2025年教育监测报告：基于对30个国家的调查

A 30-Country IpsosGlobal Advisor SurveyAugust 2025 CONTENTS 3 2 1 Education in mycountry:Perceptionsand expectations Challenges facingeducation andyoung people Headlines 4 5 6 Education,technology–andthe future My favouriteschool subjects Methodology PART ONE:Headlines At a glance Most popular school subjects 34% 1.History2.Maths3.Science on average across 30countries say the quality ofthe education system intheir country is good. Butviews are mixed: 35% sayit’s poor. think mental health challengesare one of the biggestchallenges facing young peopletoday, making it the #1 issue. Least popular school subjects 36% 30/30Inall 30 countries, a majoritysupportbanning social mediafor children under 14 bothinside and outside of school. 1.Maths2.Religion3.History think that pupil numbers inthe schools in their localarea will fall over the nextfive years, vs 25% whoexpect no change and 23%who expect a rise. Key findings You either love or hatehistory and maths A majority support banningsocial media for under 14s A closing gender gap onfavourite school subjects History (32%), maths (30%) andscience (26%) rank as the threemost popular school subjects,globally. But both history andmaths also appear in the top threeleast popular school subjects too(maths at #1, history at #3). Seven in 10 (71%) support banningchildren from using social mediaboth inside and outside of school,up 6pts from 2024. A majoritysupport this in all 30 countries,with support rising in all countriesexcept India, Hungary andThailand. Among Baby Boomers, there's aclear distinction between subjectswhich were popular with boys(science, maths) and popular withgirls (local language, literature). Butamong younger generations, this gaphas shrunk significantly-and almostdisappeared for science and maths. Many expect pupil numbersto fall over next five years Mental health seen as thebiggest issue for young people Each country’s educationsystem faces its ownchallenges On average across 30 countries,36% think pupil numbers in theschools in their local area will fallover the next five years. This ishigher in countries with very lowfertility rates. Eighty-one per centin South Korea and 68% in Japanexpect pupil numbers to fall. On average, a third of peopleglobally place mental health as thebiggest challenge facing youngpeople today, making it the #1 issue.This climbs to 54% in Sweden. Amajority (53%) say the mental healthof young people in their countrytoday is poor, with Gen Z the mostlikely to describe it as “very poor”. There is no uniform picture when itcomes to the challenges facingeducation across countries. Everyissue in our survey ranks as a top-three issue somewhere. Onaverage globally, an outdatedcurriculum comes top (29%). Young people and mental health growing existential threats of climatechange, unregulated and harmful socialmedia, declining social cohesion, andsocioeconomic precarity—as reflectedin insecure employment, reducedaccess to affordable housing, rapidlygrowing intergenerational inequality,and polarisation of political views—havecombined to create a bleak present andfuture for young people.” Youth Mental Healthfrom 2024reported: “There is now substantialevidence showing that youth mentalhealth has deteriorated since the early2010s, with rising anxiety, depression,psychological distress, self-harm, andsuicide. Fifty-three per cent on average across30 countries think the mental health ofchildren in their country is poor. Only37% say the same about children’sphysical health. When we asked people what are the topchallenges affecting young people,mental health comes out top, ahead ofissues like the country’s economy andsocial media.Parents are just as likelyas those without kids to think it’s themost important challenge facing youngpeople. “Since the Covid-19 pandemic, youngpeople have experienceddisproportionately poorer mentalhealth outcomes.” This “loss of the future” is somethingthat Ipsos has observed sincethe startof this century. While three in fourbelieve it is natural for each generationto have a higher standard of living thantheir parents, for many young peopletoday in much of the west this seemsunlikely. Like for many adults, the pandemic hada detrimental impact on the mentalhealth of children.Research in the UKfound over half of teens met the criteriaforpost-traumatic stress disorderrelated to Covid. According tothe WHO, one in seven 10–19-year-olds suffer from a mentaldisorder. Is mental health among young peoplegetting worse? In terms of what’s driving this decline inmental health,the Lancet cited: “The Continued overleaf. TheLancet Psychiatry Commission on Young people and mental health of parents with school-age children thinkmental healthchallenges is one of thebiggest issues affectingyoung people.31% Our research intopeople’s perceptionsof their mental healthhas already foundmany young adults are struggling. Fourin ten (40%) Gen Z (in our survey that isthose aged between 16