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Government Funding per Primary Student

24 years, 1999–2022 · 68 countries

Government funding per primary student is what a government spends on each primary-school pupil, expressed as a share of GDP per person. That form makes rich and poor countries comparable, since the same dollar buys very different amounts of schooling.

This site holds every year from 1999 to 2022, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · the file

Newest
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022
Held
24 years · 1,850 rows
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

0124 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1999bar height: countries covered, up to 992022
Every year of Government Funding per Primary Student held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022Newest68+6 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 202173+8 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 202073+8 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201978+16 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201871+10 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201775+9 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201682+12 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201587+15 −19September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201491+8 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201397+17 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201290+12 −21September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201199+21 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Show all 24 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Government Funding per Primary Student, 201093+22 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200987+21 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200883+24 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200772+20 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200665+12 −21September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200574+16 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200474+25 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200362+12 −23September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200273+19 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200163+11 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 200064+16 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 199956—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: education-spending-per-student-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Government Funding per Primary Student: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2022DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—680
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—680
Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita)funding_per_primary_studentHeadlineThe headline figure: Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita).Number · up to 15 decimals3.77Monaco34.57South Koreamiddle 17.81680

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03171 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Government Funding per Primary Student, by continent.
201120122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Africa282625231816978775
Americas171719192119171718202120
Asia222022191716161415141210
Europe312729292929323234303230
Oceania102122113213
All999097918782757178737368

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2022
    + Andorra+ Australia+ Greece+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Oman− United Arab Emirates− United Kingdom− Croatia− India− Ireland− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− Ukraine− United States− Uzbekistan
  • 2021
    + Egypt+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Monaco+ Malta+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands− Dominica− Guinea− Iran− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Malaysia− Oman− Vanuatu
  • 2020
    + Armenia+ Guinea+ Croatia+ Oman+ Panama+ Paraguay+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Andorra− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Greece− Jamaica− Jordan− Kazakhstan− Sri Lanka− Monaco− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Malta
  • 2019
    + Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Azerbaijan+ Barbados+ Cabo Verde+ Cayman Islands+ Cyprus+ Dominica+ Egypt+ Iran+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Malta+ Mauritania+ Senegal+ Vanuatu− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Lesotho− Myanmar− Oman− Rwanda− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Uzbekistan− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • 2018
    + Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Ecuador+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Oman+ Rwanda+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad+ Uzbekistan− Afghanistan− Albania− Armenia− Cabo Verde− Cyprus− Egypt− Grenada− Iran− Mali− Malta− Mongolia− Niger− Panama− Zambia
  • 2017
    + Albania+ Egypt+ France+ Grenada+ Kazakhstan+ Luxembourg+ Myanmar+ Portugal+ Singapore− Barbados− Brunei− Djibouti− Ecuador− Guinea− Liberia− Monaco− Maldives− Mauritania− Malawi− Oman− Paraguay− Rwanda− Seychelles− Togo− Samoa
  • 2016
    + Barbados+ Brunei+ Djibouti+ Denmark+ Guinea+ Jordan+ Monaco+ Oman+ Paraguay+ Sierra Leone+ Ukraine+ Samoa− Albania− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bahrain− Bermuda− Dominica− Gambia− Indonesia− Kenya− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Luxembourg− Nepal− Pakistan− Portugal− Senegal− Turks and Caicos Islands− Vanuatu
  • 2015
    + Albania+ Armenia+ Dominica+ Greece+ India+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mauritania+ Netherlands+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ United States+ Vanuatu+ Zambia− Aruba− Bhutan− Comoros− Denmark− Ethiopia− Ghana− Guinea− Cambodia− Kuwait− Laos− Monaco− Namibia− Puerto Rico− São Tomé and Príncipe− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Tanzania− Uganda− Ukraine

Not in this dataset · 54 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaAngolaAnguillaBahamasBelarusBoliviaBritish Virgin IslandsCanadaChannel IslandsChinaCook IslandsEquatorial GuineaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGermanyGibraltarGreenlandGuamHaitiIraqIsle of ManJapanKosovoKyrgyzstanLebanonLibyaMicronesiaMontenegroMontserratNew CaledoniaNigeriaNiueNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsPalauPalestinePapua New GuineaRussiaSaint MartinSint MaartenSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSudanSurinameTaiwanTajikistanTurkmenistanTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityZimbabwe

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

    databrowser.uis.unesco.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Government Funding per Primary Student 2022

    indicators

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    24 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as education-spending-per-student-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/education-spending-per-student

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API, initial government funding per primary student. Years reporting fewer than 50 countries are left out.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed
  • Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Government Funding per Primary Student, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student: questions and answers

What is the Government Funding per Primary Student?

Government funding per primary student is what a government spends on each primary-school pupil, expressed as a share of GDP per person. That form makes rich and poor countries comparable, since the same dollar buys very different amounts of schooling.

Which years of the Government Funding per Primary Student can I download?

All 24, from 1999 to 2022, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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