# EU countries by government spending on education, share of government spending, 2022

All 25 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2022, so the places are comparable. 2 EU countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `education_expenditure_govt_share`
- Unit: %
- 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.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, Government expenditure on education, total, % of government expenditure (SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/unesco-institute-for-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/education-spending-government-share/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Sweden | 15.3 |
| 2 | Denmark | 14.2 |
| 3 | Estonia | 13 |
| 4 | Malta | 12.5 |
| 5 | Cyprus | 12.5 |
| 6 | Finland | 12.1 |
| 7 | Belgium | 12 |
| 8 | Bulgaria | 12 |
| 9 | Netherlands | 12 |
| 10 | Lithuania | 11.7 |
| 11 | Slovenia | 11.1 |
| 12 | Slovakia | 10.8 |
| 13 | Germany | 10.7 |
| 14 | Portugal | 10.4 |
| 15 | Czechia | 10 |
| 16 | Poland | 10 |
| 17 | Austria | 10 |
| 18 | Latvia | 9.9 |
| 19 | Spain | 9.9 |
| 20 | France | 9.1 |
| 21 | Romania | 8.8 |
| 22 | Luxembourg | 8.5 |
| 23 | Hungary | 7.8 |
| 24 | Italy | 7.4 |
| 25 | Greece | 6.4 |