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Government Spending on Education, 1976

Figures for 1976, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 1976 covers 51 countries. Puerto Rico is highest, at 7.1405; Brunei is lowest, at 0.9178. The middle country reads 4.3127. Against 1975, 44 values changed (28 up, 16 down), 7 countries joined, 11 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 1976

HighestPuerto Rico

7.1405

LowestBrunei

0.9178

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 Spending on Education, 1976, 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 51 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 1976: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Puerto RicoPRICaribbean7.1405
2CanadaCANNorthern America6.6984
3Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa6.4621
4United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe6.4242
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6.3030
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.1636
7BotswanaBWASouthern Africa6.0640
8MoroccoMARNorthern Africa6.0271
9ZambiaZMBEastern Africa6.0269
10BarbadosBRBCaribbean5.9448
11JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.8583
12SyriaSYRWestern Asia5.8315
13GhanaGHAWestern Africa5.8288
14KenyaKENEastern Africa5.7441
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe5.7310
16IsraelISRWestern Asia5.6541
17New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand5.4547
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe5.2583
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe5.2279
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.9434
21JapanJPNEastern Asia4.7478
22SeychellesSYCEastern Africa4.7460
23LibyaLBYNorthern Africa4.6365
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe4.4736
25FranceFRAWestern Europe4.4707

02In 1976

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Puerto Rico7.1405
  2. 2Canada6.6984
  3. 3Côte d’Ivoire6.4621
  4. 4United Kingdom6.4242
  5. 5Netherlands6.3030

Lowest

  1. 51Brunei0.9178
  2. 50Argentina1.1656
  3. 49Greece1.4687
  4. 48Guatemala1.6273
  5. 47Myanmar1.7262

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.3127. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031975 → 1976

Since 1975

What changed between 1975 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −11countries joined / left
  • 44values changed, of 44 in both
  • 28 · 16rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Barbados+ Spain+ Guatemala+ Ireland+ Libya+ Qatar+ Eswatini− Bermuda− Bhutan− Chile− Republic of the Congo− Denmark− Iran− Sri Lanka− Mauritius− Nigeria− El Salvador− Venezuela

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 51 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) (1976). Government Spending on Education, 1976 [data set], describing 1976. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/1976

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 1976: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 1976?

Puerto Rico, at 7.1405, of the 51 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 1976 describe?

1976.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 1976 cover?

51.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 1976?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Government Spending on Education, 1976 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Government Spending on Education, 2023.

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