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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022

Figures for 2022, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022 covers 68 countries. South Korea is highest, at 34.57; Monaco is lowest, at 3.77. The middle country reads 17.81. Against 2021, 62 values changed (19 up, 43 down), 6 countries joined, 11 left.

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Government Funding per Primary Student · Data for 2022

HighestSouth Korea

34.57

LowestMonaco

3.77

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, 2022, 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 68 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1South KoreaKOREastern Asia34.57
2CyprusCYPWestern Asia26.78
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.93
4BulgariaBGREastern Europe25.22
5JamaicaJAMCaribbean25.19
6SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe24.64
7ItalyITASouthern Europe24.34
8SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe24.23
9IsraelISRWestern Asia23.41
10AustriaAUTWestern Europe23.19
11SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe23.10
12PortugalPRTSouthern Europe23.05
13BarbadosBRBCaribbean22.54
14PolandPOLEastern Europe22.48
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe22.22
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe21.79
17Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia21.74
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe21.57
19MoldovaMDAEastern Europe20.94
20San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe20.82
21Costa RicaCRICentral America20.34
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe20.25
23DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe20.19
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa20.14
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe19.24

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1South Korea34.57
  2. 2Cyprus26.78
  3. 3Iceland25.93
  4. 4Bulgaria25.22
  5. 5Jamaica25.19

Lowest

  1. 68Monaco3.77
  2. 67Egypt6.37
  3. 66Trinidad and Tobago7.46
  4. 65Romania8.36
  5. 64Turks and Caicos Islands8.66

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 17.81. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −11countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 19 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Australia+ Greece+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Oman− United Arab Emirates− United Kingdom− Croatia− India− Ireland− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− Ukraine− United States− Uzbekistan

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 68 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) (2022). Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student/2022

0624 held

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07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government funding per primary student in Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022?

South Korea, at 34.57, of the 68 countries in the file.

What year does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022 cover?

68.

Where can I download Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-10, when it was read from the publisher.

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