webmastrick/african-education-dashboard

# 🎓 African Education Dashboard — 45 Countries (2010–2024) > A 3-page interactive Power BI dashboard analyzing education access, school dropout rates, gender parity, digital divide, and the impact of global shocks (COVID-19, Ebola, Sahel security crises) across 45 African countries from 2010 to 2024. --- ## 📊 Dashboard Preview ### Page 1 — Vue Continentale ### Page 2 — Genre & Parité ### Page 3 — Chocs & Fracture Numérique --- ## 🎯 Project Objective Access to education remains one of the most unequal dimensions of development in Africa. This dashboard provides a continental, multi-dimensional view of education systems — enabling NGOs, policymakers, UN agencies, and development finance institutions to: - Identify which countries and regions lag furthest behind - Track gender parity progress over 15 years - Measure the educational impact of COVID-19, Ebola, and armed conflicts - Correlate education investment (% GDP) with enrollment outcomes - Monitor the digital divide in school internet access --- ## 🔍 Key Findings | Indicator | Continental Average | |---|---| | Primary enrollment rate | **81.6%** | | Gender parity index | **0.93** (girls slightly underrepresented) | | Primary dropout rate | **17.4%** | | Education spending | **4.94% of GDP** | ### 3 Major Insights **1. North Africa leads, Central Africa stagnates** The gender parity matrix (Page 2) reveals a stark regional divide: | Region | Parity Index 2024 | |---|---| | Afrique Australe | **1.04** — girls outperform boys | | Afrique du Nord | **0.99** — near-perfect parity | | Afrique de l'Est | **0.95** — slight gap | | Afrique de l'Ouest | **0.91** — persistent gap | | Afrique Centrale | **0.82** — critical, no improvement since 2010 | **2. COVID-19 created a visible continental setback in 2020** All enrollment curves dip in 2020 across every region — the clearest educational shock in 15 years of data. The Togo dropout curve shows a sharp fall in 2020, reflecting school closures and …