OECD members - Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education) in OECD members was 35.12 as of 2016. Its highest value over the past 37 years was 41.15 in 1996, while its lowest value was 29.17 in 1980.

Definition: Expenditure on secondary 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
1979 33.02
1980 29.17
1981 29.80
1988 37.09
1993 39.92
1994 39.25
1995 41.10
1996 41.15
1998 38.41
1999 39.44
2000 39.96
2001 40.05
2002 39.46
2003 40.97
2004 38.87
2005 39.45
2006 39.60
2007 38.94
2008 40.64
2009 40.24
2010 37.74
2011 36.43
2012 37.33
2013 35.19
2014 37.46
2015 35.41
2016 35.12

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 secondary education to total government expenditure on education is calculated by dividing government expenditure on secondary 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