Table 404.

Public and private education expenditures per student, by level of education and country: Selected years, 2000 through 2004

Country	Elementary								Secondary								Higher education
	2000		2002		2003		2004		2000		2002		2003		2004		2000		2002		2003		2004
1	2		3		4		5		6		7		8		9		10		11		12		13
	Current dollars
Australia	$4,967		$5,169		$5,494		$5,776		$6,894		$7,375		$7,788		$8,160		$12,854		$12,416		$12,406		$14,036
Austria	6,560		7,015		7,139		7,669		8,578		8,887		8,943		9,446		10,851		12,448		12,344		13,959
Belgium	4,310		5,665		6,180		6,636		6,889		8,272		7,708		7,751		10,771		12,019		11,824		11,842
Canada	—		—		—		—		5,947	1	6,482		—		—		14,983		19,992		—		—
Czech Republic	1,827		2,077		2,273		2,791		3,239		3,628		4,088		4,779		5,431		6,236		6,774		6,752
Denmark	7,074		7,727		7,814		8,081		7,726		8,003		8,183		8,849		11,981		15,183		14,014		15,225
Finland	4,317		5,087		5,321		5,581		6,094		7,121		7,402		7,441		8,244		11,768		12,047		12,505
France	4,486		5,033		4,939		5,082		7,636		8,472		8,653		8,737		8,373		9,276		10,704		10,668
Germany	4,198		4,537		4,624		4,948		6,826		7,025		7,173		7,576		10,898		10,999		11,594		12,255
Greece	3,318	2	3,803		4,218		4,595		3,859	2	4,058		4,954		5,213		3,402	2	4,731		4,924		5,593
Hungary2	2,245		3,016		3,286		3,841		2,446		3,184		3,948		3,692		7,024		8,205		8,576		7,095
Iceland	5,854	2	7,171		7,752		8,434		6,518	2	7,229		6,898		7,721		7,994	2	8,251		8,023		8,881
Ireland	3,385		4,180		4,760		5,422		4,638		5,725		6,374		7,110		11,083		9,809		9,341		10,211
Italy2	5,973		7,231		7,366		7,390		7,218		7,598		7,938		7,843		8,065		8,636		8,764		7,723
Japan	5,507		6,117		6,350		6,551		6,266		6,952		7,283		7,615		10,914		11,716		11,556		12,193
Korea, Republic of	3,155		3,553		4,098		4,490		4,069		5,882		6,410		6,761		6,118		6,047		7,089		7,068
Luxembourg	—		10,611		11,481		13,458	2	—		15,195		17,078		17,876	2	—		—		—		—
Mexico	1,291		1,467		1,656		1,694		1,615		1,768		1,918		1,922		4,688		6,074		5,774		5,778
Netherlands	4,325		5,558		5,836		6,222		5,912		6,823		6,996		7,541		11,934		13,101		13,444		13,846
New Zealand	—		4,536		4,841		5,190		—		5,698		5,693		6,299		—		—		8,832		8,866
Norway	6,550	2	7,508		7,977		8,533		8,476	2	10,154		10,919		11,109		13,353	2	13,739		13,772		14,997
Poland2	2,105		2,585		2,859		3,130		—		—		2,951		2,889		3,222		4,834		4,589		4,412
Portugal	3,672		4,940	2	4,503	2	4,681	2	5,349		6,921	2	6,094	2	6,168	2	4,766		6,960		7,200	2	7,741	2
Slovak Republic	1,308		1,471		2,020		2,073		1,927		2,193		2,401		2,744		4,949		4,756		4,678		6,535
Spain	3,941		4,592		4,829		4,965		5,185		6,010		6,418		6,701		6,666		8,020		8,943		9,378
Sweden	6,336		7,143		7,291		7,469		6,339		7,400		7,662		8,039		15,097		15,715		16,073		16,218
Switzerland2	6,631		7,776		8,131		8,570		9,780		11,900		12,209		12,176		18,450		23,714		25,900		21,966
Turkey2	—		—		869		1,120		—		—		1,428		1,808		4,121		—		—		—
United Kingdom	3,877		5,150		5,851		5,941		5,991		6,505		7,290		7,090		9,657		11,822		11,866		11,484
United States	6,995		8,049		8,305		8,805		8,855		9,098		9,590		9,938		20,358		20,545		24,074		22,476
	Constant 2006 dollars
