Government expenditure on education, total

General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
203
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

    Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://databrowser.uis.unesco.org/resources, note: The data are obtained through the UIS API. Detailed documentation is available at: https://api.uis.unesco.org/api/public/documentation/, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), date accessed: 2026-03-19, date published: 2026-02

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Burundi20254.50percent
Philippines20253.97percent
Algeria20248.98percent
Bangladesh20242.03percent
Barbados20243.56percent
Belarus20245.05percent
Belize20244.62percent
Bolivia, Plurinational State of20247.54percent
Curaçao20245.44percent
Côte d'Ivoire20243.61percent

Open in the terminal to chart this series, compare it against other publishers, or export it with its provenance.

Government expenditure on education, total · World Bank · Interva