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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016 covers 82 countries. Cyprus is highest, at 31.003; Monaco is lowest, at 3.245. The middle country reads 15.399. Against 2015, 70 values changed (36 up, 34 down), 12 countries joined, 17 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2016

HighestCyprus

31.003

LowestMonaco

3.245

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, 2016, 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 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CyprusCYPWestern Asia31.003
2DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa28.231
3OmanOMNWestern Asia27.339
4UkraineUKREastern Europe26.609
5MoldovaMDAEastern Europe25.895
6South KoreaKOREastern Asia24.928
7LatviaLVANorthern Europe24.872
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe24.150
9Costa RicaCRICentral America23.996
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe23.898
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe23.718
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.518
13PolandPOLEastern Europe22.917
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe22.150
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe22.021
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe21.727
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.672
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe21.656
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe21.544
20IsraelISRWestern Asia21.359
21JamaicaJAMCaribbean20.664
22SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe20.595
23BrazilBRASouth America20.436
24BulgariaBGREastern Europe20.166
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe20.080

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cyprus31.003
  2. 2Djibouti28.231
  3. 3Oman27.339
  4. 4Ukraine26.609
  5. 5Moldova25.895

Lowest

  1. 82Monaco3.245
  2. 81Sierra Leone3.362
  3. 80Rwanda5.435
  4. 79Malawi5.755
  5. 78Guinea7.007

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.399. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −17countries joined / left
  • 70values changed, of 70 in both
  • 36 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Barbados+ Brunei+ Djibouti+ Denmark+ Guinea+ Jordan+ Monaco+ Oman+ Paraguay+ Sierra Leone+ Ukraine+ Samoa− Albania− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bahrain− Bermuda− Dominica− Gambia− Indonesia− Kenya− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Luxembourg− Nepal− Pakistan− Portugal− Senegal− Turks and Caicos Islands− Vanuatu

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 82 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) (2016). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2016

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016?

Cyprus, at 31.003, of the 82 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016 cover?

82.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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