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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020

Figures for 2020, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020 covers 73 countries. Cyprus is highest, at 30.006; Vanuatu is lowest, at 2.671. The middle country reads 18.678. Against 2019, 65 values changed (51 up, 14 down), 8 countries joined, 13 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2020

HighestCyprus

30.006

LowestVanuatu

2.671

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, 2020, 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 73 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CyprusCYPWestern Asia30.006
2PolandPOLEastern Europe28.771
3UkraineUKREastern Europe28.770
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe27.639
5South KoreaKOREastern Asia27.518
6OmanOMNWestern Asia26.526
7SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe25.942
8ItalyITASouthern Europe25.887
9San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe25.704
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe25.113
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe24.963
12IsraelISRWestern Asia24.762
13Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean24.531
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe23.999
15SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe23.885
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.879
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe23.699
18MoldovaMDAEastern Europe23.645
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe23.393
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe23.272
21BulgariaBGREastern Europe23.093
22Costa RicaCRICentral America22.986
23DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe22.474
24BelgiumBELWestern Europe22.447
25CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe21.789

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cyprus30.006
  2. 2Poland28.771
  3. 3Ukraine28.770
  4. 4Iceland27.639
  5. 5South Korea27.518

Lowest

  1. 73Vanuatu2.671
  2. 72Mauritania5.791
  3. 71Guinea6.341
  4. 70Romania9.475
  5. 69Sierra Leone9.622

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 18.678. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −13countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 51 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Guinea+ Croatia+ Oman+ Panama+ Paraguay+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Andorra− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Greece− Jamaica− Jordan− Kazakhstan− Sri Lanka− Monaco− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Malta

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 73 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) (2020). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2020

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020?

Cyprus, at 30.006, of the 73 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020 cover?

73.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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