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Government Spending on Education, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2006 covers 105 countries. American Samoa is highest, at 14.717; Gambia is lowest, at 0.752. The middle country reads 4.059. Against 2005, 87 values changed (40 up, 47 down), 18 countries joined, 21 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2006

HighestAmerican Samoa

14.717

LowestGambia

0.752

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, 2006, 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 105 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1American SamoaASMPolynesia14.717
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa11.271
3CubaCUBCaribbean9.057
4DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa8.279
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7.716
6MoldovaMDAEastern Europe7.499
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.195
8KenyaKENEastern Africa7.050
9EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa6.555
10Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa6.530
11TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.439
12BoliviaBOLSouth America6.434
13SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.373
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.358
15CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.330
16BelarusBLREastern Europe6.077
17NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa6.032
18UkraineUKREastern Europe5.979
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe5.930
20Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia5.891
21FijiFJIMelanesia5.655
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe5.622
23IsraelISRWestern Asia5.584
24KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia5.550
25EthiopiaETHEastern Africa5.491

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1American Samoa14.717
  2. 2Lesotho11.271
  3. 3Cuba9.057
  4. 4Djibouti8.279
  5. 5Denmark7.716

Lowest

  1. 105Gambia0.752
  2. 104Central African Republic1.415
  3. 103Sudan1.554
  4. 102Mauritania1.959
  5. 101Pakistan1.981

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.059. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −21countries joined / left
  • 87values changed, of 87 in both
  • 40 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Guyana8.140 → 3.119−5.021
  • Ghana7.422 → 5.148−2.274
  • Cuba10.558 → 9.057−1.501
  • Kuwait4.738 → 3.760−0.978
  • Lesotho12.080 → 11.271−0.808
+ American Samoa+ Bangladesh+ Bahrain+ Bolivia+ Cabo Verde+ Costa Rica+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Liechtenstein+ Latvia+ Mauritania+ Malaysia+ Namibia+ Niger+ Seychelles+ Syria+ Venezuela− Aruba− Burundi− Belgium− Bermuda− Barbados− Bhutan− Botswana− Canada− Republic of the Congo− Estonia− Guinea− Greece− Indonesia− Jamaica− Mali− Qatar− Sierra Leone− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− 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 105 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) (2006). Government Spending on Education, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2006

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2006?

American Samoa, at 14.717, of the 105 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2006 cover?

105.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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