Expenditures on Education - Expenditure per student in primary education as a share of GDP per capita

Topics Education Expenditures on Education

Brunei Darussalam is the top country by expenditure per student in primary education in the world. As of 2016, expenditure per student in primary education in Brunei Darussalam was 9.1 %. The top 5 countries also includes Bangladesh, and South Sudan.

Public expenditure per pupil as a % of GDP per capita. Primary is the total public expenditure per student in primary education as a percentage of GDP per capita. Public expenditure (current and capital) includes government spending on educational institutions (both public and private), education administration as well as subsidies for private entities (students/households and other privates entities).

Expenditure per student in primary education as a share of GDP per capita (%)

	1990	2000	2005	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Cabo Verde			19.5		15.6		14.4
Cambodia		5.7		4.8	4.9	5.2	5.4	5.3
Cameroon			6.7	6.6	5.9	6.0
Central African Republic				4.5
Chad			6.2	7.0	5.9	6.3
Chile		13.4	11.3	14.6	15.1	17.0	15.9	14.3	15.4
Colombia		12.1	15.5	15.7	15.0	15.2	17.0	17.5	17.8
Comoros					17.0		14.8	17.5
Costa Rica		15.5		24.3	23.0	24.6	24.6	25.1	26.8
Cuba		28.3	40.3	49.4
Cyprus		14.6	20.4	30.9	32.2		31.4	32.3
Czech Republic		10.6	11.5	14.9	15.4	15.7	15.5
Denmark		23.6	24.6	28.1	21.8	25.7	25.6
Dominica				15.1	14.9	13.6
Dominican Republic			6.9	7.2	7.0	8.9	13.8	14.4	14.3
Ecuador		2.8		10.4	11.1	10.5	11.6	10.3	8.9
El Salvador		8.3	7.9	9.6		10.1	10.8	11.5	11.8
Estonia			19.1	24.0	22.3	22.0	23.3	19.7
Congo, Dem. Rep.				3.3			8.0
Congo, Rep.			2.9	11.1
Cote d'Ivoire		13.1			12.2	13.1	13.0	12.8	13.8
Ethiopia				7.9	8.9	5.8
Gabon					4.4
Gambia, The			4.9	20.1	11.0	9.4	10.1
Ghana			17.8		23.4	14.0	8.5	7.9
Guinea				10.9	7.9	7.8	10.2	8.9
Guinea-Bissau				2.9
Kenya		21.3			10.6	9.7		10.2	10.5
Lesotho		24.7	23.3
Madagascar			11.2		6.6	6.6
Malawi		11.2		5.0	5.7		7.9	9.5	9.8
Mali				6.2	9.9	10.2	10.7	12.6
Mauritania			8.7	11.6	9.5	9.0	8.6
Mauritius			11.3	10.2	9.7	10.0	11.5	13.3	12.5
Mozambique						12.9	12.8
Namibia		19.9	13.6	17.7
Niger				21.5	21.0	17.5	19.8	28.7
Rwanda		11.1	8.6	7.9	6.6	7.6	6.8		5.7
Sao Tome and Principe						17.2	16.6	11.3
Senegal			16.8	21.5	19.4	19.3	19.9	20.0
Seychelles					8.7
Sierra Leone					6.9	6.9	5.5
South Africa		13.5	13.6	17.0	17.5	18.8		17.6
South Sudan					3.6					6.4
Sri Lanka				4.9	4.8	4.0	4.3	6.3	7.2
St. Kitts and Nevis									6.1
St. Lucia				15.7	17.1	16.0	16.8	15.6	16.0
St. Vincent and the Grenadines		21.7	15.8	15.9	17.7		17.5	18.3	17.2
Sweden		21.8	23.6	26.2	25.7	26.6	22.6	22.4
Switzerland		20.1	22.0	22.0	23.4	24.5	25.2	25.5
Syrian Arab Republic		12.5				18.3
Thailand		17.4		18.2	32.2	27.3	23.1
Timor-Leste					31.2	19.8	18.7	24.9
Trinidad and Tobago		10.4
Tunisia		14.0	18.7
Turkey						10.2	13.3
Ukraine					28.1	32.4	32.3	27.0
United Kingdom		12.9	17.1	24.6	24.9		23.2	22.5
United States		18.3	19.6	22.1	20.9	20.6	19.8	19.9
Uruguay		7.3	8.3
Vanuatu		13.3							13.2
Venezuela, RB									0.0
