Marshall Islands
East Asia & Pacific · Upper middle income· 38K inhabitants
Last updated: November 11, 2025
Fragile/Conflict-Affected Country: This country is classified as experiencing institutional and social fragility. Data may not reflect the current situation due to instability.
Note: This country is classified as a microstate (population under 300,000) and is indexed but not included in GEFRI global or regional rankings. Microstates are excluded from rankings because their unique population size, geographic scale, and special conditions can result in atypical data patterns that may not be directly comparable with larger countries. This helps ensure that rankings are more meaningful and fair for all measured countries.
Futures readiness profile
Key insights: Marshall Islands
Marshall Islands lags behind global peers in School Access and Gender Parity (27, 33rd percentile). The remaining dimensions are closer to the global average, but none demonstrate global leadership or advanced futures readiness. Broad-based, high-impact interventions are needed to drive overall education futures readiness and resilience.
Composite GEFRI Score
45.83
38th percentile
Higher scores indicate greater education futures readiness
Component scores
School Access and Gender Parity26.58
Below global avg. · 33rd %-tile
Governance57.72
Above global avg. · 71st %-tile
Captures the effectiveness and quality of policies, regulations, and governance that shape the educational environment.
Innovation40.04
Near the global average · 45th %-tile
Reflects a country’s capacity to foster, produce, and apply new knowledge and technology in society and education.
Human Capital53.90
Above global avg. · 61st %-tile
Assesses the educational attainment and capacity of a country’s population, focusing on access and completion at secondary and tertiary levels as well as literacy.
Infrastructure50.91
Near the global average · 30th %-tile
Measures the availability and quality of basic digital and electrical infrastructure that supports education.
Regional peers: East Asia & Pacific
| Global rank | Regional rank | Country | Score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 | Korea, Rep. | 80.27 |
| 4 | 2 | Singapore | 79.39 |
| 5 | 3 | Hong Kong SAR, China | 79.21 |
| 7 | 4 | Japan | 78.26 |
| 9 | 5 | Australia | 77.71 |
| 17 | 6 | New Zealand | 74.85 |
| — | — | Northern Mariana Islands(microstate) | 71.25 |
| — | — | New Caledonia(microstate) | 70.50 |
| — | — | Guam(microstate) | 69.62 |
| — | — | American Samoa(microstate) | 69.08 |
| — | — | French Polynesia(microstate) | 68.68 |
| 44 | 7 | China | 63.63 |
| 49 | 8 | Brunei Darussalam | 61.74 |
| 50 | 9 | Thailand | 61.59 |
| 54 | 10 | Indonesia | 60.52 |
| — | — | Palau(microstate) | 59.99 |
| — | — | Nauru(microstate) | 59.98 |
| 61 | 11 | Macao SAR, China | 59.29 |
| 64 | 12 | Viet Nam | 58.46 |
| 72 | 13 | Malaysia | 56.52 |
| 73 | 14 | Mongolia | 56.49 |
| 74 | 15 | Fiji | 56.38 |
| — | — | Tuvalu(microstate) | 56.33 |
| — | — | Kiribati(microstate) | 53.22 |
| 86 | 16 | Philippines | 52.65 |
| — | — | Samoa(microstate) | 50.71 |
| — | — | Tonga(microstate) | 48.79 |
| 105 | 17 | Timor-Leste | 47.65 |
| — | — | Marshall Islands(microstate) | 45.83 |
| 115 | 18 | Korea, Dem. People's Rep. | 43.16 |
| — | — | Micronesia, Fed. Sts.(microstate) | 42.86 |
| 118 | 19 | Vanuatu | 40.73 |
| 128 | 20 | Cambodia | 35.01 |
| 129 | 21 | Myanmar | 34.36 |
| 134 | 22 | Solomon Islands | 32.62 |
| 139 | 23 | Lao PDR | 30.68 |
| 147 | 24 | Papua New Guinea | 27.30 |