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Government Spending on Education, 1979

Figures for 1979, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 1979 covers 56 countries. Guyana is highest, at 9.378; Brunei is lowest, at 0.717. The middle country reads 4.155. Against 1978, 40 values changed (19 up, 21 down), 16 countries joined, 12 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 1979

HighestGuyana

9.378

LowestBrunei

0.717

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, 1979, 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 56 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 1979: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America9.378
2Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa8.231
3AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.182
4Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa7.038
5CanadaCANNorthern America6.692
6SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.382
7IsraelISRWestern Asia6.377
8EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa6.364
9MoroccoMARNorthern Africa6.315
10BotswanaBWASouthern Africa6.142
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe6.081
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand5.889
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe5.584
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe5.380
15IrelandIRLNorthern Europe5.288
16FijiFJIMelanesia5.198
17MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia5.088
18JordanJORWestern Asia5.082
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe5.058
20SyriaSYRWestern Asia4.966
21JapanJPNEastern Asia4.950
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe4.796
23TogoTGOWestern Africa4.730
24New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand4.468
25LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe4.403

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Guyana9.378
  2. 2Côte d’Ivoire8.231
  3. 3Algeria7.182
  4. 4Republic of the Congo7.038
  5. 5Canada6.692

Lowest

  1. 56Brunei0.717
  2. 55Bangladesh1.131
  3. 54Colombia1.754
  4. 53Uruguay1.987
  5. 52Ethiopia2.004

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.155. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −12countries joined / left
  • 40values changed, of 40 in both
  • 19 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ Colombia+ Algeria+ Finland+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Guyana+ South Korea+ Sri Lanka+ Madagascar+ Malaysia+ Sweden+ Togo+ Thailand+ Uruguay− Burkina Faso− Central African Republic− Egypt− Greece− Hong Kong− Liberia− Mali− Myanmar− Mauritius− Norway− Puerto Rico− Qatar

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 56 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) (1979). Government Spending on Education, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/1979

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 1979?

Guyana, at 9.378, of the 56 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 1979 cover?

56.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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