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Education spending share of GDP by country — world rankings
Ranking 165 countries with data.
Education spending share of GDP
| Rank | Country | Value |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Namibia | 9.1% (2024) |
| 2 | Algeria | 9.0% (2024) |
| 3 | Cuba | 8.4% (2022) |
| 4 | Solomon Is. | 8.3% (2023) |
| 5 | Botswana | 8.1% (2020) |
| 6 | Vanuatu | 7.6% (2024) |
| 7 | Mauritania | 7.6% (2024) |
| 8 | Bolivia | 7.5% (2024) |
| 9 | Sweden | 7.3% (2022) |
| 10 | Iceland | 7.3% (2022) |
| 11 | Venezuela | 6.9% (2009) |
| 12 | Kyrgyzstan | 6.8% (2023) |
| 13 | Tunisia | 6.7% (2023) |
| 14 | Lesotho | 6.6% (2024) |
| 15 | Moldova | 6.6% (2023) |
| 16 | Kuwait | 6.4% (2024) |
| 17 | Finland | 6.4% (2022) |
| 18 | Denmark | 6.4% (2022) |
| 19 | Belgium | 6.3% (2022) |
| 20 | Senegal | 6.2% (2023) |
| 21 | eSwatini | 6.0% (2024) |
| 22 | South Africa | 6.0% (2024) |
| 23 | Morocco | 6.0% (2023) |
| 24 | Mozambique | 6.0% (2022) |
| 25 | Israel | 5.9% (2022) |
| 26 | United Kingdom | 5.9% (2021) |
| 27 | Bhutan | 5.8% (2023) |
| 28 | Brazil | 5.6% (2022) |
| 29 | Jamaica | 5.5% (2024) |
| 30 | Uzbekistan | 5.5% (2023) |
| 31 | Tajikistan | 5.4% (2023) |
| 32 | Palestine | 5.4% (2021) |
| 33 | Norway | 5.4% (2022) |
| 34 | United States | 5.4% (2021) |
| 35 | South Korea | 5.4% (2022) |
| 36 | Burkina Faso | 5.3% (2023) |
| 37 | France | 5.3% (2022) |
| 38 | Costa Rica | 5.3% (2023) |
| 39 | Slovenia | 5.3% (2022) |
| 40 | Austria | 5.3% (2022) |
| 41 | Colombia | 5.3% (2020) |
| 42 | Timor-Leste | 5.2% (2023) |
| 43 | Germany | 5.2% (2022) |
| 44 | New Zealand | 5.2% (2023) |
| 45 | Mongolia | 5.2% (2024) |
| 46 | Estonia | 5.2% (2022) |
| 47 | Netherlands | 5.2% (2022) |
| 48 | Yemen | 5.2% (2008) |
| 49 | Ukraine | 5.1% (2021) |
| 50 | Syria | 5.1% (2009) |
| 51 | Australia | 5.1% (2022) |
| 52 | Belarus | 5.0% (2024) |
| 53 | Argentina | 5.0% (2023) |
| 54 | Chile | 4.9% (2022) |
| 55 | Kazakhstan | 4.9% (2023) |
| 56 | Switzerland | 4.9% (2022) |
| 57 | Canada | 4.8% (2022) |
| 58 | Uruguay | 4.8% (2023) |
| 59 | Cyprus | 4.7% (2022) |
| 60 | Slovakia | 4.7% (2022) |
| 61 | Belize | 4.6% (2024) |
| 62 | Rwanda | 4.6% (2024) |
| 63 | Spain | 4.6% (2022) |
| 64 | Portugal | 4.6% (2022) |
| 65 | Honduras | 4.5% (2023) |
| 66 | Burundi | 4.5% (2025) |
| 67 | Bulgaria | 4.5% (2022) |
| 68 | Saudi Arabia | 4.5% (2023) |
| 69 | Guyana | 4.5% (2018) |
| 70 | Brunei | 4.4% (2016) |
| 71 | Oman | 4.4% (2022) |
| 72 | Peru | 4.4% (2024) |
| 73 | Afghanistan | 4.3% (2017) |
| 74 | Latvia | 4.3% (2022) |
| 75 | Poland | 4.3% (2022) |
| 76 | Czechia | 4.3% (2022) |
| 77 | Turkmenistan | 4.3% (2024) |
| 78 | Puerto Rico | 4.3% (2024) |
| 79 | Lithuania | 4.3% (2022) |
| 80 | Fiji | 4.2% (2023) |
| 81 | Mali | 4.2% (2023) |
| 82 | Russia | 4.2% (2023) |
| 83 | Togo | 4.1% (2023) |
| 84 | India | 4.1% (2022) |
| 85 | Croatia | 4.1% (2021) |
| 86 | Niger | 4.1% (2023) |
| 87 | Zambia | 4.1% (2023) |
| 88 | Italy | 4.1% (2022) |
| 89 | Mexico | 4.1% (2022) |
| 90 | Kenya | 4.0% (2024) |
| 91 | Georgia | 4.0% (2024) |
| 92 | Philippines | 4.0% (2025) |
| 93 | China | 3.9% (2023) |
| 94 | United Arab Emirates | 3.9% (2021) |
| 95 | Hungary | 3.8% (2022) |
| 96 | Egypt | 3.8% (2008) |
