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Government Spending on Education, 2004

Figures for 2004, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2004 covers 119 countries. Lesotho is highest, at 11.109; Gambia is lowest, at 0.622. The middle country reads 3.974. Against 2003, 94 values changed (33 up, 61 down), 25 countries joined, 13 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2004

HighestLesotho

11.109

LowestGambia

0.622

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, 2004, 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 119 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2004: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1LesothoLSOSouthern Africa11.109
2CubaCUBCaribbean10.268
3DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa9.265
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8.188
5GhanaGHAWestern Africa7.536
6Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa7.477
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.277
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.161
9KenyaKENEastern Africa6.797
10MoldovaMDAEastern Europe6.771
11TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.721
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.673
13Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia6.277
14FijiFJIMelanesia6.209
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.158
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.123
17CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.118
18BarbadosBRBCaribbean6.024
19MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia5.924
20IsraelISRWestern Asia5.750
21BelarusBLREastern Europe5.712
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe5.687
23KuwaitKWTWestern Asia5.535
24GuyanaGUYSouth America5.513
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa5.402

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Lesotho11.109
  2. 2Cuba10.268
  3. 3Djibouti9.265
  4. 4Denmark8.188
  5. 5Ghana7.536

Lowest

  1. 119Gambia0.622
  2. 118Monaco1.267
  3. 117Sudan1.313
  4. 116Pakistan1.443
  5. 115Guinea1.516

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.974. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +25 / −13countries joined / left
  • 94values changed, of 94 in both
  • 33 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Andorra+ Burundi+ Belarus+ Brazil+ Bhutan+ Cabo Verde+ Eritrea+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Kazakhstan+ Cambodia+ Kuwait+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Monaco+ Malta+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Pakistan+ Sudan+ Chad+ Tanzania+ Uganda+ Zambia− Dominican Republic− Grenada− Marshall Islands− Malawi− Namibia− Niger− Nicaragua− El Salvador− Seychelles− Turks and Caicos Islands− Trinidad and Tobago− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Vanuatu

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 119 countries has every column.

05The files

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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) (2004). Government Spending on Education, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2004

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2004?

Lesotho, at 11.109, of the 119 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2004 cover?

119.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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