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Report year 2000Data year 2000
Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
24 editions (1999–2022), 56 to 99 countries. Initial government funding per primary-school student, expressed as a share of GDP per capita — the form that makes rich and poor countries comparable at all, since the same dollar buys very different amounts of schooling. ⚠ PRIMARY LEVEL ONLY, and named for it. UIS publishes this per level of education rather than as a single figure, so a page called simply “spending per student” would be describing a number that does not exist; the secondary and tertiary versions are separate series and are not imported here. ⚠ Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written — that drops UIS’s trailing stub year, which opens with a handful of early reporters, and any thin historical year. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Government Funding per Primary Student 2000 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita) |
|---|---|---|
| Cuba | CUB | 28.24299 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 26.94199 |
| Kiribati | KIR | 23.82989 |
| Denmark | DNK | 23.63445 |
| Austria | AUT | 22.60287 |
| Italy | ITA | 22.18411 |
| Sweden | SWE | 21.49804 |
| Iceland | ISL | 21.39776 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 21.09852 |
| Kenya | KEN | 20.85527 |
| Latvia | LVA | 19.83172 |
| Portugal | PRT | 19.61757 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 19.53313 |
| Israel | ISR | 19.52962 |
| Hungary | HUN | 18.91319 |
| Namibia | NAM | 18.80527 |
| Thailand | THA | 17.48665 |
| Spain | ESP | 17.19185 |
| Finland | FIN | 16.30524 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 15.50481 |
| Morocco | MAR | 15.36781 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 15.04503 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 14.92825 |
| India | IND | 14.84315 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 14.61396 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 14.27066 |
| Barbados | BRB | 13.98492 |
| Chile | CHL | 13.93223 |
| Panama | PAN | 13.84189 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 13.35857 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 13.27815 |
| Aruba | ABW | 13.02472 |
| Syria | SYR | 13.00148 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 12.58072 |
| Argentina | ARG | 12.41318 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 12.31409 |
| Philippines | PHL | 11.93866 |
| Belize | BLZ | 11.19762 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 10.84221 |
| Ireland | IRL | 10.78524 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 10.53776 |
| Brazil | BRA | 10.49972 |
| Czechia | CZE | 10.46941 |
| Nepal | NPL | 10.44832 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 10.36015 |
| Mexico | MEX | 10.26523 |
| Algeria | DZA | 9.85483 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 9.49886 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 9.49255 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 9.42403 |
| Burundi | BDI | 9.17563 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 9.08611 |
| Benin | BEN | 8.41007 |
| Peru | PER | 8.28501 |
| Malawi | MWI | 7.80799 |
| Samoa | WSM | 7.57914 |
| Togo | TGO | 7.57905 |
| Macau | MAC | 7.49063 |
| Uruguay | URY | 7.13850 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 6.93261 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 6.17591 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 5.72559 |
| Monaco | MCO | 3.19634 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 2.98868 |