Thailand - Expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education) in Thailand was 15.55 as of 2013. Its highest value over the past 42 years was 26.36 in 1996, while its lowest value was 12.14 in 1975.

Definition: Expenditure on tertiary education is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on education. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

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

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Year Value
1971 15.72
1972 15.62
1973 13.14
1974 12.72
1975 12.14
1976 13.22
1977 12.77
1979 12.21
1980 13.78
1981 21.98
1982 14.69
1983 16.52
1984 17.04
1986 12.37
1987 13.06
1988 12.76
1989 13.37
1991 18.32
1992 20.19
1994 20.06
1995 21.52
1996 26.36
1997 21.32
1998 24.12
2000 20.30
2001 21.69
2004 20.61
2005 21.69
2006 23.74
2008 21.18
2009 19.32
2010 16.51
2011 14.92
2012 14.42
2013 15.55

Development Relevance: The share of government expenditure for a specific education level allows an assessment of the priority a government assigns to a level of education relative to other levels. Enrolment and the relative costs per student between different levels of education should be also taken into account.

Limitations and Exceptions: Data disaggregated by level of education are estimates in some instances. It is often difficult to separate lower from upper secondary education expenditure, or pre-primary from primary.

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: The share of expenditure on tertiary education to total government expenditure on education is calculated by dividing government expenditure on tertiary education by total government expenditure on education (all levels combined), 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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs