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The International Baccalaureate® (IB) is a non-profit educational foundation, motivated by its mission, focused on the student.
Our three programmes for students aged 3 to 19 help develop the intellectual, personal, emotional and social skills to live, learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.
Founded in 1968, we currently work with 3,035 schools in 139 countries to develop and offer three challenging programmes to over 854,000 students aged 3 to 19 years.
What makes the IB unique
- We offer a continuum of education, consisting of three programmes for students aged 3 to 19.
- We are proud of our reputation for high quality education sustained for over 35 years.
- We encourage international-mindedness in IB students. To do this, we believe that students must first develop an understanding of their own cultural and national identity.
- We encourage a positive attitude to learning by encouraging students to ask challenging questions, to critically reflect, to develop research skills, to learn how to learn and to participate in community service.
- We ensure that our programmes are accessible to students in a wide variety of schools—national, international, public and private—through our unique relationship with IB World Schools worldwide.
IB World Schools statistics
Schools by IB region
| Africa/ Europe/ Middle East | Asia-Pacific | Latin America | North America & the Caribbean | Total schools |
| PYP only |
33 |
83 |
21 |
252 |
389 |
| MYP only |
11 |
33 |
4 |
345 |
393 |
| DP only |
606 |
214 |
202 |
728 |
1,750 |
| All three |
58 |
49 |
26 |
18 |
151 |
| PYP+MYP |
20 |
14 |
13 |
25 |
72 |
| PYP+DP |
34 |
37 |
17 |
7 |
95 |
| MYP+DP |
42 |
19 |
11 |
121 |
193 |
| Total schools |
804 |
449 |
294 |
1496 |
3,043 |
| Number of programmes by region |
| Total PYP |
145 |
183 |
77 |
302 |
707 |
| Total MYP |
131 |
115 |
54 |
509 |
809 |
| Total DP |
740 |
319 |
256 |
874 |
2,189 |
| Total programmes |
1,016 |
617 |
387 |
1,685 |
3,705 |
Top ten largest IB countries (List all countries >)
Growth
One-year growth by programme
| Programme | Dec 2008 | Dec 2009 | Increase |
| PYP |
479 |
608 |
26.93% |
| MYP |
677 |
746 |
10.19% |
| DIPLOMA |
1,818 |
2,038 |
12.10% |
| Total schools |
2,974 |
3,392 |
14.06% |
Five-year growth by programme
| Programme | Dec 2004 | Dec 2009 | Increase | CAGR |
| PYP |
191 |
608 |
218.32% |
26.06% |
| MYP |
415 |
746 |
79.76% |
12.44% |
| DIPLOMA |
1,221 |
2,038 |
66.91% |
10.79% |
| Total schools |
1,827 |
3,392 |
85.66% |
13.17% |
CAGR is Compound Annual Growth Rate
Information source: IBO website. Please visit www.ibo.org to find out more.
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