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Government Spending on Education, 1999

Figures for 1999, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 1999 covers 115 countries. Marshall Islands is highest, at 13.850; Monaco is lowest, at 1.195. The middle country reads 4.212. Against 1998, 72 values changed (36 up, 36 down), 43 countries joined, 17 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 1999

HighestMarshall Islands

13.850

LowestMonaco

1.195

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, 1999, 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 115 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia13.850
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa12.499
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia9.706
4GuyanaGUYSouth America8.561
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7.935
6DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa7.629
7NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa7.131
8Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.072
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.962
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.843
11Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa6.802
12CubaCUBCaribbean6.755
13EstoniaESTNorthern Europe6.652
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand6.636
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe6.434
16MicronesiaFSMMicronesia6.425
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.271
18IsraelISRWestern Asia6.196
19VanuatuVUTMelanesia6.163
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe6.136
21BelarusBLREastern Europe6.000
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe5.871
23Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean5.753
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe5.698
25MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia5.687

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Marshall Islands13.850
  2. 2Lesotho12.499
  3. 3Kiribati9.706
  4. 4Guyana8.561
  5. 5Denmark7.935

Lowest

  1. 115Monaco1.195
  2. 114Ecuador1.547
  3. 113Gambia1.565
  4. 112Guinea1.620
  5. 111Central African Republic1.690

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.212. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +43 / −17countries joined / left
  • 72values changed, of 72 in both
  • 36 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ Belarus+ Belize+ Barbados+ Central African Republic+ Costa Rica+ Cyprus+ Djibouti+ Finland+ Micronesia+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Guyana+ Iran+ Jordan+ Kazakhstan+ Kenya+ Kiribati+ Libya+ Lesotho+ Moldova+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritania+ Mauritius+ Malawi+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Niger+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Panama+ Portugal+ Rwanda+ Slovakia+ Eswatini+ Tunisia+ Samoa+ South Africa− Angola− Bulgaria− Bermuda− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Germany− France− Equatorial Guinea− Cambodia− Sri Lanka− Lithuania− Malta− Philippines− Solomon Islands− Türkiye− Tanzania− Uruguay

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 115 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) (1999). Government Spending on Education, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/1999

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 1999?

Marshall Islands, at 13.850, of the 115 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 1999 cover?

115.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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