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WORLD STATISTICS

Education

Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)

percent of GDP. Produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
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Indicator code
SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS
Unit
percent of GDP
Frequency
annual
Default classification
Latest available
Original producer
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Distributed by
World Bank — World Development Indicators
License
CC BY 4.0
Source record
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS

World trend

1999 – 2023

Highest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 1Kiribati16%2023
  2. 2Tuvalu13%2023
  3. 3Micronesia, Fed. Sts.12%2020
  4. 4Namibia9.08%2024
  5. 5Algeria8.98%2024
  6. 6Cuba8.44%2022
  7. 7Solomon Islands8.29%2023
  8. 8Botswana8.06%2020
  9. 9Marshall Islands7.70%2022
  10. 10Vanuatu7.64%2024

Lowest

Most recent year per country (within 5 years of the latest).

  1. 184Somalia, Fed. Rep.0.00%2023
  2. 183Nigeria0.32%2023
  3. 182Zimbabwe0.38%2023
  4. 181Papua New Guinea0.78%2023
  5. 180Haiti0.96%2023
  6. 179Lebanon1.22%2024
  7. 178Lao PDR1.23%2023
  8. 177Indonesia1.28%2023
  9. 176Cayman Islands1.57%2023
  10. 175Guinea1.72%2023

Revision history

Changes to previously published values detected during imports.

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