Government Spending on Education, 2023

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Government Spending on Education, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	Government expenditure on education (% of GDP)
1	KiribatiKIRMicronesia	16.3905
2	TuvaluTUVPolynesia	12.8457
3	Solomon IslandsSLBMelanesia	8.2935
4	BoliviaBOLSouth America	7.8938
5	VanuatuVUTMelanesia	7.5814
6	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	7.2901
7	MontserratMSRCaribbean	7.1902
8	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	6.8269
9	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	6.7340
10	MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	6.5571
11	Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	6.4583
12	SenegalSENWestern Africa	6.1628
13	South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa	6.1235
14	SamoaWSMPolynesia	6.1096
15	MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	6.0210
16	BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	5.8452
17	NauruNRUMicronesia	5.7772
18	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	5.6545
19	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	5.6102
20	UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia	5.4729
21	TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	5.4368
22	Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa	5.3276
23	Costa RicaCRICentral America	5.3121
24	CuraçaoCUWCaribbean	5.3007
25	Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia	5.2405

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 3.7092. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ China+ Cook Islands+ Lesotho+ Mongolia+ Saudi Arabia+ Timor-Leste+ Zimbabwe− Anguilla− Australia− Austria− Belgium− Bulgaria− Brazil− Canada− Switzerland− Chile− DR Congo− Cuba− Cyprus− Czechia− Germany− Denmark− Spain− Estonia− Finland− France− Ghana− Greece− Hungary− India− Iceland− Israel− Italy− South Korea− Lithuania− Luxembourg− Latvia− Mexico− Marshall Islands− Malta− Mozambique− Malawi− Namibia− Netherlands− Norway− Oman− Poland− Portugal− Romania− San Marino− Slovakia− Slovenia− Sweden− Tonga− Türkiye− Uganda− Vietnam

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.

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