Government spending on education, share of government spending in El Salvador

Government spending on education, share of government spending in El Salvador was 15.9% in 2025, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics. That is up 5.3 pts from 2024. That is the 103rd highest of 156 countries in 2022.

202515.9%

Change on 2024+5.3 pts

Rank103rd of 156Countries ranked

Series high18.22008

Series low10.42023

Government spending on education, share of government spending in El Salvador, 1998 to 2025

%. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS) via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2026-10-08.

All 26 values

Period	%
2025	15.9
2024	10.6
2023	10.4
2022	11.4
2021	11.5
2020	11.2
2019	12.2
2018	13.1
2017	13.3
2016	13.9
2015	14.4
2014	13.9
2013	13.3
2012	13.6
2011	15.4
2010	15.8
2009	18
2008	18.2
2007	15.8
2006	14.9
2005	14.2
2003	13.9
2002	14.4
2000	13.5
1999	13
1998	13.2

Rankings

Definition

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.

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Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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APA 7

UNESCO Institute for Statistics. (2026). Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS) (Government spending on education, share of government spending, El Salvador, 1998 to 2025) [Data set]. World Bank, World Development Indicators. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS

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Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS), Government spending on education, share of government spending, El Salvador, 1998 to 2025. UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS. World Bank, World Development Indicators, https://data.worldbank.org. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/education-spending-government-share/el-salvador. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

UNESCO Institute for Statistics. 2026. Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS). Government spending on education, share of government spending, El Salvador, 1998 to 2025. Dataset. Distributed by World Bank, World Development Indicators. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/education-spending-government-share/el-salvador.

Harvard

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS), Government spending on education, share of government spending, El Salvador, 1998 to 2025 [Dataset]. Via World Bank, World Development Indicators. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/education-spending-government-share/el-salvador (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{unesco_government_spending_on_education_2025,
  author = {{UNESCO Institute for Statistics}},
  title = {{Government expenditure on education, total, \% of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS): Government spending on education, share of government spending, El Salvador, 1998 to 2025}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  publisher = {World Bank, World Development Indicators},
  url = {https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Retrieved through World Bank, World Development Indicators (https://data.worldbank.org). Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/education-spending-government-share/el-salvador. Publisher attribution: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Government expenditure on education, total, \% of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.},
}

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18.2% in 2008, the highest value since 1998 in this series.

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