Government expenditure on education (% of government expenditure)
- World average (population-weighted)
- 13.8 %
- across 60 countries, 2025
- Latest observation
- 2025
- Source updated
- 13 Jul 2026
- CountryAtlas refreshed
- 11 Sep 2026
- Snapshot 20260911T072322Z
World map
One value per country for the selected year. Hatched = no data.
- 4.3 % – 8.7 %
- 8.7 % – 10.9 %
- 10.9 % – 12.4 %
- 12.4 % – 14.3 %
- 14.3 % – 17.4 %
- 17.4 % – 28.5 %
- No data
Trend
Aggregate across the countries of a group, year by year. Computed by CountryAtlas from country values — no published aggregate is used.
- Population-weighted mean
- Median
2 series from 1980 to 2025: Population-weighted mean, Median.
Highest and lowest
The five leaders and the five trailing countries, 2025.
Highest 5
- 28.5 %
- 24.6 %
- 22.2 %
- 20.9 %
- 20.9 %
Source: World Bank — WDI · SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS
Lowest 5
Source: World Bank — WDI · SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS
Compare countries
Pick up to five countries. Defaults to the three largest economies with data.
- Indonesia
- Singapore
- Thailand
3 series from 1980 to 2025: Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.
Definition
- Definition
- Unit
- % of government expenditure (%)
- Frequency
- Annual
- Aggregation
- none · No direction
- Valid range
- 0 – 60
Sources & provenance
Every value on this page comes from one of these series, chosen per country by priority.
- Priority #1Open at source201 countries · 4,559 obs. · → 2025 · CC BY 4.0
General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors (including health, education, social services, etc.). It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments. Source: 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
Series-level selection: for each country the whole series comes from the highest-priority source that has any non-forecast value for it. If a lower-priority source is more than three years fresher, the freshest source wins instead. Non-chosen values are kept as alternatives, never discarded.
Countries without data
158 of 218 countries have no value for 2025.
- India
- China
- United States
- Pakistan
- Nigeria
- Brazil
- Russia
- Ethiopia
- Mexico
- Japan
- Egypt
- DR Congo
- Vietnam
- Iran
- Türkiye
- Germany
- Tanzania
- United Kingdom
- France
- Italy
- Myanmar
- Colombia
- South Korea
- Sudan
- 134 more
Typical reasons: the source does not survey small territories or micro-states; the statistical office reports with a lag of one to three years; the series is only compiled for member countries of the source organisation (OECD, EU, Eurostat); or a value exists but failed validation and is quarantined rather than shown.
Downloads & API
Every observation for this indicator, all countries and years, with provenance columns.
API example
One country, full history. Replace CAN by any ISO3 code or slug.
curl -s "https://www.countryatlas.co/api/v1/series?country=CAN&indicator=education-expenditure-pct-government" | jq '.series[0] | {country: .country.name, unit, last: .stats.last, source: .provenance.source_name}'