021/0383(NLE)first_reading_eprelated
Better internet for children2020/2547(RSP)first_reading_eprelated
Closing the digital gender gap: women’s participation in the digital economy2019/2168(INI)first_reading_epdirect
Collective management of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online uses in the internal market2012/0180(COD)adoptedrelated
Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)2024/0035(COD)first_reading_eprelated

Digital Skills(% of individuals)

CountryValueRelativeTrend
IS85.4
Stable
NO82.5
Improving
Netherlands79.4
Improving
CH76.8
Stable
Finland76.5
Improving
UK73.9
Improving
Sweden72.4
Improving
Germany70.2
Improving
Denmark70.0
Declining
Austria65.5
Stable
Luxembourg64.6
Declining
Czechia62.1
Improving
Estonia61.6
Improving
Belgium60.8
Stable
EA58.8
Improving
France57.3
Improving
Spain57.2
Improving
Lithuania56.1
Improving
Malta55.8
Improving
Slovenia55.1
Improving
Slovakia53.9
Declining
Ireland53.4
Improving
Croatia53.4
Declining
Portugal51.8
Improving
Greece50.5
Improving
ME49.6
Stable
Hungary48.7
Declining
RS45.7
Improving
Cyprus45.0
Improving
Poland44.5
Stable
Latvia43.0
Declining
Italy41.5
Declining
TR35.8
Improving
MK31.6
Declining
Romania31.0
Improving
Bulgaria29.4
Improving
XK27.6
Improving
BA24.1
Stable
AL21.5
Stable

Data sourced from Eurostat SDI Dashboard and UN SDG Indicators Database.