Statista offers a search engine for market data, surveys, and statistics via corporate subscriptions.  But a certain amount of information is publicly available.  Here’s an example of a search on Education in China.  It yields a short overview of how education is structured in China, some interesting high-level stats on things like number of universities, number of enrolled students in public universities, etc.  You can see the high level numbers on the main search results page, but clicking into details (here’s the ‘number of universities’ detail page) runs you into the paywall.

https://www.statista.com/topics/2090/education-in-china/

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) also has data and data tools available, including for global education.  Here’s an example for Enrollment Rate.

https://data.oecd.org/education.htm

https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/use-the-data

U.S. Department of Education’s Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS – which has its own tools for data extraction around topics like enrollment, institutional characteristics, pricing,  outcomes measures, graduation rates, financial aid, etc)