21 Sep 2024 In 2015, the Education 2030 Framework for Action, the roadmap for achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4, called on countries to establish national targets—benchmarks to address "the accountability deficit associated with longer-term targets." The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Global Education Monitoring (GEM) Report, which are mandated to jointly monitor progress towards SDG 4, have supported countries in fulfilling their commitment to establish national SDG 4 benchmarks. The benchmarking process began shortly after the UN General Assembly adopted the SDG 4 monitoring framework in 2017. In addition, the UIS supported UNESCO Bangkok and the Learning and Education 2030+ Networking Group (formerly known as the Regional Thematic Working Group on Education 2030+) to consult countries on additional region-specific priority issues for monitoring. As a result of the consultations during 2022, four indicators were identified for regional benchmarking, with minimum benchmark values established for each of the three subregions. This brochure summarises the findings from the second global assessment of the country's progress towards the benchmarks for Asia and the Pacific. The assessment uses a total of eight indicators: seven of the global benchmark indicators plus the one indicator on school connectivity emerging from the 2022 UN General Assembly (UNGA) Transforming Education Summit. It covers the period since 2015 and reviews the probability that each country will achieve its 2025 benchmark or – where such a benchmark was not set –the value they would have achieved if they had progressed at the historical (2000–15) rate of the fastest improving 25% of countries. Four categories capture the speed of progress – and its implication for the probability of achieving the benchmark –and two categories recognise the non-availability of data. In addition, this brochure presents the country's progress toward the benchmarks set at the sub-regional level.