Public Education Spending Share Across Countries

Global Partnership for Education provides a dataset on the proportion of government recurrent spending allocated to education. The metric is expressed as a percentage of total public recurrent expenses, with definitions and methods determined by individual countries. The data originates from the World Bank platform.

Use Cases

• Benchmark a country's education spending share against the global distribution using the percentage metric.
• Analyze trends in public resource allocation to education over time using the recurrent spending percentage.
• Model correlations between education spending share and other socio-economic indicators using the country-specific data.
• Compare methodological differences in calculating education spending across countries using the self-reported definitions.

Strengths

• Data covers a global scope of countries.
• Focuses on a standardized metric: percentage of total recurrent spending.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column details, and temporal coverage are unknown.
• Data definitions are country-specific, limiting direct comparability.
• Update frequency and recency are not provided.

Provenance

Source

World Bank platform, compiled by Global Partnership for Education.

Collection Method

Aggregated from country-reported public expenditure statistics.

Geography

Global coverage of countries.