Coursera’s Global Skills Report
Excerpt from the Executive Summary:
Here are some of our top findings:
- Digital skills are the shared language of the modern economy.
- Women’s participation continued to rise.
- The developing world had the highest rate of learner growth.
- Lower levels of internet access mean lower levels of skills proficiency.
- Courses in human skills had more learners from developed countries, while those in digital skills had more from developing ones.
- The U.S. held steady in its overall skills proficiency ranking—yet it lost meaningful ground in core technology and data science skills.
- Europe leads the world in skills proficiency.
- Proficiency in technology and data science skills varies widely across the Asia-Pacific region.
- Learners used Coursera to understand the pandemic.
