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Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999

Figures for 1999, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999 covers 56 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 33.54957; Monaco is lowest, at 3.30185. The middle country reads 12.38363.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 1999

HighestLesotho

33.54957

LowestMonaco

3.30185

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 56 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1LesothoLSOSouthern Africa33.54957
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia25.40383
3CubaCUBCaribbean25.00265
4AustriaAUTWestern Europe24.44865
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24.06125
6ItalyITASouthern Europe23.00227
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe21.37787
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe21.06401
9EstoniaESTNorthern Europe20.90894
10SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe20.44898
11IsraelISRWestern Asia20.39662
12Saint LuciaLCACaribbean20.38550
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe19.40643
14NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa18.69330
15PortugalPRTSouthern Europe18.68133
16SpainESPSouthern Europe17.70509
17HungaryHUNEastern Europe17.55462
18Costa RicaCRICentral America17.28628
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.82050
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia15.93164
21South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.90719
22JordanJORWestern Asia15.39114
23ColombiaCOLSouth America14.93979
24MoroccoMARNorthern Africa14.71325
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa14.47542

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lesotho33.54957
  2. 2Kiribati25.40383
  3. 3Cuba25.00265
  4. 4Austria24.44865
  5. 5Denmark24.06125

Lowest

  1. 56Monaco3.30185
  2. 55Ecuador3.83222
  3. 54Togo5.88957
  4. 53Mauritania6.88816
  5. 52Uruguay7.03273

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.38363. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 56 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

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

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06Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999?

Lesotho, at 33.54957, of the 56 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999 cover?

56.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022.

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