Government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan

Government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan was 10% in 1998, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

199810%
Series high18.11987
Series low101998

Government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan, 1981 to 1998

8101214161820198119831988199319981981: 16.1 %1982: 15.7 %1983: 14.9 %1987: 18.1 %1988: 17.8 %1989: 17.6 %1993: 11.1 %1994: 11.1 %1995: 10.4 %1998: 10 %
%. 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 10 values
Period%
199810
199510.4
199411.1
199311.1
198917.6
198817.8
198718.1
198314.9
198215.7
198116.1

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.

How to cite

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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What is the government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan?

Government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan was 10% in 1998, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Where does this figure come from?

UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS). Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest government spending on education, share of government spending in Japan?

18.1% in 1987, the highest value since 1981 in this series.

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