Education in States and Nations: 1991

(ESN) Table 31a: Current public expenditure on education as a percentage of total public expenditure, by level of education and country: 1991

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                             Primary-         Higher         Undistributed/
Country          Total      secondary      education                  other
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Australia         11.1            7.4            3.8                     **
Canada 1          12.6            8.3            4.3                     **
Denmark            9.7            7.4            2.0                    0.3
Finland           13.2            9.1            3.0                    1.1
France             9.2            7.2            1.6                    0.4
Germany (West)     6.7            4.3            1.6                    0.8
Hungary           11.3            9.0            2.0                    0.3
Italy 2            8.1            6.1            1.3                    0.6
Japan              9.7            7.3            0.8                    1.5
Netherlands        8.3            5.4            2.6                    0.3
Norway            10.0            7.5            1.9                    0.6
Sweden             9.3            7.5            1.7                     **
United Kingdom      **             **            2.4                     **
United States     12.2            9.1            3.1                     **
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** Not available or applicable.
1 Preprimary expenditures are included in primary-secondary figure.
2 1989 data.

NOTE: Row percentages may not sum to totals, due to rounding. See supplemental note to Indicator 31 for a detailed discussion of international comparisons of current public education expenditures; the supplmental note and the supplemental note for details on data provided by all countries, Australia, Canada, Finland, France, West Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States; for notes on the calculation of country- and state-level gross products, on the non-inclusion of proprietary schools, and the methodology used for adjusting inflation rates, and limitations to these adjustments.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, International Indicators Project, 1993.

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Figure 31 Table 31b