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Government Spending on Education, 2010

Figures for 2010, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2010 covers 138 countries. Cuba is highest, at 12.8373; Senegal is lowest, at 0.5448. The middle country reads 4.1396. Against 2009, 102 values changed (41 up, 61 down), 36 countries joined, 13 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2010

HighestCuba

12.8373

LowestSenegal

0.5448

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, 2010, 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 138 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2010: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1CubaCUBCaribbean12.8373
2Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia11.1066
3São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa9.9883
4AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa8.6918
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8.5502
6NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa8.2433
7MoldovaMDAEastern Europe7.5923
8Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia7.4784
9BoliviaBOLSouth America6.9738
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe6.9442
11BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.7752
12ArubaABWCaribbean6.7511
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.7104
14Costa RicaCRICentral America6.5658
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe6.5632
16CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.5256
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.5043
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.4408
19JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.3706
20MaltaMLTSouthern Europe6.2080
21PalestinePSEWestern Asia6.1917
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa6.1184
23BarbadosBRBCaribbean6.0526
24IrelandIRLNorthern Europe6.0484
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa5.9631

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Cuba12.8373
  2. 2Timor-Leste11.1066
  3. 3São Tomé and Príncipe9.9883
  4. 4Algeria8.6918
  5. 5Denmark8.5502

Lowest

  1. 138Senegal0.5448
  2. 137South Sudan1.0453
  3. 136Central African Republic1.1176
  4. 135Cambodia1.2487
  5. 134Monaco1.3174

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.1396. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +36 / −13countries joined / left
  • 102values changed, of 102 in both
  • 41 · 61rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Malta5.0478 → 6.2080+1.1602
  • Qatar3.4132 → 4.5397+1.1265
  • Aruba5.7974 → 6.7511+0.9537
  • Barbados5.1104 → 6.0526+0.9422
  • Belarus4.3689 → 5.2200+0.8511

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Angola+ Burkina Faso+ Bahrain+ Bahamas+ Brunei+ DR Congo+ Republic of the Congo+ Germany+ Djibouti+ Dominican Republic+ Algeria+ Gabon+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guatemala+ Jordan+ Japan+ Kenya+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Mozambique+ Montserrat+ Malawi+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Paraguay+ Palestine+ Russia+ Rwanda+ San Marino+ South Sudan+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Uganda+ British Virgin Islands+ Zambia+ Zimbabwe− Antigua and Barbuda− Bangladesh− Botswana− Fiji− Morocco− Oman− Philippines− Sudan− Serbia− Syria− Ukraine− Venezuela− 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 138 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) (2010). Government Spending on Education, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2010

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2010: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2010?

Cuba, at 12.8373, of the 138 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2010 describe?

2010.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2010 cover?

138.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2010?

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, 2010 the newest?

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

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