Education - Intelpoint

446 Ghanaian scholars are in the US as of the 2023/24 academic session, making up 9.5% of the total number of African scholars in the US.
In the 2000/01 academic session, Ghana was the 7th leading source of African scholars with only 75 Ghanaian scholars in the US.
Nearly 1 in African scholars in the US is a Ghanaian.
Ghana scholarly population in the US have grown by 497%.

Egypt remained the lead African country with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with 942 recorded in the 2023/2024 academic session.
As of the 2023/2024 academic session, 4,679 international scholars in the United States of America are from Africa.
A total of 931 international scholars in the US as of the same session are from Nigeria.
Africa produced 4.2% of the international scholars in the US for the session under review.

Nigeria has been the second leading source of African scholars in the US since 2008/09 to 2023/24, after overtaking South Africa.
By the 2023/24 academic session, the number of Nigerian scholars in the US reached 931.
Given past trends, it’s not unrealistic to predict that Nigeria could surpass Egypt in the near future, just as it did South Africa.
Approximately 20% of the African scholars in the US are Nigerians.

China continued to lead globally with the highest number of international scholars in the US, with almost 21% of the international scholars as of 2023/2024.
China has been the lead country with the highest number of scholars in the US globally in the last 24 years.
India is next after China, with 17,735 scholars in US who hailed from India making up 15.8% of the population.
Only 1% of the scholars in the US are from Nigeria

No candidate scored above 300 until 2015, with just 40 high scorers that year out of over 1.46 million candidates.
2025 marked the highest ever with 17,025 candidates scoring above 300, nearly double the count in 2024 and more than triple 2023.
From 2022 to 2025, above-300 scorers consistently remained over 5,000 each year, showing a steady rise in top scores.
Despite the growth in numbers of JAMB candidates, high scorers still make up less than 1% annually.

Over 36% of candidates earned a Second Class Lower.
One in every 27 candidates achieved a First Class Honours.
More than 16% secured a Second Class Upper.
181 candidates were absent for the exam, roughly 2.5% of the total.
327 candidates earned a Conditional Pass, requiring further requirements for full qualification.

The total number of out-of-school children in primary education in Lesotho rose to 96,388 in 2023, an increase of 40,511 from 2015.
The number of children out of school in 2021 saw a sharp rise to 92,290, up from 69,906 in 2020.
The gender gap remained relatively stable, with more boys than girls out of school each year.
The overall trend shows a steady increase in the total number of children out of school, especially in the past five years.

Key Takeaways:

In 2023, Kiribati spent the largest % of its GDP on education, amounting to 16.39%.
Kiribati, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu each allocated over 10% of their GDP to education.
Bolivia and the Solomon Islands each directed around 8.3% of their GDP spending towards education.
The top ten countries dedicated approximately 6.6% to 16.4% of their GDP to education.

Key takeaways:

Throughout the decade, Nigeria saw a consistent decline in education funding as a percentage of GDP.
The most substantial allocation occurred in 2012 at 0.55% of GDP.
The lowest allocation was noted in 2022 at 0.35% of GDP.
There was a brief recovery from 2017 to 2018 before the downward trend resumed in 2019.
Over the decade, the overall reduction in education spending relative to GDP was approximately 36.5%.
Nigeria's education spending as a percentage of GDP is significantly lower than the UNESCO recommendation of 4-6% for developing nations.

Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest number of countries (37) expected to face a teacher shortage at the [primary levels.
In Latin America & the Caribbean, 18 countries are expected to have enough primary teachers.
Europe & Northern America is one of the best-performing after Latin America & the Caribbean, with 17 countries expected to meet primary teachers' demand.
If this trend continues, millions of children will struggle to access quality primary education, reinforcing cycles of poverty and limited economic mobility.
A lack of teachers doesn’t just mean fewer classrooms; it also means overburdened educators, lower student engagement, and declining educational outcomes.

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