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Government Spending on Education, 2003

Figures for 2003, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2003 covers 107 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 13.220; Gambia is lowest, at 1.363. The middle country reads 4.160. Against 2002, 98 values changed (53 up, 45 down), 9 countries joined, 23 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2003

HighestLesotho

13.220

LowestGambia

1.363

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, 2003, 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 107 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2003: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1LesothoLSOSouthern Africa13.220
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia11.844
3CubaCUBCaribbean9.941
4DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa8.890
5VanuatuVUTMelanesia8.442
6Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean8.175
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8.110
8MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia7.503
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.399
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.245
11Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.105
12GuyanaGUYSouth America6.956
13TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.817
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.797
15CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.670
16KenyaKENEastern Africa6.494
17SyriaSYRWestern Asia6.481
18BarbadosBRBCaribbean6.246
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.169
20NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa6.137
21IsraelISRWestern Asia6.135
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa5.817
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe5.799
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe5.757
25MoldovaMDAEastern Europe5.425

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lesotho13.220
  2. 2Marshall Islands11.844
  3. 3Cuba9.941
  4. 4Djibouti8.890
  5. 5Vanuatu8.442

Lowest

  1. 107Gambia1.363
  2. 106Central African Republic1.540
  3. 105Guinea1.626
  4. 104Bermuda1.666
  5. 103Dominican Republic1.845

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.160. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −23countries joined / left
  • 98values changed, of 98 in both
  • 53 · 45rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Belize+ Bermuda+ Cameroon+ Egypt+ Grenada+ India+ Saint Lucia+ Liechtenstein+ Malawi− Aruba− Andorra− Antigua and Barbuda− Burundi− Brazil− Canada− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Ethiopia− Fiji− Kazakhstan− Cambodia− Kuwait− Laos− Lebanon− North Macedonia− Malta− Mongolia− Nauru− Palau− Sudan− Samoa

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 107 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) (2003). Government Spending on Education, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2003

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2003?

Lesotho, at 13.220, of the 107 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2003 cover?

107.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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