Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): To measure the emphasis of government spending on education.

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): Government expenditure on education by level of education, conversion factors to PPP$.

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): By level of education.

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): Total general (local, regional and central) government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers), in millions PPP$ (at purchasing power parity). It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government.

Expenditure on education refers to expenditure on core educational goods and services, such as teaching staff, school buildings, or schoolbooks and teaching materials, and peripheral educational goods and services such as ancillary services, general administration and other activities.

Expenditure on education: Expenditure on education refers to expenditure on core educational goods and services, such as teaching staff, school buildings, or school books and teaching materials, and peripheral educational goods and services such as ancillary services, general administration and other activities.

Expenditure on education can come from public source (i.e. all government ministries and agencies financing or supporting education programmes in the country), international source, and private source (e.g. households).

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): Total government expenditure for a given level of education (e.g. primary, secondary, tertiary, or all levels combined) in national currency is converted to PPP$, and where it is expressed in constant value, uses a GDP deflator to account for inflation. The constant prices base year is normally three years before the year of the data release. For example, in the September 2021 data release, constant PPP$ values are expressed in 2018 prices.

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): The indicator should be produced based on consistent and actual data on total government expenditures on education and data on conversion factors to PPP$. Government expenditure on education should include those incurred by all concerned ministries and levels of administration. The fact that the fiscal year and educational year budget periods may be different should also be taken into consideration.

The UIS maintains a global database used to produce this indicator and defines the protocols and standards for data reporting by countries.

Interpretations

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): The extent of the indicator value denotes the government policy priority for education. The pattern of the indicator over time should reflect any substantial variations in education budgets.

When disaggregated by level of education, this indicator can informs about the emphasis of government policy priority across levels of education.

Limitations

Government expenditure on education in PPP$ (millions): As an absolute measure, the indicator essentially informs about the volume of expenditure that the government allots to education. Relating this amount, for example, to total government expenditure for all sectors including education, could be more insightful about the government policy priority for education (over other public sectors).

In some instances data on total government expenditure on education refers only to the Ministry of Education, excluding other ministries which may also spend a sizeable part of their budget on educational services.