This is the eighth in a series of 15 facts over 15 days that we will be sharing with you to get you up to speed on what’s at stake in 2015.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) and the Education for All Global Monitoring Report
By 2030, we’ll need 27.3 million new teachers to reach the goal of universal primary education. Teachers need to be both recruited and adequately trained as the world aims to provide a quality education to all children in the next 15 years through the Sustainable Development Goals.