UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon launched his Education First initiative today. To support the rationale for choosing access and learning as two of the three key aspects of the new Initiative, we have collected some key statistics below. These include a few new figures from the 2012 EFA Global Monitoring Report, to be released on October 16.

You can help putting Education First by downloading the flyer here, and sharing it with your followers on Twitter and Facebook.

Also remember to have a look at the World Inequality Database on Education (WIDE), launched today which shows the extent to which girls, the poorest and remote miss out on an education.