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Government Spending on Education, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2015 covers 167 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 12.40792; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.43695. The middle country reads 4.23861. Against 2014, 157 values changed (68 up, 89 down), 10 countries joined, 7 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2015

HighestMicronesia

12.40792

LowestNigeria

0.43695

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, 2015, 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 167 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia12.40792
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia10.76839
3NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa9.85077
4CubaCUBCaribbean8.96336
5Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia8.46707
6BotswanaBWASouthern Africa8.39458
7BoliviaBOLSouth America8.14345
8LesothoLSOSouthern Africa7.64272
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.52336
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.49442
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.45796
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe7.07199
13BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.92886
14Costa RicaCRICentral America6.87350
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.46964
16MontserratMSRCaribbean6.44319
17HondurasHNDCentral America6.41298
18BurundiBDIEastern Africa6.37134
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.30491
20NauruNRUMicronesia6.25260
21BrazilBRASouth America6.24106
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.22045
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa6.17633
24KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia5.98552
25CuraçaoCUWCaribbean5.95011

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia12.40792
  2. 2Kiribati10.76839
  3. 3Namibia9.85077
  4. 4Cuba8.96336
  5. 5Timor-Leste8.46707

Lowest

  1. 167Nigeria0.43695
  2. 166South Sudan1.46556
  3. 165Bermuda1.50164
  4. 164Papua New Guinea1.62516
  5. 163Haiti1.85498

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.23861. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −7countries joined / left
  • 157values changed, of 157 in both
  • 68 · 89rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Greece+ South Korea+ Lesotho+ Papua New Guinea+ Palestine+ Suriname+ Tunisia+ United States+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Brunei− Denmark− Cambodia− Monaco− Qatar− Sint Maarten− Zimbabwe

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 167 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) (2015). Government Spending on Education, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2015

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2015?

Micronesia, at 12.40792, of the 167 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2015 cover?

167.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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