Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP)
General government expenditure on education - current, capital and transfers - expressed as a percentage of GDP, for the 8-country panel (USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Japan, China, India). General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments, and the figure includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. The World Bank publishes the indicator in the World Development Indicators from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Data API (UIS date published 2026-02, accessed 2026-03-19; WDI vintage last updated 2026-07-13). It is the input-side companion of the connector's school-enrollment datasets: expenditure is what goes in, enrollment is what comes out. The UK led the panel in 2021 (5.91% of GDP) and Japan was the lowest (3.34%). UNESCO-sourced series carry a multi-year reporting lag, so the latest years are null for most panel members - kept verbatim, never interpolated. Units: % of GDP.
- Source
- World Bank
- Rows
- 208
- Columns
- 4
- Source cadence
- Yearly
- Last refreshed
- Sep 25, 2026
- Theme
- education
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| country_code | string | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 country code (World Bank API field countryiso3code). |
| country_name | string | Country name as published by the World Bank API. |
| year | integer | Calendar year of the observation (World Bank API field date). |
| value | float | Indicator value for the country and year, as defined by the World Bank indicator (see the dataset description). Missing values are null. (unit: % of GDP) |
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@misc{dz_world_bank_government_education_expendit_bb739598,
title = {{Government expenditure on education, total (\% of GDP)}},
author = {{World Bank}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
howpublished = {\url{https://datazimuts.com/en/datasets/world_bank/government_education_expenditure_gdp?snapshot=20260925T022313Z-bb7395987275}},
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