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Government Spending on Education, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2016 covers 166 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 13.81473; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.39305. The middle country reads 4.23418. Against 2015, 160 values changed (77 up, 83 down), 6 countries joined, 7 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2016

HighestMicronesia

13.81473

LowestNigeria

0.39305

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, 2016, 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 166 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia13.81473
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia11.64647
3NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa10.59279
4CubaCUBCaribbean9.01309
5BotswanaBWASouthern Africa8.73589
6BoliviaBOLSouth America8.15062
7Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia8.12838
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.98444
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7.71534
10VanuatuVUTMelanesia7.67743
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.63991
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa7.55247
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.43222
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.90873
15Costa RicaCRICentral America6.89396
16KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia6.58616
17AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa6.50211
18BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.48613
19BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.40446
20MontserratMSRCaribbean6.38916
21BrazilBRASouth America6.31403
22CuraçaoCUWCaribbean6.23495
23CyprusCYPWestern Asia6.11811
24São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa6.11516
25HondurasHNDCentral America6.09509

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia13.81473
  2. 2Kiribati11.64647
  3. 3Namibia10.59279
  4. 4Cuba9.01309
  5. 5Botswana8.73589

Lowest

  1. 166Nigeria0.39305
  2. 165Papua New Guinea0.85381
  3. 164Indonesia1.21023
  4. 163Bangladesh1.28184
  5. 162Monaco1.37126

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.23418. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −7countries joined / left
  • 160values changed, of 160 in both
  • 77 · 83rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brunei+ Denmark+ Kuwait+ Lebanon+ Monaco+ Serbia− Burkina Faso− Comoros− Greece− Grenada− Luxembourg− Portugal− 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 166 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) (2016). Government Spending on Education, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2016

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2016?

Micronesia, at 13.81473, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2016 cover?

166.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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