Education share of total government spending
Compare education share of total government spending across 47 ISO-mapped countries or territories using the fixed 2024 UN SDG Global Database slice.
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Key Insights
- •47 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite 2024 observation in the selected slice.
- •Tajikistan has the highest published value (20.69526017426076 %).
- •Somalia has the lowest published value (4.448348688032868 %).
Country Rankings
Top 10 Countries
Bottom 10 Countries
Data Analysis
Value Distribution
How countries are distributed across the value range
Regional Comparison
Average values by world region (Global avg: 12.5%)
About This Statistic
Total general government expenditure on education expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors.
MapTheory retains one fixed year, unit and dimension slice. Only finite ISO-mapped observations are included; aggregates, missing values, non-ISO geographies, conflicting duplicates and other dimensions are excluded. No values are estimated or imputed by MapTheory.
Methodology
Total general government expenditure on education expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors.
Full Data
| Rank ↑ | Country ↕ | Value ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tajikistan | 20.7% |
| 2 | South Africa | 20.5% |
| 3 | Dominican Republic | 19.9% |
| 4 | Chile | 19.9% |
| 5 | Guatemala | 19.3% |
| 6 | Paraguay | 18.9% |
| 7 | Nicaragua | 18.0% |
| 8 | Mozambique | 17.7% |
| 9 | Kyrgyzstan | 17.2% |
| 10 | Georgia | 15.9% |
| 11 | Switzerland | 15.2% |
| 12 | Philippines | 15.1% |
| 13 | Israel | 14.9% |
| 14 | Zambia | 14.6% |
| 15 | Indonesia | 14.5% |
| 16 | Sweden | 14.3% |
| 17 | Mongolia | 13.8% |
| 18 | Madagascar | 13.6% |
| 19 | Macao | 13.6% |
| 20 | Ethiopia | 13.5% |
| 21 | New Zealand | 13.4% |
| 22 | El Salvador | 13.1% |
| 23 | Belarus | 12.8% |
| 24 | Denmark | 11.7% |
| 25 | Thailand | 11.5% |
| 26 | Canada | 11.4% |
| 27 | Uganda | 11.2% |
| 28 | Brazil | 11.1% |
| 29 | Luxembourg | 10.8% |
| 30 | Armenia | 10.5% |
| 31 | Mauritius | 10.3% |
| 32 | People's Republic of China | 10.2% |
| 33 | Albania | 10.1% |
| 34 | Bahamas | 10.0% |
| 35 | Norway | 9.8% |
| 36 | Singapore | 9.7% |
| 37 | Austria | 9.6% |
| 38 | Spain | 9.1% |
| 39 | Türkiye | 9.1% |
| 40 | Germany | 9.1% |
| 41 | San Marino | 8.4% |
| 42 | Andorra | 7.8% |
| 43 | Nauru | 6.6% |
| 44 | United Arab Emirates | 6.2% |
| 45 | Lebanon | 5.3% |
| 46 | Argentina | 5.0% |
| 47 | Somalia | 4.4% |
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Data Source
This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2024).
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