Brief: State of Education for Crisis-Affected Children and Adolescents: Access and Learning Outcomes, Global Estimates 2025 Update

Education Cannot Wait's Global Estimates 2025 Update Advocacy Brief reveals that the number of school-aged children in crisis worldwide requiring urgent support to access quality education has reached 234 million—an estimated increase of 35 million over the past three years. Refugees, internally displaced children, girls, and children with disabilities remain among the most affected. ECW’s Global Estimates provide evidence-based trends over time to support policymaking and ensure that crisis-affected children and education in emergencies and protracted crises are accurately reflected in global education data. The brief emphasizes that these growing needs are rapidly outpacing education aid funding and calls for urgent additional financing to address this global silent emergency.