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Education Statistics > Education spending (% of GDP) (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1     Cuba: 18.7% 
# 2     Vanuatu: 11% 
# 3     Lesotho: 10.4% 
# 4     Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: 10% 
# 5     Yemen: 9.5% 
# 6     Brunei: 9.1% 
# 7     Mongolia: 9% 
# 8     Denmark: 8.5% 
# 9     Guyana: 8.4% 
# 10     Malaysia: 8.1% 
# 11     Cape Verde: 7.9% 
= 12     Saint Lucia: 7.7% 
= 12     Sweden: 7.7% 
= 14     Saint Kitts and Nevis: 7.6% 
= 14     Norway: 7.6% 
= 14     Barbados: 7.6% 
# 17     Israel: 7.5% 
# 18     Namibia: 7.2% 
# 19     Swaziland: 7.1% 
# 20     Kenya: 7% 
# 21     New Zealand: 6.7% 
# 22     Morocco: 6.5% 
= 23     Finland: 6.4% 
= 23     Tunisia: 6.4% 
= 25     Cyprus: 6.3% 
= 25     Bolivia: 6.3% 
= 25     Belgium: 6.3% 
= 28     Slovenia: 6.1% 
= 28     Jamaica: 6.1% 
= 30     Belarus: 6% 
= 30     Malawi: 6% 
= 30     Iceland: 6% 
# 33     Lithuania: 5.9% 
= 34     Switzerland: 5.8% 
= 34     Latvia: 5.8% 
= 34     Portugal: 5.8% 
= 37     Austria: 5.7% 
= 37     United States: 5.7% 
= 37     Estonia: 5.7% 
= 40     Fiji: 5.6% 
= 40     France: 5.6% 
= 40     Poland: 5.6% 
= 43     Hungary: 5.5% 
= 43     Ireland: 5.5% 
# 45     Ukraine: 5.4% 
= 46     South Africa: 5.3% 
= 46     United Kingdom: 5.3% 
= 46     Mexico: 5.3% 
= 49     Thailand: 5.2% 
= 49     Canada: 5.2% 
= 49     Bhutan: 5.2% 
= 49     Colombia: 5.2% 
= 49     Seychelles: 5.2% 
= 49     Belize: 5.2% 
= 55     Netherlands: 5.1% 
= 55     Grenada: 5.1% 
= 55     Costa Rica: 5.1% 
= 58     Moldova: 4.9% 
= 58     Iran: 4.9% 
= 58     Australia: 4.9% 
= 58     Tonga: 4.9% 
# 62     Samoa: 4.8% 
= 63     Mauritius: 4.7% 
= 63     Italy: 4.7% 
= 63     Zimbabwe: 4.7% 
= 66     Ethiopia: 4.6% 
= 66     Côte d'Ivoire: 4.6% 
= 66     Germany: 4.6% 
= 66     Oman: 4.6% 
= 70     Croatia: 4.5% 
= 70     Spain: 4.5% 
= 70     Panama: 4.5% 
= 73     Czech Republic: 4.4% 
= 73     Paraguay: 4.4% 
= 73     Hong Kong: 4.4% 
= 73     Slovakia: 4.4% 
# 77     Trinidad and Tobago: 4.3% 
= 78     Brazil: 4.2% 
= 78     Chile: 4.2% 
= 78     Korea, South: 4.2% 
= 81     Eritrea: 4.1% 
= 81     India: 4.1% 
= 83     Argentina: 4% 
= 83     Greece: 4% 
= 85     Gabon: 3.9% 
= 85     Burundi: 3.9% 
= 85     Comoros: 3.9% 
= 88     Antigua and Barbuda: 3.8% 
= 88     Russia: 3.8% 
= 88     Cameroon: 3.8% 
= 91     Sierra Leone: 3.7% 
= 91     Turkey: 3.7% 
= 93     Japan: 3.6% 
= 93     Senegal: 3.6% 
= 95     Bulgaria: 3.5% 
= 95     Macedonia, Republic of: 3.5% 
= 95     Romania: 3.5% 
= 98     Nepal: 3.4% 
= 98     Solomon Islands: 3.4% 
# 100     Benin: 3.3% 
= 101     Azerbaijan: 3.2% 
= 101     Armenia: 3.2% 
= 101     Congo, Republic of the: 3.2% 
= 104     Philippines: 3.1% 
= 104     Nicaragua: 3.1% 
= 104     Kyrgyzstan: 3.1% 
= 107     Peru: 3% 
= 107     Kazakhstan: 3% 
= 109     Madagascar: 2.9% 
= 109     El Salvador: 2.9% 
= 111     Gambia, The: 2.8% 
= 111     Tajikistan: 2.8% 
= 111     Laos: 2.8% 
= 111     Rwanda: 2.8% 
= 111     Angola: 2.8% 
# 116     Lebanon: 2.7% 
= 117     Togo: 2.6% 
= 117     Uruguay: 2.6% 
# 119     Bangladesh: 2.4% 
= 120     Dominican Republic: 2.3% 
= 120     Papua New Guinea: 2.3% 
= 120     Niger: 2.3% 
= 123     Georgia: 2.2% 
= 123     Botswana: 2.2% 
# 125     Zambia: 2% 
= 126     Pakistan: 1.8% 
= 126     Guinea: 1.8% 
= 126     Cambodia: 1.8% 
# 129     United Arab Emirates: 1.6% 
# 130     Indonesia: 1.2% 
# 131     Ecuador: 1% 
# 132     Equatorial Guinea: 0.6% 
Weighted average: 4.9%  



