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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017 covers 75 countries. Albania is highest, at 33.580; Kazakhstan is lowest, at 0.267. The middle country reads 16.091. Against 2016, 66 values changed (28 up, 38 down), 9 countries joined, 16 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2017

HighestAlbania

33.580

LowestKazakhstan

0.267

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, 2017, 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 75 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe33.580
2UkraineUKREastern Europe30.739
3CyprusCYPWestern Asia28.340
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe25.482
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia25.411
6SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe24.385
7PortugalPRTSouthern Europe24.283
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe23.505
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe23.407
10PolandPOLEastern Europe23.258
11AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.257
12SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe22.536
13JamaicaJAMCaribbean22.391
14IsraelISRWestern Asia22.220
15LatviaLVANorthern Europe22.151
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe21.909
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe21.882
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe21.877
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.348
20Costa RicaCRICentral America21.264
21SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe20.708
22ItalyITASouthern Europe20.313
23FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.289
24United StatesUSANorthern America20.159
25BrazilBRASouth America20.042

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Albania33.580
  2. 2Ukraine30.739
  3. 3Cyprus28.340
  4. 4Moldova25.482
  5. 5South Korea25.411

Lowest

  1. 75Kazakhstan0.267
  2. 74Sierra Leone3.050
  3. 73Myanmar7.409
  4. 72Romania8.052
  5. 71Grenada8.523

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.091. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −16countries joined / left
  • 66values changed, of 66 in both
  • 28 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Egypt+ France+ Grenada+ Kazakhstan+ Luxembourg+ Myanmar+ Portugal+ Singapore− Barbados− Brunei− Djibouti− Ecuador− Guinea− Liberia− Monaco− Maldives− Mauritania− Malawi− Oman− Paraguay− Rwanda− Seychelles− Togo− Samoa

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 75 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) (2017). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2017

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017?

Albania, at 33.580, of the 75 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017 cover?

75.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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