Vietnam				19.4	17.4	20.6	20.9
Malaysia		12.6		12.3	14.9	17.3	16.0	15.8	16.1
Maldives			15.6	17.0	16.4	17.2	18.1	16.7
Malta				23.2	19.8	26.2	28.4
Mexico		11.6	14.1	14.9	14.7	14.5	14.8	14.9
Moldova				41.4	41.3	38.9		43.5	41.5
Monaco		3.2		4.1	4.0
Mongolia				12.4	15.7
Morocco		17.3	19.4	17.8	17.9	18.8	19.4
Nepal		10.1		11.0	11.4	11.6	11.4	13.5	12.9
Netherlands		14.4	17.1	17.3	16.9	17.0	17.6	17.1
New Zealand		19.6	18.7	21.1	20.9	23.5	19.2	18.0	18.1
Nicaragua			7.6	11.1
Norway			18.5	20.8	19.6	19.3	20.0
Ireland		10.8	13.9	19.3	18.5	18.8	16.8
Israel		20.1	20.7	21.5	22.4	23.1	22.1	20.8
Italy		22.3	21.8	22.8	21.5	20.7	21.4	21.2
Jamaica			12.8	21.1	20.6	21.2	22.2	21.9	20.7
Japan		20.7	21.2	22.9	22.6	22.8	23.0	22.5
Jordan			15.2		13.4
Kiribati		25.3
Korea, Rep.			16.5			22.0	23.5	24.5	29.4
Kuwait			10.0		17.8			14.7
Lao PDR			9.7	5.4	4.6	6.3	10.7	10.4
Latvia		19.4		25.2	24.1	32.6	36.1	26.4
Liechtenstein				21.1	17.9
Lithuania			15.0	22.0	20.0	18.9	18.5
Luxembourg				24.7	25.1	21.2	19.6	19.8
Macao SAR, China		8.3
Oman			14.3		15.4
Pakistan	0.0						8.0	8.1	7.7
Panama		13.5			6.3
Paraguay		11.6		10.5	11.2	14.4
Peru		8.1	6.8	8.9	8.4	9.3	11.3	12.6	13.0
Philippines		12.1	8.4
Poland			23.5	26.8	25.7	25.1	26.0	26.8
Portugal		19.6	21.7	21.0	20.8	21.1	23.6	23.6
Puerto Rico							18.8
Romania			10.5	13.6	11.7	11.7
Samoa		7.2
San Marino				15.4	17.0
Serbia				54.2	51.0
Singapore				11.0
Slovak Republic		10.5	14.3	19.5	18.4	18.3	19.5	19.4
Slovenia				30.4	30.0	29.9	28.9
Spain		17.1	18.7	21.1	21.0	19.0	17.9	17.6
Andorra			7.7	17.1	17.6		14.8	13.2	14.0
Argentina		12.4	10.4	13.6	14.2	14.5	14.4	14.4
Armenia						11.1	11.3		11.4
Australia		16.8	17.9	22.4	20.1	18.2	18.8	18.4
Austria		22.5	22.7	25.0	24.7	22.0	23.5	23.4
Bahrain							10.8	10.5	11.2
Bangladesh					8.3					7.1
Barbados		14.0	19.0
Belgium			19.3	22.4	22.3		22.7	22.2
Belize		15.7	13.7	18.2		15.0	15.9	0.0
Benin		11.1	10.4	14.1		11.1	10.9	9.9	9.4
Bhutan			10.3	7.8	9.6		8.2	13.7	31.7
Bolivia		12.6		20.8	17.1	23.4	16.3	23.5
Botswana			17.9
Brazil		10.6	15.4	20.8	20.4	21.0	20.0
Brunei Darussalam				5.1						9.1
Bulgaria			22.3	21.0	18.4	18.3	22.4
Burkina Faso			33.3	18.1	17.0	16.4	18.2	20.4	15.6
Burundi		9.6	14.3		14.2	13.1	12.7
Swaziland		9.6	13.0	14.7	16.2			18.7
Tanzania			12.6					10.1
Togo		11.7	8.0	11.4	10.9	12.7	13.5	14.5	17.4
Uganda				4.3	7.1	6.0	5.3	5.7
Zambia		6.5	4.9
Zimbabwe						21.5	22.1
Afghanistan				9.4	9.8	6.9	9.0	9.5	8.2
Algeria		9.9
Yemen, Rep.					18.4
Fiji					15.9		12.6
Finland		16.3	17.2	20.1	20.2	0.0	20.8	21.2
France		17.4	17.5	18.1	17.9	18.5	18.0
Georgia					11.4	9.1
Germany				17.7	17.4	17.3	17.9	17.9
Guatemala		6.9	6.0	8.5	9.2	9.7	9.4	9.6	10.1
Guyana				8.1	7.8	7.8
Honduras				17.8			19.1
Hong Kong SAR, China			14.4	14.7	14.7	14.2	14.7	14.9	14.9
Hungary		18.9	25.2	22.0	19.2	18.8	22.2	14.7
Iceland		21.6	24.9	25.1	25.7	24.4	24.5
India		14.5		7.6	9.1	9.4	9.8
Indonesia				10.0		11.5	11.9	12.3	13.2
Iran, Islamic Rep.			10.5	12.5	13.0	10.7	8.0	8.2	8.0

Expenditure per student in primary education as a share of GDP per capita (%)

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