Variable: Government expenditure on education, total (% of GDP)

QoG Code: (wdi_expedu)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of GDP. It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Note: The value for Tuvalu in 1997 has been recoded to missing due to an extreme and very unlikely value.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2024-11-20
Last updated by source: 2024-10-28


Categories:

Education


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2025 Basic Time-series - 2025 OECD Cross-section - 2025 OECD Time-series - 2025 Standard Cross-section - 2025 Standard Time-series - 2025 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 174
Basic time-series: 190
Standard cross-section: 174
Standard time-series: 190
OECD cross-section: 31
OECD time-series: 32

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1970-2023
Basic time-series: 1970-2023
OECD time-series: 1970-2023

This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1970 to the year 2022