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Government Spending on Education, 2021

Figures for 2021, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2021 covers 171 countries. Tuvalu is highest, at 15.5155; Somalia is lowest, at 0.0000. The middle country reads 4.2611. Against 2020, 165 values changed (57 up, 108 down), 6 countries joined, 8 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2021

HighestTuvalu

15.5155

LowestSomalia

0.0000

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, 2021, 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 171 countries · select a heading to sort

Government Spending on Education, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1TuvaluTUVPolynesia15.5155
2Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia15.1824
3KiribatiKIRMicronesia13.9872
4NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa10.3914
5VanuatuVUTMelanesia10.1102
6CubaCUBCaribbean9.3859
7Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia8.3323
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe8.2266
9BoliviaBOLSouth America7.9622
10KuwaitKWTWestern Asia7.7625
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.6022
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe6.9602
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6.9592
14TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.6798
15MontserratMSRCaribbean6.6507
16BhutanBTNSouthern Asia6.5984
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.5882
18South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa6.5552
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.3808
20MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa6.3406
21Costa RicaCRICentral America6.2484
22CuraçaoCUWCaribbean6.1816
23IsraelISRWestern Asia6.1673
24Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa6.1549
25BelizeBLZCentral America5.9630

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Tuvalu15.5155
  2. 2Marshall Islands15.1824
  3. 3Kiribati13.9872
  4. 4Namibia10.3914
  5. 5Vanuatu10.1102

Lowest

  1. 171Somalia0.0000
  2. 170Nigeria0.3819
  3. 169Papua New Guinea0.7140
  4. 168Indonesia1.0322
  5. 167Haiti1.2428

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.2611. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −8countries joined / left
  • 165values changed, of 165 in both
  • 57 · 108rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Grenada+ Monaco+ Malta+ Palestine+ Serbia− Botswana− Colombia− Micronesia− Iran− Lebanon− Oman− Qatar− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 171 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) (2021). Government Spending on Education, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2021

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2021?

Tuvalu, at 15.5155, of the 171 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2021 cover?

171.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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