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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018

Figures for 2018, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018 covers 71 countries. Uzbekistan is highest, at 34.246; Kazakhstan is lowest, at 0.232. The middle country reads 16.705. Against 2017, 61 values changed (30 up, 31 down), 10 countries joined, 14 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2018

HighestUzbekistan

34.246

LowestKazakhstan

0.232

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, 2018, 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 71 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia34.246
2UkraineUKREastern Europe31.106
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia26.252
4MoldovaMDAEastern Europe24.858
5San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe24.648
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe24.476
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe23.940
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa23.895
9PortugalPRTSouthern Europe23.283
10PolandPOLEastern Europe23.151
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe22.786
12AustriaAUTWestern Europe22.739
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe22.715
14IsraelISRWestern Asia22.603
15OmanOMNWestern Asia22.375
16SwedenSWENorthern Europe22.371
17NorwayNORNorthern Europe21.965
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe21.893
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.209
20LatviaLVANorthern Europe21.064
21JamaicaJAMCaribbean20.787
22SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe20.577
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe20.484
24United StatesUSANorthern America20.395
25BulgariaBGREastern Europe20.263

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Uzbekistan34.246
  2. 2Ukraine31.106
  3. 3South Korea26.252
  4. 4Moldova24.858
  5. 5San Marino24.648

Lowest

  1. 71Kazakhstan0.232
  2. 70Rwanda4.279
  3. 69Chad5.044
  4. 68Turks and Caicos Islands5.775
  5. 67Sri Lanka6.406

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 16.705. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −14countries joined / left
  • 61values changed, of 61 in both
  • 30 · 31rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Ecuador+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Oman+ Rwanda+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad+ Uzbekistan− Afghanistan− Albania− Armenia− Cabo Verde− Cyprus− Egypt− Grenada− Iran− Mali− Malta− Mongolia− Niger− Panama− Zambia

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 71 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) (2018). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2018

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018?

Uzbekistan, at 34.246, of the 71 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018 cover?

71.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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