Government Spending on Education, 2005

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Government Spending on Education, 2005: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)
1	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	12.0797
2	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	10.6786
3	CubaCUBCaribbean	10.5578
4	DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa	8.3659
5	GuyanaGUYSouth America	8.1397
6	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	8.0647
7	GhanaGHAWestern Africa	7.4221
8	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	7.3384
9	KenyaKENEastern Africa	7.3356
10	MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	7.1627
11	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	6.8408
12	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	6.7642
13	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	6.5152
14	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	6.4846
15	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	6.4516
16	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	6.2867
17	Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	6.0308
18	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	6.0258
19	BelarusBLREastern Europe	5.8710
20	UkraineUKREastern Europe	5.8482
21	BelgiumBELWestern Europe	5.7958
22	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	5.6697
23	SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe	5.6444
24	IsraelISRWestern Asia	5.5649
25	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	5.4309

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.0557. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Angola+ Belgium+ Burkina Faso+ Botswana+ Canada+ El Salvador+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Bangladesh− Belize− Cabo Verde− Costa Rica− Eritrea− Croatia− Cambodia− Liechtenstein− Latvia− Monaco− Malta− Mongolia− Mauritania− Malaysia− Panama− Paraguay− Syria− Tonga− Uganda

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.

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