Access to Education 2026 data was created to assess progress on constitutional rights, laws, and policies affecting access to education through a systematic review of legislation governing education across all 193 UN countries as of February 2026. The dataset covers tuition-free and compulsory education from pre-primary through the completion of secondary and fee-free education from primary through the completion of secondary. Equal Futures is grateful to WORLD for building the original databases that laid the foundation for this data update and for sourcing the full-text legislation that Equal Futures used to code this database. WORLD’s public use legislative repository is also available for download through Harvard dataverse (https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/LRXBGS) which provides the legal documents used to code each country. Earlier WORLD data as of 2023 is also available for prohibitions of gender discrimination and sexual harassment in education, and prohibitions of disability-based discrimination, right to inclusive education, and guarantees of integration in education. Check back for updates to this data.
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