This list shows the spending on education of various countries as a percentage of total government expenditure. It is based on data from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics.[1]
The UNESCO dataset does not specify whether education capital expenditures are included, or whether only recurrent expenditures were considered.
| Country | Year | |
|---|---|---|
 Grenada | 42.79 | 2016 |
 Zimbabwe | 30.01 | 2014 |
 Ethiopia | 27.10 | 2015 |
| 24.95 | 2014 | |
 Bhutan | 24.04 | 2017 |
 Guatemala | 23.09 | 2017 |
 Tunisia | 22.90 | 2015 |
| 22.31 | 2015 | |
 Honduras | 22.02 | 2017 |
 Saint Lucia | 21.98 | 2016 |
 Belize | 21.68 | 2017 |
 Senegal | 21.56 | 2017 |
 Chile | 21.16 | 2016 |
 Malaysia | 21.06 | 2017 |
 Turkmenistan | 20.80 | 2012 |
 Indonesia | 20.50 | 2015 |
 Burundi | 20.40 | 2017 |
 Ghana | 20.10 | 2017 |
| 20.04 | 2017 | |
 Singapore | 19.96 | 2013 |
 Uzbekistan | 19.96 | 2017 |
 Mauritius | 19.93 | 2017 |
 Sierra Leone | 19.92 | 2017 |
 Thailand | 19.13 | 2013 |
 Mexico | 19.02 | 2015 |
| 18.98 | 2017 | |
 Mozambique | 18.98 | 2013 |
 Madagascar | 18.97 | 2014 |
 Benin | 18.79 | 2016 |
 South Africa | 18.73 | 2017 |
 Kyrgyzstan | 18.64 | 2017 |
 Cote d'Ivoire | 18.62 | 2017 |
 Viet Nam | 18.52 | 2013 |
 Jamaica | 18.40 | 2017 |
 Sao Tome and Principe | 18.40 | 2017 |
| 18.33 | 2017 | |
 Guyana | 18.28 | 2017 |
 Peru | 18.24 | 2017 |
 Iceland | 18.16 | 2015 |
 Burkina Faso | 18.03 | 2015 |
 Hong Kong | 17.84 | 2017 |
 Kenya | 17.58 | 2017 |
| 17.30 | 2014 | |
| 16.84 | 2014 | |
 New Zealand | 16.57 | 2016 |
 Tajikistan | 16.44 | 2015 |
| 16.38 | 2017 | |
 Cyprus | 16.28 | 2015 |
 Brazil | 16.25 | 2015 |
 Guinea-Bissau | 16.19 | 2013 |
 Togo | 15.99 | 2016 |
 Nepal | 15.75 | 2017 |
 Norway | 15.73 | 2015 |
 Afghanistan | 15.66 | 2017 |
 El Salvador | 15.63 | 2017 |
 Switzerland | 15.53 | 2016 |
 Sweden | 15.50 | 2015 |
 Cameroon | 15.47 | 2017 |
 Oman | 15.34 | 2017 |
 Comoros | 15.27 | 2015 |
 Colombia | 15.17 | 2017 |
 Israel | 15.04 | 2015 |
 Sri Lanka | 14.50 | 2017 |
 Malawi | 14.34 | 2017 |
 Fiji | 14.30 | 2013 |
 Latvia | 14.13 | 2015 |
 Australia | 14.08 | 2015 |
 India | 14.05 | 2013 |
 United Kingdom | 13.92 | 2016 |
 Mali | 13.90 | 2016 |
| 13.88 | 2015 | |
 Pakistan | 13.85 | 2017 |
 Denmark | 13.83 | 2014 |
 Lesotho | 13.80 | 2018 |
 Albania | 13.60 | 2016 |
| 13.59 | 2014 | |
 Mongolia | 13.49 | 2017 |
 Argentina | 13.38 | 2016 |
 Guinea | 13.38 | 2017 |
 Niger | 13.25 | 2017 |
 Malta | 13.15 | 2015 |
| 13.13 | 2016 | |
 Ireland | 13.03 | 2015 |
 Estonia | 12.97 | 2015 |
 Georgia | 12.95 | 2017 |
 Barbados | 12.88 | 2017 |
 Turkey | 12.84 | 2015 |
 Ecuador | 12.60 | 2015 |
 Jordan | 12.53 | 2017 |
 Chad | 12.46 | 2013 |
 Finland | 12.41 | 2015 |
| 12.35 | 2016 | |
 Lithuania | 12.29 | 2015 |
 Belarus | 12.28 | 2017 |
 Netherlands | 12.25 | 2015 |
 Lao People's Democratic Republic | 12.19 | 2014 |
 Belgium | 12.17 | 2015 |
 Uganda | 12.01 | 2017 |
 Vanuatu | 11.78 | 2017 |
 Seychelles | 11.72 | 2016 |
| 11.71 | 2017 | |
 Poland | 11.58 | 2015 |
 Bulgaria | 11.44 | 2013 |
 Brunei Darussalam | 11.44 | 2016 |
 Bangladesh | 11.42 | 2016 |
 Kazakhstan | 11.42 | 2017 |
 Maldives | 11.29 | 2016 |
 Gabon | 11.23 | 2014 |
 Slovenia | 11.22 | 2015 |
 Rwanda | 11.08 | 2017 |
 Germany | 10.99 | 2015 |
 Russian Federation | 10.87 | 2015 |
 Austria | 10.69 | 2015 |
 Dominica | 10.52 | 2015 |
 Samoa | 10.48 | 2016 |
 Gambia | 10.36 | 2016 |
 Slovakia | 10.28 | 2015 |
 Armenia | 10.20 | 2016 |
 Portugal | 10.15 | 2015 |
 Spain | 9.77 | 2015 |
 France | 9.62 | 2015 |
 Croatia | 9.49 | 2013 |
 Luxembourg | 9.43 | 2015 |
 Myanmar | 9.41 | 2018 |
 Mauritania | 9.33 | 2016 |
 Hungary | 9.14 | 2015 |
 Japan | 9.13 | 2016 |
 Romania | 9.08 | 2015 |
 Qatar | 8.88 | 2017 |
| 8.79 | 2014 | |
| 8.69 | 2016 | |
| 8.64 | 2015 | |
 Lebanon | 8.58 | 2013 |
 Azerbaijan | 8.20 | 2016 |
 Italy | 8.11 | 2015 |
 Congo | 7.95 | 2015 |
| 7.64 | 2014 | |
 Bahrain | 7.18 | 2017 |
| 7.06 | 2017 | |
| 6.77 | 2014 | |
| 1.07 | 2017 | |