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Government Spending on Education, 2022

Figures for 2022, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Government Spending on Education, 2022 covers 166 countries. Kiribati is highest, at 14.78603; Somalia is lowest, at 0.00001. The middle country reads 4.05695. Against 2021, 159 values changed (50 up, 109 down), 7 countries joined, 12 left.

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Government Spending on Education · Data for 2022

HighestKiribati

14.78603

LowestSomalia

0.00001

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, 2022, 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, 2022: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1KiribatiKIRMicronesia14.78603
2TuvaluTUVPolynesia13.76219
3VanuatuVUTMelanesia10.70335
4NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa9.39195
5Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia8.48738
6CubaCUBCaribbean8.44086
7MontserratMSRCaribbean7.72080
8Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia7.70088
9BoliviaBOLSouth America7.57551
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia7.46982
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe7.31910
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe7.30798
13KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia7.16884
14Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean7.07575
15TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa6.80499
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia6.58236
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe6.37578
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe6.35586
19BelgiumBELWestern Europe6.27611
20SamoaWSMPolynesia6.15979
21South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa6.15599
22MoldovaMDAEastern Europe6.10430
23CuraçaoCUWCaribbean6.08167
24MacauMACEastern Asia6.05707
25DominicaDMACaribbean6.04314

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Kiribati14.78603
  2. 2Tuvalu13.76219
  3. 3Vanuatu10.70335
  4. 4Namibia9.39195
  5. 5Solomon Islands8.48738

Lowest

  1. 166Somalia0.00001
  2. 165Nigeria0.34852
  3. 164Papua New Guinea0.64338
  4. 163Indonesia0.86394
  5. 162Haiti1.02690

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.05695. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

What changed between 2021 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −12countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 159 in both
  • 50 · 109rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Greece+ Iran+ Lebanon+ Malawi+ Oman+ Sint Maarten+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Aruba− United Arab Emirates− Burundi− Cook Islands− United Kingdom− Croatia− Ireland− Japan− Palestine− Timor-Leste− Ukraine− United States

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) (2022). Government Spending on Education, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending/2022

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07Questions

Government Spending on Education, 2022: questions and answers

Which country has the highest government spending on education in Government Spending on Education, 2022?

Kiribati, at 14.78603, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Government Spending on Education, 2022 describe?

2022.

How many countries does Government Spending on Education, 2022 cover?

166.

Where can I download Government Spending on Education, 2022?

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, 2022 the newest?

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

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