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There are at least two excellent sources of free education data on the web. Both UNESCO and the World Bank have extensive collections of data available in easily downloadable format. Both sets of data include numerous tables, which have a large variety of data at a national level with time series. Both UNESCO and the World Bank also have tables devoted to the Millennium Development Goals -- the World Bank provides data at the country level while UNESCO provides aggregated regional data. UNICEF provides data on education as well, but it is not easily captured as a data file.

UNESCO -- the main UNESCO site is provides a list of data table available. All are downloadable as Excel files and most are also available in HTML for low bandwidth users or as an interactive web-interface to construct tailor-made data tables.  The UNESCO site is available at http://portal.unesco.org/uis/ev.php?URL_ID=5187&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201

World Bank -- The World Bank data uses much material from UNESCO and incorporates it with data from other sources. The world bank data is available for down load mainly on a country by country basis. The World Bank has an index of available material with links to each of the data bases available at http://devdata.worldbank.org/edstats/about_data.asp  The World Bank also provides time series data in the World Development Indicators (WDI) . The most recent year's data is available on a country by country level from various links at http://www.worldbank.org/data/databytopic/databytopic.html 

UNICEF -- The UNICEF page provides a set of "At a Glance" data on population, nutrition, health, education, etc. as it affects children. This data is available only country by country and is not easily converted into a file. The UNICEF data is available at http://www.unicef.org/statistics/index.html .

United Nations -- Data on the educational indicators related to the Millennium Development Goals is available at http://unstats.un.org/unsd/mi/mi_goals.asp .