DEFINITION: Government Education Expenditure (% of GDP, 2000-2002)

SOURCE: United Nations Human Development Programme

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Allen
30th January 2012 		Education spend per % of GDP is not a good indicator of anything other than just that. the USA spends more per student in actual dollars than any of the developed countries and yet we finish 10th in Math Scores and 9th in Science scores. Those countries that out-perform us for the most part spend less of a % of GDP. Example Japan, Australia, France and South Korea, UK, Canada.
Eliot
23rd November 2011 		This show how much gov'ts spend of the available income on education, and not how much per student. Cuba while high may spend less per student then an oil rich county and still rank high. It does show which gov'ts value education more. In asian countries the strong community and family structure gives them the edge that no amount of money can equal.
Education as a factor of the GDP ONLY tells one of how highly education is valued by the political elite.
OCCUPY the WORLD
güzin S.
27th July 2011 		I'm doing a Master's thesis on the education expenditure , could you supply the data of Turkey? Education spending (% of GDP) or statistic of expenditure would be OK.
Ivan Roman
30th June 2011 		This information appears to come from the CIA World Fact Book which includes data from different years, some up to ten (10) years old. Several progressive Latin American governments have dramatically increased their educational budgets during the last decade therefore comparisons are inaccurate and not dependable. The year of each country's information should be included for this information to have "some" use. Thanks.
Joe R.
30th April 2011 		Do Americans need a clearer outline? Japan/Hong Kong/South Korea (the latter being friendly towards a lot of socialist "human capital" answers) spend a SMALLER share of their GDP to education, and come out w/ better results.

This data shows it's not the amount of $ going in, it's the quality of people that are put into the system. Countries w/ the best educational systems are the ones where their teachers command, and earn, the respect of parents and students.
Anna Sajna Mathew
4th March 2011 		No information about China Has been given....tat wat i wanted...anyways thanks 4 these informations..
vinod thakur
26th February 2011 		I am doing research in the field of education in india. i need GDP expenditure of the country immediately since the first planning commission . please held me by providing the abover data
Dr.S.B.Hagaragi, K.L.E. Society's B.K.
25th February 2011 		The data on this page very useful to all those intertested in education but it needs to be updated atleast once in a yer. The data apprears to be for the year 2000- 2002. I earnestly request the concerned to update the same with latest data.
arda
18th February 2011 		Another question arises: On how many students is this money spent?

Consider 2 countries from the above list with same percentage and same population and say, they spent $10billion on education. It could be the case that one country spends this money for 10million students and the other for 15million students. In this sense this list doesn't make much sense.
prasanna
11th January 2011 		for most countries private expenditure on education is not available. however u can find some estimates of aggregated figures in global education (stat) report of UNESCO.
paelina
8th December 2010 		So this just includes government spending? Where might one find information on combined public and private spending (like we see in health care statistics)?
Grant Mathews
17th September 2010 		Cambodia sits around 1.6 percent based on last research effort from UNESCO.
Dipika
11th July 2010 		Rob Levitt stated that China participated in the international study...Just to clarify, it was Chinese Taipei (aka Taiwan) that participated in the study and outranked the U.S.
Bob
28th April 2010 		I am doing a project on Costa Rica and I need the GDP, I found it here thanks!
Rob Leavitt
22nd March 2010 		According to a 2008 Reuters article, China spends 2.5% GDP.

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE4B94K420081212?virtualBrandChannel=10341&sp=true

They out-scored the U.S. (598 vs. 508) in the last international study too.

http://nces.ed.gov/timss/table07_1.asp
Gordana
9th January 2010 		How about Serbia?
Robert Ewels
10th December 2009 		Do these figures include spending on infrastructure for the Education sector. There is currently a major build programme in the UK callled Building Schools for the future. I would like to know whether the UK figure includes this spending.
Pepito
27th November 2009 		Where is China
Villa
2nd November 2009 		No China ???

I'm doing a homework on the education expenditure , could you supply the data of China?
Education spending (% of GDP) or statistic of expenditure would be OK.
Edria Murray
Staff Editor
31st January 2005 		This statistic states the total government spending across all areas of education. In most countries spending is not evenly distributed to all levels of education. To compare spending in different educational levels see also spending per student at primary, secondary and tertiary level.">Educational spending is one indicator of the level of resourcing in schools. Comparing educational spending with GDP can be an indicator of the importance of education according to government policy makers. However this indicator can be misleading if the GDP is significantly higher or lower than average.



To compare priorities for government spending, comparison should be made with spending in other areas such as military, health and social security.



To gain a better overview of educational resourcing, other resourcing indicators such as goverment spending per student and pupil teacher ratio should also be consulted.



This statistic states the total government spending across all areas of education. In most countries spending is not evenly distributed to all levels of education. To compare spending in different educational levels see also spending per student at primary, secondary and tertiary level.
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