Indicator field guide / SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS

Government education spending

General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Unit: % of GDP. Original provider definition and metadata ↗

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Covered economies, 2023

Economy	Value
Albania	3.1%
Algeria	5.6%
Andorra	1.9%
Angola	2.5%
Antigua and Barbuda	3.1%
Argentina	5.0%
Armenia	2.4%
Azerbaijan	3.7%
Bahamas, The	2.7%
Bahrain	1.9%
Bangladesh	2.2%
Barbados	3.8%
Belarus	4.9%
Belize	4.2%
Benin	3.2%
Bermuda	1.9%
Bhutan	5.8%
Bolivia	7.9%
Bosnia and Herzegovina	3.2%
Burkina Faso	5.3%
Cabo Verde	4.3%
Cambodia	2.2%
Cameroon	2.8%
Cayman Islands	1.6%
Central African Republic	1.8%
Chad	3.2%
China	3.9%
Comoros	2.3%
Congo, Rep.	3.3%
Costa Rica	5.3%
Cote d'Ivoire	3.4%
Curacao	5.3%
Dominica	4.7%
Dominican Republic	3.8%
Ecuador	3.8%
El Salvador	3.2%
Eswatini	5.0%
Ethiopia	2.9%
Fiji	4.2%
Gabon	2.3%
Gambia, The	2.8%
Georgia	3.7%
Grenada	5.1%
Guatemala	3.1%
Guinea	1.7%
Haiti	1.0%
Honduras	4.5%
Hong Kong SAR, China	3.8%
Indonesia	1.3%
Iran, Islamic Rep.	2.8%
Jamaica	5.7%
Jordan	3.5%
Kazakhstan	4.9%
Kenya	4.0%
Kiribati	16.4%
Kuwait	5.0%
Kyrgyz Republic	6.8%
Lao PDR	1.2%
Lebanon	1.5%
Lesotho	7.3%
Liberia	2.3%
Macao SAR, China	3.5%
Madagascar	3.0%
Malaysia	3.5%
Maldives	5.2%
Mali	4.2%
Mauritania	4.7%
Mauritius	4.6%
Moldova	6.6%
Mongolia	3.7%
Morocco	6.0%
Naoero	5.8%
Nepal	4.0%
New Zealand	5.2%
Nicaragua	2.9%
Niger	4.1%
Nigeria	0.3%
Pakistan	1.9%
Palau	3.4%
Panama	2.5%
Papua New Guinea	0.8%
Paraguay	3.4%
Peru	4.2%
Philippines	3.6%
Puerto Rico (US)	4.3%
Russian Federation	4.2%
Rwanda	4.9%
Samoa	6.1%
Sao Tome and Principe	5.0%
Saudi Arabia	4.5%
Senegal	6.2%
Serbia	3.4%
Seychelles	4.5%
Sierra Leone	2.6%
Singapore	2.1%
Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	3.9%
Solomon Islands	8.3%
Somalia, Fed. Rep.	0.0%
South Africa	6.1%
Sri Lanka	1.8%
St. Kitts and Nevis	3.5%
St. Lucia	2.7%
St. Vincent and the Grenadines	6.5%
Suriname	2.9%
Tajikistan	5.4%
Tanzania	3.3%
Thailand	2.5%
Timor-Leste	5.2%
Togo	4.1%
Trinidad and Tobago	3.2%
Tunisia	6.7%
Turkmenistan	2.7%
Turks and Caicos Islands	2.7%
Tuvalu	12.8%
Uruguay	4.8%
Uzbekistan	5.5%
Vanuatu	7.6%
Zambia	4.1%
Zimbabwe	0.4%

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