Skip Navigation
Digest of Education Statistics
2004 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Full Issue of the Digest


Table 414. Public and private education expenditures per student, by level of education and country: 1999, 2000, and 2001
[In constant 2001 dollars]

________________________________________________________________________________________________________
                    |         Elementary       |           Secondary      |         Higher education
Country             |__________________________|__________________________|_____________________________
                    |     1999|     2000| 2001 |     1999|     2000| 2001 |      1999|      2000|  2001
____________________|_________|_________|______|_________|_________|______|__________|__________|_______
1                   |        2|        3|     4|        5|        6|     7|         8|         9|     10
____________________|_________|_________|______|_________|_________|______|__________|__________|_______
Australia ..........|   $5,165|   $5,108|$5,052|   $7,283|   $7,090|$7,239|   $12,466|   $13,220|$12,688
Austria ............|    6,983|    6,747| 6,571|    9,041|    8,822| 8,562|    12,833|    11,160| 11,274
Belgium ............|    4,626|    4,433| 5,321|    7,218|    7,085| 7,912|    10,690|    11,077| 11,589
Canada .............|     --- |     --- |  --- |\1\ 6,359|\1\ 6,116|  --- |    16,172|    15,409|   ---
Czech Republic .....|    1,881|    1,879| 1,871|    3,617|    3,331| 3,448|     6,047|     5,586|  5,555
                    |         |         |      |         |         |      |          |          |
Denmark ............|    7,146|    7,275| 7,572|    8,108|    7,946| 8,113|    11,330|    12,322| 14,280
Finland ............|    4,399|    4,440| 4,708|    6,233|    6,267| 6,537|     8,627|     8,479| 10,981
France .............|    4,368|    4,614| 4,777|    7,592|    7,853| 8,107|     8,326|     8,611|  8,837
Germany ............|    4,059|    4,317| 4,237|    7,020|    7,020| 6,620|    11,050|    11,208| 10,504
Greece .............|\2\ 2,313|\2\ 3,412| 3,299|\2\ 3,087|\2\ 3,969| 3,768|\2\  4,529|\2\  3,499|  4,280
                    |         |         |      |         |         |      |          |          |
Hungary\2\ .........|    2,317|    2,309| 2,592|    2,518|    2,516| 2,633|     6,231|     7,224|  7,122
Iceland ............|     --- |\2\ 6,021| 6,373|     --- |\2\ 6,703| 7,265|      --- |\2\  8,221|  7,674
Ireland ............|    3,209|    3,481| 3,743|    4,660|    4,770| 5,245|    10,284|    11,398| 10,003
Italy\2\ ...........|    5,692|    6,143| 6,783|    6,930|    7,423| 8,258|     8,029|     8,294|  8,347
Japan ..............|    5,571|    5,664| 5,771|    6,421|    6,444| 6,534|    10,927|    11,225| 11,164
                    |         |         |      |         |         |      |          |          |
Korea, Republic of .|    3,017|    3,245| 3,714|    3,635|    4,185| 5,159|     5,694|     6,292|  6,618
Luxembourg .........|     --- |     --- | 7,873|     --- |     --- |11,091|      --- |      --- |   ---
Mexico .............|    1,165|    1,328| 1,357|    1,574|    1,661| 1,915|     5,092|     4,821|  4,341
Netherlands ........|    4,425|    4,448| 4,862|    6,028|    6,080| 6,403|    13,061|    12,274| 12,974
New Zealand ........|     --- |     --- |  --- |     --- |     --- |  --- |      --- |      --- |   ---
                    |         |         |      |         |         |      |          |          |
Norway .............|\2\ 6,294|\2\ 6,736| 7,404|\2\ 8,110|\2\ 8,717| 9,040|\2\ 12,860|\2\ 13,733| 13,189
Poland\2\ ..........|    2,226|    2,165| 2,322|    1,428|     --- |  --- |     4,122|     3,314|  3,579
Portugal ...........|    3,698|    3,776| 4,181|    5,508|    5,501| 5,976|     5,105|     4,902|  5,199
Slovak Republic ....|     --- |    1,345| 1,252|    2,300|    1,982| 1,874|     5,661|     5,090|  5,285
Spain ..............|    3,865|    4,053| 4,168|    5,171|    5,333| 5,442|     6,068|     6,856|  7,455
                    |         |         |      |         |         |      |          |          |
Sweden .............|    6,098|    6,516| 6,295|    6,284|    6,519| 6,482|    15,121|    15,527| 15,188
Switzerland\2\ .....|    7,084|    6,820| 6,889|   10,372|   10,058|10,916|    19,134|    18,975| 20,230
Turkey\2\ ..........|     --- |     --- |  --- |     --- |     --- |  --- |     4,601|     4,238|   ---
United Kingdom .....|    3,856|    3,987| 4,415|    5,962|    6,161| 5,933|    10,158|     9,932| 10,753
United States ......|    6,998|    7,194| 7,560|    8,672|    9,107| 8,779|    20,434|    20,937| 22,234
____________________|_________|_________|______|_________|_________|______|__________|__________|_______

---Not available.
\1\Includes elementary education.
\2\Public institutions only.

NOTE: Data adjusted to U.S. dollars using the purchasing-power-parity (PPP) index.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2002 through 2004. (This table was prepared April 2005.)