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Government Spending on Education, 2001

Figures for 2001, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2001 covers 111 countries. Kiribati is highest, at 11.649; Gambia is lowest, at 1.158. The middle country reads 4.100. Against 2000, 98 values changed (57 up, 41 down), 13 countries joined, 21 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2001

HighestKiribati

11.649

LowestGambia

1.158

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, 2001, 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 111 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2001: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1KiribatiKIRMicronesia11.649
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa9.365
3YemenYEMWestern Asia9.245
4VanuatuVUTMelanesia8.951
5GuyanaGUYSouth America8.397
6CubaCUBCaribbean8.358
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8.211
8DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa7.805
9Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.719
10PalauPLWMicronesia7.584
11MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia7.484
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa6.889
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.820
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe6.706
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.615
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia6.586
17TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.202
18IsraelISRWestern Asia6.176
19BarbadosBRBCaribbean6.055
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe5.841
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe5.836
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe5.815
23Saint LuciaLCACaribbean5.707
24FijiFJIMelanesia5.643
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe5.605

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kiribati11.649
  2. 2Lesotho9.365
  3. 3Yemen9.245
  4. 4Vanuatu8.951
  5. 5Guyana8.397

Lowest

  1. 111Gambia1.158
  2. 110Guinea1.428
  3. 109Cambodia1.655
  4. 108Dominican Republic1.968
  5. 107Laos1.990

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.100. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −21countries joined / left
  • 98values changed, of 98 in both
  • 57 · 41rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Eritrea+ Ghana+ Hong Kong+ Indonesia+ Kuwait+ Lebanon+ Saint Lucia+ Lithuania+ Luxembourg+ Mauritania+ Slovenia+ Syria− Angola− Bahamas− Belarus− Brunei− Central African Republic− Chile− Ecuador− Micronesia− Gabon− India− Kazakhstan− Monaco− Mongolia− Nicaragua− New Zealand− Pakistan− Sudan− El Salvador− Uganda− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Zambia

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 111 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) (2001). Government Spending on Education, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2001

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2001?

Kiribati, at 11.649, of the 111 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2001 cover?

111.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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