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🎓 Education Share of Government Spending

Government education expenditure as a share of total government expenditure.

📅 2025📏 %60 entries
28.5% – 17.3%16.8% – 13.8%13.8% – 11.7%11.6% – 9.2%9.1% – 4.3%No data
1
🇰🇪Kenya
28.5%
2
🇳🇦Namibia
24.6%
3
🇧🇹Bhutan
22.2%
4
🇸🇳Senegal
20.9%
5
🇩🇴Dominican Republic
20.9%
6
🇸🇱Sierra Leone
20.5%
7
🇸🇿Eswatini
19.2%
8
🇿🇦South Africa
19.1%
9
🇧🇯Benin
18.0%
10
🇿🇼Zimbabwe
17.9%
11
🇹🇳Tunisia
17.3%
12
🇬🇹Guatemala
17.3%
13
🇹🇻Tuvalu
16.8%
14
🇵🇷Puerto Rico
16.0%
15
🇸🇻El Salvador
15.9%
16
🇩🇿Algeria
15.5%
17
🇪🇨Ecuador
15.5%
18
🇵🇭Philippines
15.2%
19
🇰🇵North Korea
14.6%
20
🇿🇲Zambia
14.5%
21
🇬🇲Gambia
14.2%
22
🇧🇧Barbados
14.2%
23
🇷🇼Rwanda
13.9%
24
🇰🇼Kuwait
13.8%
25
🇫🇯Fiji
13.8%
26
🇻🇬British Virgin Islands
13.6%
27
🇭🇹Haiti
13.2%
28
🇱🇨Saint Lucia
12.7%
29
🇹🇭Thailand
12.6%
30
🇹🇹Trinidad and Tobago
12.6%
31
🇦🇩Andorra
12.1%
32
🇸🇬Singapore
12.0%
33
🇦🇿Azerbaijan
11.9%
34
🇧🇩Bangladesh
11.9%
35
🇼🇸Samoa
11.7%
36
🇵🇾Paraguay
11.7%
37
🇰🇭Cambodia
11.6%
38
🇰🇲Comoros
11.5%
39
🇬🇩Grenada
11.4%
40
🇰🇳Saint Kitts and Nevis
11.0%
41
🇳🇵Nepal
10.8%
42
🇸🇨Seychelles
10.7%
43
🇧🇸Bahamas
10.6%
44
🇮🇩Indonesia
10.6%
45
🇧🇮Burundi
10.3%
46
🇹🇨Turks and Caicos Islands
9.8%
47
🇲🇻Maldives
9.6%
48
🇬🇳Guinea
9.2%
49
🇵🇼Palau
9.1%
50
🇦🇲Armenia
8.7%

Highlights

As of 2025, Kenya ranks first with 28.5%, followed by Namibia (24.6%) and Bhutan (22.2%).

Across 60 countries and territories, values run from 28.5% (Kenya) to 4.3% (Timor-Leste), with a median of 12.4%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 8 from Africa, 1 from the Americas and 1 from Asia.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure), 2025. Unit: %.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 16, 2026