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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021

Figures for 2021, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021 covers 73 countries. Cyprus is highest, at 28.19; Monaco is lowest, at 4.56. The middle country reads 18.51. Against 2020, 65 values changed (19 up, 46 down), 8 countries joined, 8 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2021

HighestCyprus

28.19

LowestMonaco

4.56

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CyprusCYPWestern Asia28.19
2South KoreaKOREastern Asia27.47
3UkraineUKREastern Europe27.36
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe26.86
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean25.92
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe25.68
7PolandPOLEastern Europe25.47
8SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe25.24
9ItalyITASouthern Europe25.23
10PortugalPRTSouthern Europe25.20
11SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe25.00
12BulgariaBGREastern Europe24.42
13SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe23.95
14IsraelISRWestern Asia23.72
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.61
16BarbadosBRBCaribbean23.11
17BelizeBLZCentral America22.81
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe22.28
19United StatesUSANorthern America22.16
20San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe21.89
21BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.74
22Costa RicaCRICentral America21.18
23DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe21.16
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe21.07
25South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa21.06

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cyprus28.19
  2. 2South Korea27.47
  3. 3Ukraine27.36
  4. 4Iceland26.86
  5. 5Jamaica25.92

Lowest

  1. 73Monaco4.56
  2. 72Egypt6.00
  3. 71Saint Kitts and Nevis6.74
  4. 70Turks and Caicos Islands6.82
  5. 69Trinidad and Tobago8.13

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 18.51. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −8countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 19 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Egypt+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Monaco+ Malta+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands− Dominica− Guinea− Iran− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Malaysia− Oman− 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 73 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) (2021). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2021

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021?

Cyprus, at 28.19, of the 73 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021 cover?

73.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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