This list shows the spending on education of various countries as a percentage of total government spending. It is based on data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics. The UNESCO dataset does not specify whether education capital expenditures are included, or whether only recurrent expenditures were considered.

List Country Year 42.79 2016 30.01 2014 27.10 2015 24.95 2014 24.04 2017 23.09 2017 22.90 2015 22.31 2015 22.02 2017 21.98 2016 21.68 2017 21.56 2017 21.16 2016 21.06 2017 20.80 2012 20.50 2015 20.40 2017 20.10 2017 20.04 2017 19.96 2013 19.96 2017 19.93 2017 19.92 2017 19.13 2013 19.02 2015 18.98 2017 18.98 2013 18.97 2014 18.79 2016 18.73 2017 18.64 2017 18.62 2017 18.52 2013 18.40 2017 18.40 2017 18.33 2017 18.28 2017 18.24 2017 18.16 2015 18.03 2015 17.84 2017 17.58 2017 17.30 2014 16.84 2014 16.57 2016 16.44 2015 16.38 2017 16.28 2015 16.25 2015 16.19 2013 15.99 2016 15.75 2017 15.73 2015 15.66 2017 15.63 2017 15.53 2016 15.50 2015 15.47 2017 15.34 2017 15.27 2015 15.17 2017 15.04 2015 14.50 2017 14.34 2017 14.30 2013 14.13 2015 14.08 2015 14.05 2013 13.92 2016 13.90 2016 13.88 2015 13.85 2017 13.83 2014 13.80 2018 13.60 2016 13.59 2014 13.49 2017 13.38 2016 13.38 2017 13.25 2017 13.15 2015 13.13 2016 13.03 2015 12.97 2015 12.95 2017 12.88 2017 12.84 2015 12.60 2015 12.53 2017 12.46 2013 12.41 2015 12.35 2016 12.29 2015 12.28 2017 12.25 2015 12.19 2014 12.17 2015 12.01 2017 11.78 2017 11.72 2016 11.71 2017 11.58 2015 11.44 2013 11.44 2016 11.42 2016 11.42 2017 11.29 2016 11.23 2014 11.22 2015 11.08 2017 10.99 2015 10.87 2015 10.69 2015 10.52 2015 10.48 2016 10.36 2016 10.28 2015 10.20 2016 10.15 2015 9.77 2015 9.62 2015 9.49 2013 9.43 2015 9.41 2018 9.33 2016 9.14 2015 9.13 2016 9.08 2015 8.88 2017 8.79 2014 8.69 2016 8.64 2015 8.58 2013 8.20 2016 8.11 2015 7.95 2015 7.64 2014 7.18 2017 7.06 2017 6.77 2014 1.07 2017

See also List of countries by spending on education as percentage of GDP

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