| 97 | Dominican Rep. | 3.8% (2023) |
| 98 | Djibouti | 3.8% (2018) |
| 99 | Luxembourg | 3.7% (2022) |
| 100 | Ecuador | 3.7% (2024) |
| 101 | Nepal | 3.7% (2024) |
| 102 | Azerbaijan | 3.7% (2023) |
| 103 | Côte d'Ivoire | 3.6% (2024) |
| 104 | Iraq | 3.6% (1989) |
| 105 | Paraguay | 3.5% (2024) |
| 106 | Malaysia | 3.5% (2023) |
| 107 | Serbia | 3.4% (2023) |
| 108 | Greece | 3.4% (2022) |
| 109 | Congo | 3.3% (2023) |
| 110 | Japan | 3.3% (2021) |
| 111 | El Salvador | 3.3% (2024) |
| 112 | Macedonia | 3.3% (2002) |
| 113 | Romania | 3.3% (2022) |
| 114 | Bosnia and Herz. | 3.2% (2023) |
| 115 | Qatar | 3.2% (2020) |
| 116 | Trinidad and Tobago | 3.2% (2023) |
| 117 | Jordan | 3.2% (2024) |
| 118 | Benin | 3.2% (2023) |
| 119 | Chad | 3.2% (2023) |
| 120 | Tanzania | 3.2% (2024) |
| 121 | Turkey | 3.1% (2022) |
| 122 | Albania | 3.1% (2023) |
| 123 | Guatemala | 3.1% (2024) |
| 124 | Madagascar | 3.0% (2023) |
| 125 | Ghana | 2.9% (2022) |
| 126 | Ireland | 2.9% (2021) |
| 127 | Vietnam | 2.9% (2022) |
| 128 | Nicaragua | 2.9% (2023) |
| 129 | Suriname | 2.9% (2023) |
| 130 | Dem. Rep. Congo | 2.8% (2022) |
| 131 | Cameroon | 2.8% (2023) |
| 132 | Iran | 2.8% (2023) |
| 133 | Gambia | 2.8% (2023) |
| 134 | Malawi | 2.7% (2022) |
| 135 | Bahamas | 2.7% (2023) |
| 136 | Sierra Leone | 2.6% (2023) |
| 137 | Uganda | 2.6% (2022) |
| 138 | Thailand | 2.5% (2023) |
| 139 | Angola | 2.5% (2023) |
| 140 | Panama | 2.5% (2023) |
| 141 | Armenia | 2.4% (2023) |
| 142 | Gabon | 2.3% (2023) |
| 143 | Ethiopia | 2.3% (2024) |
| 144 | Liberia | 2.3% (2023) |
| 145 | Libya | 2.3% (1999) |
| 146 | Eq. Guinea | 2.2% (1998) |
| 147 | Cambodia | 2.2% (2023) |
| 148 | Eritrea | 2.1% (2006) |
| 149 | Bangladesh | 2.0% (2024) |
| 150 | Sudan | 2.0% (2009) |
| 151 | Guinea-Bissau | 2.0% (2013) |
| 152 | Myanmar | 2.0% (2019) |
| 153 | Pakistan | 1.9% (2023) |
| 154 | Central African Rep. | 1.8% (2023) |
| 155 | Sri Lanka | 1.8% (2023) |
| 156 | Guinea | 1.7% (2023) |
| 157 | S. Sudan | 1.6% (2016) |
| 158 | Indonesia | 1.3% (2023) |
| 159 | Laos | 1.2% (2023) |
| 160 | Lebanon | 1.2% (2024) |
| 161 | Haiti | 1.0% (2023) |
| 162 | Papua New Guinea | 0.8% (2023) |
| 163 | Zimbabwe | 0.4% (2023) |
| 164 | Nigeria | 0.3% (2023) |
| 165 | Somalia | 0.0% (2023) |
Ordered by value, highest first (ties break by country slug). Countries without data for this metric are not listed — they occupy no rank.
Surface area is computed from Natural Earth 1:110m boundaries with an equal-area spherical formula — not the World Bank's land-area figure; population density is our own derived metric (latest population ÷ that area).
The unweighted median across the 165 countries with data is 4.1% — shown for context, not a world average.
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Indicators: World Bank Open Data, 43 indicators — CC BY 4.0 © World Bank — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/; Human Development Index — CC BY 3.0 IGO © United Nations Development Programme — https://hdr.undp.org/terms-use
Boundaries: Natural Earth 1:110m (public domain); surface areas are computed with an equal-area spherical formula (Chamberlin–Duquette).
Reference facts (capital, languages, currencies, subregion): mledoze/countries (ODbL).