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Government Spending on Education, 2018

Figures for 2018, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2018 covers 168 countries. Kiribati is highest, at 12.920; Somalia is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 4.216. Against 2017, 165 values changed (77 up, 88 down), 3 countries joined, 9 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2018

HighestKiribati

12.920

LowestSomalia

0.000

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, 2018, 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 168 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1KiribatiKIRMicronesia12.920
2MicronesiaFSMMicronesia9.943
3NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa8.881
4VanuatuVUTMelanesia8.606
5CubaCUBCaribbean8.025
6BoliviaBOLSouth America8.016
7BotswanaBWASouthern Africa7.905
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.698
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe7.596
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.564
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe7.327
12LesothoLSOSouthern Africa7.284
13Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia6.848
14Costa RicaCRICentral America6.770
15BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.478
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia6.392
17BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.389
18FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.318
19BelizeBLZCentral America6.128
20BrazilBRASouth America6.089
21IsraelISRWestern Asia6.069
22HondurasHNDCentral America6.056
23CuraçaoCUWCaribbean5.939
24AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa5.813
25EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa5.737

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kiribati12.920
  2. 2Micronesia9.943
  3. 3Namibia8.881
  4. 4Vanuatu8.606
  5. 5Cuba8.025

Lowest

  1. 168Somalia0.000
  2. 167Nigeria0.420
  3. 166Indonesia0.994
  4. 165Central African Republic1.566
  5. 164Cambodia1.603

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.216. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −9countries joined / left
  • 165values changed, of 165 in both
  • 77 · 88rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Cayman Islands+ Cambodia+ Somalia− Afghanistan− DR Congo− Cyprus− Monaco− Malta− Mongolia− Montserrat− Palestine− Qatar

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 168 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) (2018). Government Spending on Education, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2018

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2018?

Kiribati, at 12.920, of the 168 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2018 cover?

168.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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