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Sierra Leone: Initial government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP

4.91percent · 2022+205.3% since 2011

Initial government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP (%). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator XGDP.FSGOV.FFNTR. Annual figures for Sierra Leone from 2000 to 2022.

20002022

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
20224.908
20215.593
20205.347
20194.652
20184.468
20173.015
20161.848
20141.738
20131.561
20121.778
20111.607
20101.541
20091.723
20081.424
20071.49
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). Initial government expenditure on education as a percentage of GDP. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-xgdp-fsgov-ffntr (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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