Government spending on education, share of government spending
General government expenditure on education as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors. Calculated and published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
A share of the government budget, not of GDP; for that see education_expenditure_gdp. UIS divides by total government spending from IMF figures or, for some countries, from government budget documents, so a recent year can be revised. Countries only; UIS publishes no World figure.
Key facts
- Government spending on education, share of government spending in the United States was 11.3% in 2021, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Sierra Leone had the highest government spending on education, share of government spending of 156 countries in 2022, at 29.4%, and Somalia the lowest, at 2.8%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Published for 200 places, with figures from 1980 to 2025.
Rankings
Countries by government spending on education, share of government spending, 2022
Places with data
Countries
- India
- China
- United States
- Indonesia
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Bangladesh
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Somalia
- Bolivia
- Dominican Republic
- Norway
- Senegal
- Guinea
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