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Proportion of total government spending on essential services, education (UIS methodology)

Name: Proportion of total government spending on essential services, education (UIS methodology)
Creator: United Nations SDG Global Database
Keywords: trend-research-200, un-sdg, education-schools-skills, proportion, total, government, spending, essential, services, education

Compare proportion of total government spending on essential services, education (uis methodology) across 56 countries using official UN SDG Global Database observations for 2025.

Source: United Nations SDG Global Database•56 countries

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Key Insights

Global Average

13.3%

Median: 12.4%

Countries Covered

56

with available data

Highest

Kenya

28.5%

Lowest

Timor-Leste

4.3%

Top 5 Countries

1Kenya28.5%

2Namibia24.6%

3Bhutan22.2%

4Senegal20.9%

5Dominican Republic20.9%

By Region

Africa17.4%(4 countries)

North America17.3%(1 countries)

South America15.5%(1 countries)

Other12.9%(43 countries)

Asia12.1%(7 countries)

Key Findings

•56 ISO-mapped countries or territories have a finite fixed-year observation.
•Kenya has the highest published value (28.5406 %).
•Timor-Leste has the lowest published value (4.33097 %).

Country Rankings

Top 10 Countries

Bottom 10 Countries

Data Analysis

Value Distribution

How countries are distributed across the value range

Low (4.3%)High (28.5%)

Regional Comparison

Average values by world region (Global avg: 13.3%)

Africa (4)

North America (1)

South America (1)

Other (43)

Asia (7)

Percentile Profile

The curve shows how values change from the lowest to the highest country. Steep sections reveal inequality or outliers.

0th percentile · lowest100th percentile · highest

About This Statistic

Proportion of total government spending on essential services, education [UIS methodology] (%).

Values use UN SDG series SD_XPD_ESED, release 2026.Q2.G.01, one fixed 2025 reference year, unit Percentage, and the fixed selection Reporting Type: Global. Aggregates, missing/non-finite values, other dimensions, other attributes, and non-ISO geographies are excluded; MapTheory does not impute missing countries.

Methodology

UN SDG series SD_XPD_ESED; year 2025; unit PERCENT; dimensions {"Reporting Type": "G"}; attributes {"Nature": "C", "Units": "PERCENT"} Official UN SDG metadata for indicator 1.a.2.

Full Data

Rank ↑	Country ↕	Value ↕
1	Kenya	28.5%
2	Namibia	24.6%
3	Bhutan	22.2%
4	Senegal	20.9%
5	Dominican Republic	20.9%
6	Sierra Leone	20.5%
7	Eswatini	19.2%
8	South Africa	19.1%
9	Benin	18.0%
10	Zimbabwe	17.9%
11	Tunisia	17.3%
12	Guatemala	17.3%
13	Tuvalu	16.8%
14	El Salvador	15.9%
15	Algeria	15.5%
16	Ecuador	15.5%
17	Philippines	15.2%
18	North Korea	14.6%
19	Zambia	14.5%
20	Republic of The Gambia	14.2%
21	Barbados	14.2%
22	Rwanda	13.9%
23	Kuwait	13.8%
24	Fiji	13.8%
25	Haiti	13.2%
26	Saint Lucia	12.7%
27	Thailand	12.6%
28	Trinidad and Tobago	12.6%
29	Andorra	12.1%
30	Singapore	12.0%
31	Azerbaijan	11.9%
32	Bangladesh	11.9%
33	Samoa	11.7%
34	Paraguay	11.7%
35	Cambodia	11.6%
36	Comoros	11.5%
37	Grenada	11.4%
38	Saint Kitts and Nevis	11.0%
39	Nepal	10.8%
40	Seychelles	10.7%
41	Bahamas	10.6%
42	Indonesia	10.6%
43	Burundi	10.3%
44	Maldives	9.6%
45	Guinea	9.2%
46	Palau	9.1%
47	Armenia	8.7%
48	Lebanon	8.6%
49	Bahrain	8.3%
50	Somalia	8.1%
51	Guyana	7.2%
52	Nauru	6.6%
53	Angola	6.5%
54	Antigua and Barbuda	5.9%
55	Dominica	5.8%
56	Timor-Leste	4.3%

Showing 56 of 56 countries

Topics

#trend-research-200 #un-sdg #education-schools-skills #proportion #total #government #spending #essential #services #education

Data Source

This data comes from United Nations SDG Global Database (2025).

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