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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008

Figures for 2008, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008 covers 83 countries. Cuba is highest, at 46.415; Guinea is lowest, at 4.074. The middle country reads 14.390. Against 2007, 59 values changed (39 up, 20 down), 24 countries joined, 13 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2008

HighestCuba

46.415

LowestGuinea

4.074

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, 2008, 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 83 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CubaCUBCaribbean46.415
2LatviaLVANorthern Europe27.571
3MoldovaMDAEastern Europe27.031
4CyprusCYPWestern Asia25.866
5DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa25.274
6PolandPOLEastern Europe25.035
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe24.919
8EstoniaESTNorthern Europe24.903
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe24.767
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe23.994
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.310
12ItalyITASouthern Europe23.079
13BulgariaBGREastern Europe22.582
14LesothoLSOSouthern Africa21.619
15BarbadosBRBCaribbean21.533
16HungaryHUNEastern Europe21.387
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe20.705
18SpainESPSouthern Europe20.069
19IsraelISRWestern Asia19.446
20MaltaMLTSouthern Europe19.349
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia19.245
22PortugalPRTSouthern Europe18.949
23RomaniaROUEastern Europe18.376
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe18.214
25IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.096

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cuba46.415
  2. 2Latvia27.571
  3. 3Moldova27.031
  4. 4Cyprus25.866
  5. 5Djibouti25.274

Lowest

  1. 83Guinea4.074
  2. 82Cameroon4.719
  3. 81Togo6.333
  4. 80Dominican Republic6.804
  5. 79Bhutan6.937

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.390. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +24 / −13countries joined / left
  • 59values changed, of 59 in both
  • 39 · 20rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Benin+ Belize+ Barbados+ Bhutan+ Comoros+ Georgia+ Guinea+ Kuwait+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Maldives+ Mali+ Mauritania+ Mauritius+ Namibia+ Nepal+ Senegal+ Singapore+ Eswatini+ Thailand+ Tunisia+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu− Andorra− Burkina Faso− Botswana− Central African Republic− Guyana− Mongolia− Panama− Paraguay− Saudi Arabia− Serbia− Syria− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Venezuela

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 83 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.

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

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2008). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2008

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008?

Cuba, at 46.415, of the 83 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008 cover?

83.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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