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World Education spending (% of GDP) Ranking

Compare education spending (% of gdp) by country, including the top and bottom results, Japan's position and country details.

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Compare education spending (% of gdp) across the world.

Compare education spending (% of gdp) by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details.

Japan3.3%
Fiji: 4.2%Tanzania: 3.2%Western Sahara: No dataCanada: 4.8%United States: 5.4%Kazakhstan: 4.9%Uzbekistan: 5.5%Papua New Guinea: 0.8%Indonesia: 1.3%Argentina: 5%Chile: 4.9%Congo, Dem. Rep.: 2.8%Somalia, Fed. Rep.: 0%Kenya: 4%Sudan: No dataChad: 3.2%Haiti: 1%Dominican Republic: 3.8%Russian Federation: 4.2%Bahamas, The: 2.7%Falkland Islands: No dataNorway: 5.4%Greenland: No dataFr. S. Antarctic Lands: No dataTimor-Leste: 5.2%South Africa: 6%Lesotho: 6.6%Mexico: 4.1%Uruguay: 4.8%Brazil: 5.6%Bolivia: 7.5%Peru: 4.4%Colombia: 5.3%Panama: 2.5%Costa Rica: 5.3%Nicaragua: 2.9%Honduras: 4.5%El Salvador: 3.3%Guatemala: 3.1%Belize: 4.6%Venezuela, RB: No dataGuyana: 4.5%Suriname: 2.9%France: 5.3%Ecuador: 3.7%Puerto Rico (US): 4.3%Jamaica: 5.5%Cuba: 8.4%Zimbabwe: 0.4%Botswana: 8.1%Namibia: 9.1%Senegal: 6.2%Mali: 4.2%Mauritania: 7.6%Benin: 3.2%Niger: 4.1%Nigeria: 0.3%Cameroon: 2.8%Togo: 4.1%Ghana: 2.9%Cote d'Ivoire: 3.6%Guinea: 1.7%Guinea-Bissau: 2%Liberia: 2.3%Sierra Leone: 2.6%Burkina Faso: 5.3%Central African Republic: 1.8%Congo, Rep.: 3.3%Gabon: 2.3%Equatorial Guinea: No dataZambia: 4.1%Malawi: 2.7%Mozambique: 6%Eswatini: 6%Angola: 2.5%Burundi: 4.5%Israel: 5.9%Lebanon: 1.2%Madagascar: 3%West Bank and Gaza: 5.4%Gambia, The: 2.8%Tunisia: 6.7%Algeria: 9%Jordan: 3.2%United Arab Emirates: 3.9%Qatar: 3.2%Kuwait: 6.4%Iraq: No dataOman: 4.4%Vanuatu: 7.6%Cambodia: 2.2%Thailand: 2.5%Lao PDR: 1.2%Myanmar: 2%Viet Nam: 2.9%Korea, Dem. People's Rep.: No dataKorea, Rep.: 5.4%Mongolia: 5.2%India: 4.1%Bangladesh: 2%Bhutan: 5.8%Nepal: 3.7%Pakistan: 1.9%Afghanistan: 4.3%Tajikistan: 5.4%Kyrgyz Republic: 6.8%Turkmenistan: 4.3%Iran, Islamic Rep.: 2.8%Syrian Arab Republic: No dataArmenia: 2.4%Sweden: 7.3%Belarus: 5%Ukraine: 5.1%Poland: 4.3%Austria: 5.3%Hungary: 3.8%Moldova: 6.6%Romania: 3.3%Lithuania: 4.3%Latvia: 4.3%Estonia: 5.2%Germany: 5.2%Bulgaria: 4.5%Greece: 3.4%Turkiye: 3.1%Albania: 3.1%Croatia: 4.1%Switzerland: 4.9%Luxembourg: 3.7%Belgium: 6.3%Netherlands: 5.2%Portugal: 4.6%Spain: 4.6%Ireland: 2.9%New Caledonia: No dataSolomon Islands: 8.3%New Zealand: 5.2%Australia: 5.1%Sri Lanka: 1.8%China: 3.9%Taiwan: No dataItaly: 4.1%Denmark: 6.4%United Kingdom: 5.9%Iceland: 7.3%Azerbaijan: 3.7%Georgia: 4%Philippines: 4%Malaysia: 3.5%Brunei Darussalam: 4.4%Slovenia: 5.3%Finland: 6.4%Slovak Republic: 4.7%Czechia: 4.3%Eritrea: No dataJapan: 3.3%Paraguay: 3.5%Yemen, Rep.: No dataSaudi Arabia: 4.5%Antarctica: No dataN. Cyprus: No dataCyprus: 4.7%Morocco: 6%Egypt, Arab Rep.: No dataLibya: No dataEthiopia: 2.3%Djibouti: 3.8%Somaliland: No dataUganda: 2.6%Rwanda: 4.6%Bosnia and Herzegovina: 3.2%North Macedonia: No dataSerbia: 3.4%Montenegro: No dataKosovo: No dataTrinidad and Tobago: 3.2%South Sudan: 1.6%
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02 / ABOUT THIS DATA

How to read the World Education spending (% of GDP) Ranking

Compare education spending (% of gdp) by country on a ten-level world heat map. Explore the top and bottom five, the full ranking and country details. This page orders 192 countries and territories by value and divides the ranking into ten map colors.

Top 3
#1 Kiribati (16.4%), #2 Tuvalu (12.8%), #3 Micronesia, Fed. Sts. (11.6%)
Japan’s position
World #130 (3.3%)
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Education spending (% of GDP)Full ranking192 countries

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