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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009

Figures for 2009, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009 covers 87 countries. Serbia is highest, at 52.70; Monaco is lowest, at 3.59. The middle country reads 15.01. Against 2008, 66 values changed (52 up, 14 down), 21 countries joined, 17 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2009

HighestSerbia

52.70

LowestMonaco

3.59

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, 2009, 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 87 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe52.70
2CubaCUBCaribbean43.47
3MoldovaMDAEastern Europe33.52
4LatviaLVANorthern Europe29.67
5CyprusCYPWestern Asia28.88
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe27.83
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe26.49
8EstoniaESTNorthern Europe25.85
9PolandPOLEastern Europe25.69
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe25.28
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.01
12ItalyITASouthern Europe23.96
13ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia22.60
14BulgariaBGREastern Europe22.48
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe22.05
16NigerNERWestern Africa21.70
17HungaryHUNEastern Europe21.53
18SpainESPSouthern Europe21.40
19PortugalPRTSouthern Europe21.36
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe21.33
21Costa RicaCRICentral America20.98
22NorwayNORNorthern Europe20.85
23IrelandIRLNorthern Europe20.01
24MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia19.54
25BrazilBRASouth America19.47

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Serbia52.70
  2. 2Cuba43.47
  3. 3Moldova33.52
  4. 4Latvia29.67
  5. 5Cyprus28.88

Lowest

  1. 87Monaco3.59
  2. 86Guyana3.94
  3. 85Cambodia4.22
  4. 84Laos4.43
  5. 83Central African Republic4.53

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.01. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −17countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 52 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Botswana+ Central African Republic+ Ecuador+ Ethiopia+ Guyana+ India+ Cambodia+ Laos+ Saint Lucia+ Sri Lanka+ Monaco+ Mongolia+ Oman+ Qatar+ Serbia+ Syria+ Chad+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Venezuela− Barbados− Comoros− Djibouti− Georgia− Guatemala− Jordan− Kuwait− Liechtenstein− Lesotho− Luxembourg− Mauritania− Namibia− Philippines− Rwanda− El Salvador− Eswatini− Tunisia

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 87 countries has every column.

05The files

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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) (2009). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2009

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009?

Serbia, at 52.70, of the 87 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009 cover?

87.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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