Australia	$5,815		$5,793		$6,021		$6,165		$8,071		$8,265		$8,535		$8,709		$15,048		$13,915		$13,595		$14,980
Austria	7,680		7,862		7,823		8,185		10,042		9,960		9,800		10,082		12,703		13,951		13,527		14,898
Belgium	5,046		6,349		6,772		7,082		8,065		9,271		8,447		8,272		12,609		13,470		12,957		12,639
Canada	—		—		—		—		6,962	1	7,265		—		—		17,540		22,406		—		—
Czech Republic	2,139		2,328		2,491		2,979		3,792		4,066		4,480		5,101		6,358		6,989		7,423		7,206
Denmark	8,281		8,660		8,563		8,625		9,045		8,969		8,967		9,444		14,026		17,016		15,357		16,249
Finland	5,054		5,701		5,831		5,956		7,134		7,981		8,112		7,942		9,651		13,189		13,202		13,346
France	5,252		5,641		5,412		5,424		8,939		9,495		9,482		9,325		9,802		10,396		11,730		11,386
Germany	4,915		5,085		5,067		5,281		7,991		7,873		7,861		8,086		12,758		12,327		12,705		13,080
Greece	3,884	2	4,262		4,622		4,904		4,518	2	4,548		5,429		5,564		3,983	2	5,302		5,396		5,969
Hungary2	2,628		3,380		3,601		4,099		2,863		3,568		4,326		3,940		8,223		9,196		9,398		7,572
Iceland	6,853	2	8,037		8,495		9,001		7,631	2	8,102		7,559		8,240		9,358	2	9,247		8,792		9,479
Ireland	3,963		4,685		5,216		5,787		5,430		6,416		6,985		7,588		12,975		10,993		10,236		10,898
Italy2	6,992		8,104		8,072		7,887		8,450		8,515		8,699		8,371		9,442		9,679		9,604		8,243
Japan	6,447		6,856		6,959		6,992		7,336		7,791		7,981		8,127		12,777		13,130		12,664		13,013
Korea, Republic of	3,694		3,982		4,491		4,792		4,764		6,592		7,024		7,216		7,162		6,777		7,769		7,544
Luxembourg	—		11,892		12,582		14,363	2	—		17,030		18,715		19,079	2	—		—		—		—
Mexico	1,511		1,644		1,815		1,808		1,891		1,981		2,102		2,051		5,488		6,807		6,327		6,167
Netherlands	5,063		6,229		6,395		6,641		6,921		7,647		7,667		8,048		13,971		14,683		14,733		14,778
New Zealand	—		5,084		5,305		5,539		—		6,386		6,239		6,723		—		—		9,679		9,463
Norway	7,668	2	8,414		8,742		9,107		9,923	2	11,380		11,966		11,856		15,632	2	15,398		15,092		16,006
Poland2	2,464		2,897		3,133		3,341		—		—		3,234		3,083		3,772		5,418		5,029		4,709
Portugal	4,299		5,536	2	4,935	2	4,996	2	6,262		7,757	2	6,678	2	6,583	2	5,579		7,800		7,890	2	8,262	2
Slovak Republic	1,531		1,649		2,214		2,212		2,256		2,458		2,631		2,929		5,794		5,330		5,126		6,975
Spain	4,614		5,146		5,292		5,299		6,070		6,736		7,033		7,152		7,804		8,988		9,800		10,009
Sweden	7,417		8,005		7,990		7,972		7,421		8,293		8,396		8,580		17,674		17,612		17,614		17,309
Switzerland2	7,763		8,715		8,910		9,147		11,449		13,337		13,379		12,995		21,599		26,577		28,383		23,444
Turkey2	—		—		952		1,195		—		—		1,565		1,930		4,824		—		—		—
United Kingdom	4,539		5,772		6,412		6,341		7,014		7,290		7,989		7,567		11,305		13,249		13,003		12,257
United States	8,189		9,021		9,101		9,397		10,366		10,196		10,509		10,607		23,833		23,025		26,382		23,988

— Not available. 1 Includes elementary education. 2 Public institutions only. NOTE: Data adjusted to U.S. dollars using the purchasing-power-parity (PPP) index. Constant dollars based on the Consumer Price Index, prepared by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2002 through 2007. (This table was prepared August 2007.)