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Sierra Leone: Government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP

2.62percent · 2023+68.2% since 2013

Government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator XGDP.FSGOV. Annual figures for Sierra Leone from 2000 to 2023.

20002023

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20232.625
20224.908
20215.593
20205.347
20194.652
20184.468
20173.015
20161.848
20153.218
20141.738
20131.561
20121.778
20111.615
20101.566
20091.724
20081.454
20071.52
20051.814UIS_EST
20042.012UIS_EST
20032.109UIS_EST
20022.298UIS_EST
20012.226UIS_EST
20004.949UIS_EST

Source

Published by UIS, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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UIS (2026). Government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-xgdp-fsgov (accessed 2026-11-12). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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