Current education expenditure, primary (% of total expenditure in primary public institutions) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Current expenditure is expressed as a percentage of direct expenditure in public educational institutions (instructional and non-instructional) of the specified level of education. Financial aid to students and other transfers are excluded from direct expenditure. Current expenditure is consumed within the current year and would have to be renewed if needed in the following year. It includes staff compensation and current expenditure other than for staff compensation (ex. on teaching materials, ancillary services and administration).

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Bangladesh 100.00 2012
1 Kazakhstan 100.00 2019
1 Cambodia 100.00 2014
1 Kuwait 100.00 2014
1 Uzbekistan 100.00 2020
6 Azerbaijan 99.91 2019
7 Thailand 99.88 2014
8 United Arab Emirates 99.48 2013
9 Pakistan 99.37 2013
10 Oman 98.93 2020
11 Brunei 98.77 2016
12 Timor-Leste 96.98 2014
13 Malaysia 96.80 2019
14 Macao SAR, China 95.76 2002
15 India 94.53 2005
16 China 94.23 1999
17 Singapore 93.78 2019
18 Philippines 93.69 2009
19 Iran 93.64 2019
20 Hong Kong SAR, China 92.96 2012
21 Lao PDR 92.43 2014
22 Syrian Arab Republic 91.64 2015
23 Sri Lanka 90.69 2019
24 Nepal 90.61 2015
25 Yemen 89.74 2013
26 Mongolia 89.36 2017
27 Turkey 88.90 2018
28 Afghanistan 88.64 2017
29 Jordan 88.14 2019
30 Japan 87.98 2018
31 Indonesia 87.58 2015
32 Bhutan 87.40 2015
33 Armenia 86.38 2020
34 Israel 86.24 2018
35 Vietnam 82.32 2013
36 Korea 82.07 2018
37 Myanmar 79.77 2019

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Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Current expenditure, primary is calculated by dividing all current expenditure in public institutions of primary education by total expenditure (current and capital) in public institutions of primary education, and multiplying by 100. Aggregate data are based on World Bank estimates. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Median

Periodicity: Annual