Elementary and Secondary Education
Finance
Table A-22-1. Annual educational expenditures on public and private institutions per student and as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP), and GDP per capita, by country and level of education: 2008
| Country |
Expenditures per student |
|
Expenditures as a percentage of GDP |
|
GDP per capita |
|
| Elementary and secondary |
Postsecondary |
|
Total1 |
Elementary and secondary |
Post-secondary |
|
|
| OECD average |
$8,169 |
$13,461 |
|
5.9 |
3.8 |
1.5 |
|
$33,910 |
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Australia |
7,814 |
15,043 |
|
5.2 |
3.6 |
1.5 |
|
39,532 |
|
| Austria |
10,994 |
15,043 |
|
5.4 |
3.6 |
1.3 |
|
39,849 |
|
| Belgium |
9,706 |
15,020 |
|
6.6 |
4.4 |
1.4 |
|
36,879 |
|
| Canada2 |
8,388 |
20,903 |
|
6.0 |
3.6 |
2.5 |
|
38,883 |
|
| Chile3 |
2,635 |
6,829 |
|
7.1 |
4.2 |
2.2 |
|
14,578 |
|
| Czech Republic |
5,236 |
8,318 |
|
4.5 |
2.8 |
1.2 |
|
25,845 |
|
| Denmark |
10,429 |
17,634 |
|
7.1 |
4.3 |
1.7 |
|
39,494 |
|
| Estonia |
6,054 |
5,780 |
|
5.8 |
3.9 |
1.3 |
|
21,802 |
|
| Finland |
8,068 |
15,402 |
|
5.9 |
3.8 |
1.7 |
|
37,795 |
|
| France |
8,559 |
14,079 |
|
6.0 |
3.9 |
1.4 |
|
34,233 |
|
| Germany |
7,859 |
15,390 |
|
4.8 |
3.0 |
1.2 |
|
37,171 |
|
| Greece |
— |
— |
|
— |
— |
— |
|
29,920 |
|
| Hungary4,5 |
4,626 |
7,327 |
|
4.8 |
3.0 |
0.9 |
|
20,700 |
|
| Iceland |
9,745 |
10,429 |
|
7.9 |
5.1 |
1.3 |
|
39,029 |
|
| Ireland |
8,915 |
16,284 |
|
5.6 |
4.1 |
1.4 |
|
42,644 |
|
| Israel |
5,780 |
12,568 |
|
7.3 |
4.2 |
1.6 |
|
27,690 |
|
| Italy6 |
9,071 |
9,553 |
|
4.8 |
3.3 |
1.0 |
|
33,271 |
|
| Japan |
8,301 |
14,890 |
|
4.9 |
2.8 |
1.5 |
|
33,902 |
|
| Korea, Republic of |
6,723 |
9,081 |
|
7.6 |
4.2 |
2.6 |
|
26,877 |
|
| Luxembourg7 |
16,909 |
— |
|
— |
2.9 |
— |
|
89,732 |
|
| Mexico |
2,284 |
7,504 |
|
5.8 |
3.7 |
1.2 |
|
15,190 |
|
| Netherlands |
9,251 |
17,245 |
|
5.6 |
3.7 |
1.5 |
|
42,887 |
|
| New Zealand |
6,496 |
10,526 |
|
6.6 |
4.5 |
1.6 |
|
29,231 |
|
| Norway5 |
12,070 |
18,942 |
|
7.3 |
5.0 |
1.7 |
|
43,659 |
|
| Poland4 |
4,682 |
7,063 |
|
5.7 |
3.6 |
1.5 |
|
18,062 |
|
| Portugal4 |
6,276 |
10,373 |
|
5.2 |
3.4 |
1.3 |
|
24,962 |
|
| Slovak Republic8 |
4,006 |
6,560 |
|
4.0 |
2.6 |
0.9 |
|
23,205 |
|
| Slovenia |
8,555 |
9,263 |
|
5.4 |
3.7 |
1.1 |
|
29,241 |
|
| Spain |
8,522 |
13,366 |
|
5.1 |
3.1 |
1.2 |
|
33,173 |
|
| Sweden |
9,524 |
20,014 |
|
6.3 |
4.0 |
1.6 |
|
39,321 |
|
| Switzerland9 |
13,775 |
21,648 |
|
5.7 |
4.3 |
1.3 |
|
45,517 |
|
| Turkey |
— |
— |
|
— |
— |
— |
|
14,963 |
|
| United Kingdom |
9,169 |
15,310 |
|
5.7 |
4.2 |
1.2 |
|
36,817 |
|
| United States |
10,995 |
29,910 |
|
7.2 |
4.1 |
2.7 |
|
46,901 |
|
| — Not available. |
| 1Includes expenditures for preprimary, elementary/secondary, postsecondary nontertiary, and postsecondary education, and education not classified by level. |
| 2Data are for 2007. Postsecondary includes public academic institutions only. |
| 3Data are for 2009. |
| 4Expenditures per student include public institutions only. |
| 5Expenditures as a percentage of GDP include public institutions only. |
| 6Elementary and secondary expenditures per student include public institutions only. |
| 7Luxembourg data are excluded from percentages because of anomalies with respect to their GDP per capita data. (Large revenues from international finance institutions distort the wealth of the population.) Expenditures include public institutions only. |
| 8Expenditures on tertiary vocational programs (International Standard Classification of Education [ISCED] level 5B) are included under elementary and secondary. |
|
| 9Expenditures per student and postsecondary expenditures as a percentage of GDP include public institutions only. |
|
| NOTE: Education expenditures are from public revenue sources (governments) and private revenue sources. Private sources include payments from households for school-based expenses such as tuition, transportation fees, book rentals, or food services, as well as funds raised by institutions through endowments or returns on investments. Per student expenditures are calculated based on public and private full-time-equivalent (FTE) enrollment figures and on current expenditures and capital outlays from both public and private sources, where data are available. Elementary/secondary expenditures generally include postsecondary nontertiary (ISCED level 4) education. Postsecondary nontertiary expenditures are included under postsecondary for Canada and are not available for France, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, and the United States. Postsecondary includes all tertiary-level data (ISCED levels 5A, 5B, and 6). Purchasing power parity (PPP) indices are used to convert other currencies to U.S. dollars. Within-country consumer price indices are used to adjust the PPP indices to account for inflation because the fiscal year has a different starting date in different countries. Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) average reflects the unweighted average of countries reporting data. For more information on classification of expenditures for international comparisons, see Appendix C – Finance. For more information on the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED), see Appendix C – International Education Definitions. |
| SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Center for Educational Research and Innovation. (2011). Education at a Glance, 2011: OECD Indicators, tables B1.1a, B1.2, B2.1, and X2.1. |
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