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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015 covers 87 countries. Cyprus is highest, at 31.832; Liberia is lowest, at 4.024. The middle country reads 14.813. Against 2014, 72 values changed (36 up, 36 down), 15 countries joined, 19 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2015

HighestCyprus

31.832

LowestLiberia

4.024

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CyprusCYPWestern Asia31.832
2AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe29.629
3MoldovaMDAEastern Europe27.602
4LatviaLVANorthern Europe27.047
5Costa RicaCRICentral America25.768
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia24.995
7SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe24.745
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe24.738
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe24.062
10PolandPOLEastern Europe23.514
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.352
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe22.575
13PortugalPRTSouthern Europe22.562
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.970
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.792
16MaltaMLTSouthern Europe21.491
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe21.418
18ItalyITASouthern Europe21.410
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe21.183
20IsraelISRWestern Asia21.132
21JamaicaJAMCaribbean21.121
22SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe20.383
23BulgariaBGREastern Europe20.249
24BrazilBRASouth America19.781
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.761

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cyprus31.832
  2. 2Albania29.629
  3. 3Moldova27.602
  4. 4Latvia27.047
  5. 5Costa Rica25.768

Lowest

  1. 87Liberia4.024
  2. 86Saint Kitts and Nevis4.696
  3. 85Rwanda5.525
  4. 84Malawi6.696
  5. 83Sri Lanka6.974

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.813. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −19countries joined / left
  • 72values changed, of 72 in both
  • 36 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Armenia+ Dominica+ Greece+ India+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mauritania+ Netherlands+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ United States+ Vanuatu+ Zambia− Aruba− Bhutan− Comoros− Denmark− Ethiopia− Ghana− Guinea− Cambodia− Kuwait− Laos− Monaco− Namibia− Puerto Rico− São Tomé and Príncipe− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Tanzania− Uganda− Ukraine

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) (2015). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2015

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015?

Cyprus, at 31.832, of the 87 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015 cover?

87.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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