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Government Spending on Education, 2017

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2017 covers 174 countries. Micronesia is highest, at 12.6816; Nigeria is lowest, at 0.3964. The middle country reads 4.1401. Against 2016, 163 values changed (67 up, 96 down), 11 countries joined, 3 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2017

HighestMicronesia

12.6816

LowestNigeria

0.3964

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, 2017, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MicronesiaFSMMicronesia12.6816
2KiribatiKIRMicronesia11.4762
3CubaCUBCaribbean8.4441
4LesothoLSOSouthern Africa8.1553
5BoliviaBOLSouth America8.0972
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.8460
7BotswanaBWASouthern Africa7.8092
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.6385
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.5838
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7.3700
11Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia7.1709
12Costa RicaCRICentral America7.0698
13MontserratMSRCaribbean6.7248
14BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.6172
15BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.4492
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.4083
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia6.3544
18BrazilBRASouth America6.3205
19NauruNRUMicronesia6.2740
20EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa6.1779
21KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia6.0262
22IsraelISRWestern Asia6.0043
23OmanOMNWestern Asia5.9959
24BelizeBLZCentral America5.9507
25CuraçaoCUWCaribbean5.9144

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Micronesia12.6816
  2. 2Kiribati11.4762
  3. 3Cuba8.4441
  4. 4Lesotho8.1553
  5. 5Bolivia8.0972

Lowest

  1. 174Nigeria0.3964
  2. 173Indonesia1.0532
  3. 172Bermuda1.3250
  4. 171Namibia1.3952
  5. 170DR Congo1.4549

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.1401. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −3countries joined / left
  • 163values changed, of 163 in both
  • 67 · 96rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ France+ Greece+ Grenada+ Croatia+ Luxembourg+ Myanmar+ Oman+ Portugal+ Qatar+ Tonga− Brunei− Mauritania− South Sudan

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 174 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) (2017). Government Spending on Education, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2017

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2017?

Micronesia, at 12.6816, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2017 cover?

174.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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