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Uruguay: Expenditure on tertiary education

24.80percent · 2017+27.3% since 1996

Expenditure on tertiary education is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on education. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments. Annual figures for Uruguay from 1979 to 2017.

19792017

Every year

YearValue (percent)Note
201724.796
201625.114
201126.833
200622.002
200521.833
200424.298
200325.94
200221.474
200121.066
200020.478
199619.475
199525.968
199426.668
199225.824
199125.921
198625.659
198523.205
198421.529
198017.789
197920.824

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Published by World Bank, produced by UNESCO. Licence: CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-11-07.

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World Bank (2026). Expenditure on tertiary education. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-expenditure-on-tertiary-education (accessed 2026-11-08). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

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