Expenditure on primary education

Expenditure on primary education is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on education. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
186
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO

    Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Myanmar201936.33percent
Andorra201821.42percent
Colombia201832.71percent
Costa Rica201828.67percent
Côte d'Ivoire201847.29percent
El Salvador201846.16percent
Guatemala201855.60percent
Guinea201861.65percent
Hong Kong201822.08percent
Iran, Islamic Republic of201833.07percent

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