Country Foundations

Right to education

Universal Declaration of Human Rights, article 26. Not present in the US Constitution.

Note on this measure. Deliberately NOT using CCP EDUCATE, which only asks whether education is mentioned. A guarantee of free or compulsory schooling is the closest thing to a positive right.

Constitutions declaring it
123 / 158
US declares it
0%
US practices it
62%

Does declaring it change anything?

Distribution of practiced scores, split by whether the constitution declares the right. If the two distributions look alike, the words on the page are not doing much work on their own.

Constitutions that declare it (123)
0100
Constitutions that are silent (31)
0100

Mean practiced score: 55% where declared, versus 60% where silent.

What the text actually says

Passages tagged with this topic, from the Constitute Project.

Afghanistan
Article 43

Article 43 Education is the right of all citizens of Afghanistan, which shall be offered up to the B.A. level in the state educational institutes free of charge by the state. To expand balanced education as well as to provide mandatory intermediate education throughout Afghanistan, the state shall design and implement effective programs and prepare the ground for teaching mother tongues in areas where they are spoken.

Article 43

Article 43 Education is the right of all citizens of Afghanistan, which shall be offered up to the B.A. level in the state educational institutes free of charge by the state. To expand balanced education as well as to provide mandatory intermediate education throughout Afghanistan, the state shall design and implement effective programs and prepare the ground for teaching mother tongues in areas where they are spoken.

Country by country

CountryDeclaredPracticed
Afghanistan100%4%
Albania100%68%
Algeria100%68%
Angola100%28%
Argentina100%60%
Armenia100%70%
Azerbaijan100%34%
Bahrain100%60%
Bangladesh100%33%
Belarus100%85%
Belgium100%85%
Benin100%70%
Bhutan100%83%
Bolivia100%36%
Brazil100%41%
Bulgaria100%58%
Burma/Myanmar100%31%
Cambodia100%29%
Cameroon100%58%
Cape Verde100%51%
Central African Republic100%33%
Chad100%35%
Chile100%34%
China100%37%
Colombia100%37%
Costa Rica100%73%
Croatia100%79%
Cuba100%71%
Cyprus100%90%
Democratic Republic of the Congo100%34%
Denmark100%93%
Dominican Republic100%31%
Ecuador100%41%
Egypt100%27%
El Salvador100%27%
Equatorial Guinea100%58%
Estonia100%95%
Eswatini100%33%
Fiji100%55%
Finland100%78%
Gabon100%65%
Georgia100%71%
Ghana100%39%
Greece100%84%
Guatemala100%27%
Guinea100%36%
Guinea-Bissau100%39%
Guyana100%58%
Haiti100%26%
Honduras100%19%
Hungary100%58%
Iceland100%78%
India100%30%
Indonesia100%46%
Iran100%58%
Iraq100%44%
Ireland100%81%
Italy100%82%
Ivory Coast100%38%
Jamaica100%71%