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Government Spending on Education, 1977

Figures for 1977, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 1977 covers 53 countries. Papua New Guinea is highest, at 7.3897; Greece is lowest, at 1.5148. The middle country reads 4.4738. Against 1976, 43 values changed (21 up, 22 down), 10 countries joined, 8 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 1977

HighestPapua New Guinea

7.3897

LowestGreece

1.5148

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, 1977, 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 53 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 1977: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Papua New GuineaPNGMelanesia7.3897
2GuyanaGUYSouth America7.0887
3CanadaCANNorthern America6.7109
4BarbadosBRBCaribbean6.5172
5Puerto RicoPRICaribbean6.3876
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6.1734
7GhanaGHAWestern Africa6.0953
8MoroccoMARNorthern Africa6.0842
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe6.0634
10JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.0265
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe5.9888
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe5.9728
13SyriaSYRWestern Asia5.7144
14ZambiaZMBEastern Africa5.6925
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe5.6804
16IsraelISRWestern Asia5.5550
17IranIRNSouthern Asia5.4163
18BotswanaBWASouthern Africa5.4003
19VenezuelaVENSouth America5.2567
20KenyaKENEastern Africa5.1363
21IrelandIRLNorthern Europe5.0853
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa5.0539
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe4.9735
24JapanJPNEastern Asia4.7374
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa4.5496

02In 1977

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Papua New Guinea7.3897
  2. 2Guyana7.0887
  3. 3Canada6.7109
  4. 4Barbados6.5172
  5. 5Puerto Rico6.3876

Lowest

  1. 53Greece1.5148
  2. 52Myanmar1.6378
  3. 51Argentina1.7198
  4. 50China1.7466
  5. 49Qatar1.9701

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.4738. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031976 → 1977

Since 1976

What changed between 1976 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −8countries joined / left
  • 43values changed, of 43 in both
  • 21 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Denmark+ Ecuador+ Ethiopia+ Guyana+ Iran+ Iraq+ Mauritius+ Papua New Guinea+ Rwanda+ Venezuela− Brunei− Côte d’Ivoire− Finland− Guatemala− Italy− Portugal− Seychelles− Uganda

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 53 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) (1977). Government Spending on Education, 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/1977

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 1977?

Papua New Guinea, at 7.3897, of the 53 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 1977 cover?

53.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 1977?

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, 1977 the newest?

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

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