Official Development Aid for Post-Secondary Education from DAC Donors

Gross ODA aid disbursement data for post-secondary education from DAC donors, measured in current U.S. dollars. The dataset covers higher education and advanced technical and managerial training. It is compiled by the Africa Development Indicators organization from World Bank sources.

Use Cases

• Analyzing annual trends in total ODA disbursement for post-secondary education from all DAC donors.
• Correlating aid amounts for higher education with other economic indicators using the time-series structure.
• Comparing the scale of funding for advanced technical training versus general higher education, if such breakdowns exist in the data.

Strengths

• Data is reported in a standardized, comparable unit (current U.S. dollars).
• Focuses on a specific, policy-relevant aid category (post-secondary education) from a defined donor group (DAC).

Limitations

• The total number of data points, time range, and geographic coverage are unknown.
• Lacks granularity into individual donor contributions, recipient countries, or sub-sectors within post-secondary education.

Provenance

Source

World Bank, compiled by Africa Development Indicators.

Collection Method

Aggregation of reported Official Development Assistance (ODA) data from Development Assistance Committee (DAC) donors.

Geography

Global, aggregated from DAC donor countries.