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Report year 2014Data year 2014
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 2014 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita) |
|---|---|---|
| Cyprus | CYP | 32.329 |
| Moldova | MDA | 29.679 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 27.498 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 27.477 |
| Latvia | LVA | 27.027 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 25.785 |
| Poland | POL | 25.772 |
| Malta | MLT | 25.703 |
| Denmark | DNK | 25.064 |
| Costa Rica | CRI | 24.302 |
| Iceland | ISL | 23.955 |
| Portugal | PRT | 23.818 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 23.442 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 23.317 |
| Austria | AUT | 22.803 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 22.395 |
| Belgium | BEL | 21.953 |
| Niger | NER | 21.934 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 21.932 |
| Sweden | SWE | 21.757 |
| Finland | FIN | 21.098 |
| Italy | ITA | 20.864 |
| Israel | ISR | 20.371 |
| Norway | NOR | 19.836 |
| Brazil | BRA | 19.194 |
| Estonia | EST | 19.124 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 18.751 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 18.738 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 18.714 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 18.611 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 18.186 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 17.482 |
| Spain | ESP | 17.308 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 17.013 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 16.616 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 16.234 |
| Aruba | ABW | 16.141 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 15.718 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 15.340 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 14.917 |
| Czechia | CZE | 14.886 |
| Ireland | IRL | 14.885 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 14.832 |
| Senegal | SEN | 14.645 |
| Argentina | ARG | 14.480 |
| Maldives | MDV | 14.431 |
| Hungary | HUN | 14.389 |
| Chile | CHL | 14.329 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 14.302 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 14.219 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | STP | 14.113 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 13.888 |
| Mexico | MEX | 13.625 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 13.063 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 12.832 |
| Belize | BLZ | 12.781 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 12.460 |
| Andorra | AND | 12.430 |
| Peru | PER | 12.250 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 12.188 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 12.140 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 11.805 |
| Nepal | NPL | 11.637 |
| Mali | MLI | 11.034 |
| Togo | TGO | 10.671 |
| Uruguay | URY | 10.545 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 10.259 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 9.913 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 9.750 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 9.667 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 9.590 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 9.516 |
| Kenya | KEN | 9.388 |
| Gambia | GMB | 9.208 |
| Laos | LAO | 9.190 |
| Comoros | COM | 9.142 |
| Romania | ROU | 9.011 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 8.775 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 8.413 |
| Iran | IRN | 7.603 |
| Benin | BEN | 7.539 |
| Panama | PAN | 7.461 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 7.134 |
| Malawi | MWI | 6.492 |
| Guinea | GIN | 6.253 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 6.087 |
| Ghana | GHA | 5.885 |
| Uganda | UGA | 4.731 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 4.066 |
| Monaco | MCO | 3.370 |
| Namibia | NAM | 3.276 |