World Bank Group
Azevedo, J., Hasan, A., Goldemberg, D., Iqbal, S., Geven, K.
2020-6-18
Report on the results of simulations considering different lengths of school closure (3, 5, and 7 months) and different levels of mitigation effectiveness (mostly remote learning), resulting in an optimistic, intermediate, and pessimistic global scenario. Using data on 157 countries, we find that both the global level of schooling as well as learning will fall. COVID-19 could result in a loss of between 0.3 and 0.9 years of schooling adjusted for quality, bringing down the effective years of basic schooling that students achieve during their lifetime from 7.9 years to between 7.0 and 7.6 years. Close to 7 million students from primary up to secondary education could drop out due to the income shock of the pandemic alone.
- COVID-19 Pandemic
- Education
- Global
- High-Income Countries (HICs)
- Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs)
- Adolescents (boys and/or girls 10-19 years old)
- Children (boys and/or girls 1-10 years old)
- Research
- Report
