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Government Spending on Education, 2013

Figures for 2013, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2013 covers 156 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 12.3439; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.5342. The middle country reads 4.3493. Against 2012, 143 values changed (76 up, 67 down), 13 countries joined, 8 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2013

HighestMicronesia

12.3439

LowestNigeria

0.5342

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, 2013, 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 156 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2013: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia12.3439
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia12.0903
3CubaCUBCaribbean10.6717
4NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa8.5954
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe8.4686
6BotswanaBWASouthern Africa8.0172
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.6466
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.4487
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.4391
10MaltaMLTSouthern Europe7.4067
11LatviaLVANorthern Europe7.2496
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe7.1529
13BoliviaBOLSouth America6.8032
14KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia6.7802
15Costa RicaCRICentral America6.6874
16São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa6.6851
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa6.6591
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.6014
19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean6.4811
20CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.4675
21ArubaABWCaribbean6.4430
22UkraineUKREastern Europe6.4199
23JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.2511
24MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa6.0358
25ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa5.9960

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia12.3439
  2. 2Kiribati12.0903
  3. 3Cuba10.6717
  4. 4Namibia8.5954
  5. 5Denmark8.4686

Lowest

  1. 156Nigeria0.5342
  2. 155South Sudan1.0245
  3. 154Monaco1.3344
  4. 153Sierra Leone1.5607
  5. 152Sri Lanka1.5646

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.3493. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −8countries joined / left
  • 143values changed, of 143 in both
  • 76 · 67rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan+ Canada+ Chile+ DR Congo+ Cyprus+ Dominican Republic+ United Kingdom+ Croatia+ New Zealand+ Oman+ Puerto Rico+ San Marino+ Uzbekistan− Brunei− Grenada− Guyana− Luxembourg− Morocco− Sint Maarten− Turkmenistan− Tunisia

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 156 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) (2013). Government Spending on Education, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2013

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2013?

Micronesia, at 12.3439, of the 156 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2013 cover?

156.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2013?

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, 2013 the newest?

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

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