Dataset · UIS

Government Funding per Primary Student

24 years, 1999–2022 · 68 countries

Government funding per primary student is what a government spends on each primary-school pupil, expressed as a share of GDP per person. That form makes rich and poor countries comparable, since the same dollar buys very different amounts of schooling.

This site holds every year from 1999 to 2022, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Open Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022 Download all 24 · CSV See it charted by country →

Government Funding per Primary Student · the file

Newest: Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022
Held: 24 years · 1,850 rows
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

24years held
1999–2022years
1,850rows across every year
68countries in the newest171 across every year
1measure
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

0124 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1999bar height: countries covered, up to 992022

Every year of Government Funding per Primary Student held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022Newest	68	+6 −11	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2021	73	+8 −8	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2020	73	+8 −13	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2019	78	+16 −9	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2018	71	+10 −14	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2017	75	+9 −16	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2016	82	+12 −17	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2015	87	+15 −19	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2014	91	+8 −14	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2013	97	+17 −10	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2012	90	+12 −21	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2011	99	+21 −15	September 10, 2026	CSV

Show all 24 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2010	93	+22 −16	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2009	87	+21 −17	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2008	83	+24 −13	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2007	72	+20 −13	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2006	65	+12 −21	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2005	74	+16 −16	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2004	74	+25 −13	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2003	62	+12 −23	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2002	73	+19 −9	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2001	63	+11 −12	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 2000	64	+16 −8	September 10, 2026	CSV
Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999	56	—	September 10, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: education-spending-per-student-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Government Funding per Primary Student: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2022	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	68
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	68
Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita)`funding_per_primary_student`Headline	The headline figure: Government funding per primary student (% of GDP per capita).	Number · up to 15 decimals	3.77Monaco34.57South Koreamiddle 17.81	68

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03171 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Government Funding per Primary Student, by continent.
	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Africa	28	26	25	23	18	16	9	7	8	7	7	5
Americas	17	17	19	19	21	19	17	17	18	20	21	20
Asia	22	20	22	19	17	16	16	14	15	14	12	10
Europe	31	27	29	29	29	29	32	32	34	30	32	30
Oceania	1	0	2	1	2	2	1	1	3	2	1	3
All	99	90	97	91	87	82	75	71	78	73	73	68

The newest 12 of 24 years.

Who joined and who left

2022
+ Andorra+ Australia+ Greece+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Oman− United Arab Emirates− United Kingdom− Croatia− India− Ireland− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− Ukraine− United States− Uzbekistan
2021
+ Egypt+ Jamaica+ Jordan+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Monaco+ Malta+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands− Dominica− Guinea− Iran− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Malaysia− Oman− Vanuatu
2020
+ Armenia+ Guinea+ Croatia+ Oman+ Panama+ Paraguay+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Uzbekistan− Albania− Andorra− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Greece− Jamaica− Jordan− Kazakhstan− Sri Lanka− Monaco− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Malta
2019
+ Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Azerbaijan+ Barbados+ Cabo Verde+ Cayman Islands+ Cyprus+ Dominica+ Egypt+ Iran+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Malta+ Mauritania+ Senegal+ Vanuatu− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Lesotho− Myanmar− Oman− Rwanda− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Uzbekistan− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
2018
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Ecuador+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Oman+ Rwanda+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad+ Uzbekistan− Afghanistan− Albania− Armenia− Cabo Verde− Cyprus− Egypt− Grenada− Iran− Mali− Malta− Mongolia− Niger− Panama− Zambia
2017
+ Albania+ Egypt+ France+ Grenada+ Kazakhstan+ Luxembourg+ Myanmar+ Portugal+ Singapore− Barbados− Brunei− Djibouti− Ecuador− Guinea− Liberia− Monaco− Maldives− Mauritania− Malawi− Oman− Paraguay− Rwanda− Seychelles− Togo− Samoa
2016
+ Barbados+ Brunei+ Djibouti+ Denmark+ Guinea+ Jordan+ Monaco+ Oman+ Paraguay+ Sierra Leone+ Ukraine+ Samoa− Albania− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bahrain− Bermuda− Dominica− Gambia− Indonesia− Kenya− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Luxembourg− Nepal− Pakistan− Portugal− Senegal− Turks and Caicos Islands− Vanuatu
2015
+ Albania+ Armenia+ Dominica+ Greece+ India+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ South Korea+ Liberia+ Mauritania+ Netherlands+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ United States+ Vanuatu+ Zambia− Aruba− Bhutan− Comoros− Denmark− Ethiopia− Ghana− Guinea− Cambodia− Kuwait− Laos− Monaco− Namibia− Puerto Rico− São Tomé and Príncipe− Eswatini− Timor-Leste− Tanzania− Uganda− Ukraine

Not in this dataset · 53 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
databrowser.uis.unesco.org
2 · Their file
Government Funding per Primary Student 2022
indicators
3 · Read by this site
September 10, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
24 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as education-spending-per-student-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/education-spending-per-student

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API, initial government funding per primary student. Years reporting fewer than 50 countries are left out.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 5, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
Credit the publisher
Say what you changed
Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Government Funding per Primary Student, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Government Funding per Primary Student, 1999–2022 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/education-spending-per-student

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Government Funding per Primary Student by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Education & Knowledge
- Governance & Institutions
Near neighbours
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
- Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024

07Questions

Government Funding per Primary Student: questions and answers

What is the Government Funding per Primary Student?

Which years of the Government Funding per Primary Student can I download?

All 24, from 1999 to 2022, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

Year

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Government Funding per Primary Student, 2022Newest

+6 −11

September 10, 2026