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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005

Figures for 2005, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005 covers 74 countries. Cuba is highest, at 40.2715; Republic of the Congo is lowest, at 2.8352. The middle country reads 13.0570. Against 2004, 58 values changed (34 up, 24 down), 16 countries joined, 16 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2005

HighestCuba

40.2715

LowestRepublic of the Congo

2.8352

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, 2005, 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 74 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CubaCUBCaribbean40.2715
2Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa30.7548
3HungaryHUNEastern Europe25.0638
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe24.7754
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe24.5498
6LesothoLSOSouthern Africa23.9975
7PolandPOLEastern Europe23.4721
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe23.4419
9AustriaAUTWestern Europe22.7665
10BulgariaBGREastern Europe22.0263
11ItalyITASouthern Europe21.7864
12PortugalPRTSouthern Europe21.6930
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe21.4141
14CyprusCYPWestern Asia20.6991
15IsraelISRWestern Asia20.0328
16Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa19.9773
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa19.1497
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe19.0004
19BarbadosBRBCaribbean18.9998
20SpainESPSouthern Europe18.7495
21GhanaGHAWestern Africa18.6321
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.4205
23BotswanaBWASouthern Africa17.6313
24MoroccoMARNorthern Africa17.5109
25JordanJORWestern Asia17.2009

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cuba40.2715
  2. 2Burkina Faso30.7548
  3. 3Hungary25.0638
  4. 4Iceland24.7754
  5. 5Denmark24.5498

Lowest

  1. 74Republic of the Congo2.8352
  2. 73Gambia3.4513
  3. 72Zambia4.7239
  4. 71Chad4.8767
  5. 70Cameroon5.3412

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.0570. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −16countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 58 in both
  • 34 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Kuwait13.8847 → 9.9947−3.8900
  • Zambia7.9228 → 4.7239−3.1988
  • Ghana20.7119 → 18.6321−2.0798
  • Italy23.5508 → 21.7864−1.7645
  • Mauritius12.2476 → 10.8020−1.4456
+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Cameroon+ Republic of the Congo+ Cabo Verde+ Laos+ Lesotho+ Madagascar+ Mauritania+ Namibia+ Oman+ Rwanda+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Costa Rica− Eritrea− Fiji− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Liechtenstein− Latvia− Monaco− Malta− Mongolia− Malaysia− Panama− Paraguay− Thailand− Tonga− Uganda

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 74 countries has every column.

05The 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.

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Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2005). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2005

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005?

Cuba, at 40.2715, of the 74 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005 cover?

74.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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