Key indicators

202220202013
School Meals

Number of pre-primary, primary and secondary school children receiving school meal

Enrolment

Children enrolled in primary schools around the world

Jobs

No record for the number of jobs created in year the

Funding

Annual financial investment in school meals

Policy Frameworks

Countries adopting a school meal policy

Complementary Activities

Implemented in conjunction with school meals

SDG4

Proportion of school-attending children receiving school meals (coverage).

Data view

CountryRegion

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Emerging Research on School Health and Nutrition

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Value for money

This indicator aims to quantify the returns of national school meal programmes across multiple sectors, including education, health, social protection, and agriculture. The economic methodology and analyses build upon the global model previously developed jointly by World Food Programme, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Research Consortium for School Health and Nutrition. The study is currently being finalised in eight African countries that is, Malawi, Niger, Cote D’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Burundi, Namibia, Sierra Leone, and Mozambique.
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BOND-KIDS

Biomarkers of Nutrition for Development-Knowledge Indicating Dietary Sufficiency (BOND-KIDS)

School-age (between 5 and 19 years) represents a range of critical stages in both physical and neurological development. Each developmental stage is nutritionally sensitive and demands food security, ensuring stable access to and availability of a high-quality diet to meet nutritional requirements. The BOND programme, an international collaboration led by the Paediatric Growth and Nutrition Branch of the US Department of Health and Human Services, began in 2010 with a focus on discovery, development, and implementation of reliable and valid biomarkers to assess nutrient exposure, status, function, and effect. The BOND-KIDS project continues the effort to understand and harmonize biomarkers with a focus on school-age children, to address a range of issues impacting the domestic and global food and nutrition enterprise, including food insecurity.
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Learning-Adjusted Years of Schooling (LAYS)

The standard summary metric of education-based human capital used in macro analyses—the average number of years of schooling in a population—is based only on quantity. But ignoring schooling quality turns out to be a major omission. As recent research shows, students in different countries who have completed the same number of years of school often have vastly different learning outcomes. This indicator combines quantity and quality of schooling into a single easy-to-understand metric of progress, revealing considerably larger cross-country education gaps than the standard metric. The cross-country comparisons produced by this measure are robust to different ways of adjusting for learning (for example, by using different international assessments or different summary learning indicators), and the assumptions and implications of LAYS are consistent with other evidence, including other approaches to quality adjustment.