Educational attainment is an important social determinant of maternal, newborn, and child health 1 – 3 . As a tool for promoting gender equity, it has gained increasing traction in popular media, international aid strategies, and global agenda-setting 4 – 6 . The global health agenda is increasingly focused on evidence of precision public health, which illustrates the subnational distribution of disease and illness 7 , 8 ; however, an agenda focused on future equity must integrate comparable evidence on the distribution of social determinants of health 9 – 11 . Here we expand on the available precision SDG evidence by estimating the subnational distribution of educational attainment, including the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling, across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017. Previous analyses have focused on geographical disparities in average attainment across Africa or for specific countries, but—to our knowledge—no analysis has examined the subnational proportions of individuals who completed specific levels of education across all low- and middle-income countries 12 – 14 . By geolocating subnational data for more than 184 million person-years across 528 data sources, we precisely identify inequalities across geography as well as within populations. Analyses of the proportions of individuals who have completed key levels of schooling across all low- and middle-income countries from 2000 to 2017 reveal inequalities across countries as well as within populations.

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绘制低收入和中等收入国家的教育差异图


教育程度是孕产妇、新生儿和儿童健康的重要社会决定因素 1 – 3 。作为促进性别平等的工具，它在大众媒体、国际援助战略和全球议程制定中越来越受到关注 4 – 6 。全球卫生议程越来越关注精准公共卫生的证据，这说明了疾病的次国家分布 7 , 8 ；然而，关注未来公平的议程必须整合有关健康问题社会决定因素分布的可比证据 9 – 11 。在这里，我们通过估计 2000 年至 2017 年所有低收入和中等收入国家受教育程度的地方分布（包括完成关键教育水平的个人比例）来扩展现有的精确可持续发展目标证据。之前的分析主要集中在非洲或特定国家的平均教育程度存在地域差异，但据我们所知，没有任何分析研究过所有低收入和中等收入国家完成特定教育水平的个人的次国家比例 12 – 14 。通过对 528 个数据源中超过 1.84 亿人年的次国家级数据进行地理定位，我们准确地识别了跨地理区域以及人口内部的不平等现象。对 2000 年至 2017 年所有低收入和中等收入国家完成关键教育水平的个人比例的分析揭示了国家之间以及人口内部的不平等。