Education in States and Nations: 1991

(ESN) Table 33a: Current public expenditure per student as a percentage of GDP per capita, by level of education and country: 1991

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                    All             Primary                        Higher
Country            levels            secondary                    education
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Australia            16.9                 12.7                         47.6
Canada 1             27.5                 23.2                         43.5
Denmark              30.6                 27.7                         40.7
Finland              27.6                 22.9                         37.0
France               22.8                 20.9                         27.8
Germany (West)       20.4                 15.9                         28.4
Hungary              27.1                 22.7                         97.4
Italy 2              24.5                 22.0                         26.1
Japan                16.7                 14.3                         12.8
Netherlands          24.1                 18.3                         51.9
Norway               29.1                 25.9                         35.2
Spain 3              17.6                 16.3                         21.9
Sweden               36.0                 34.0                         47.9
United Kingdom        **                   **                          62.5
United States        22.3                 20.5                         30.1
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** Not available.
1 Preprimary expenditures are included in primary-secondary figure.
2 1989 data.
3 1992 data.

NOTE: Row percentages may not sum to totals, due to rounding. See supplemental note to Indicator 33 for a detailed discussion of international comparisons of public education expenditures; 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, the non-inclusion of proprietary schools, the calculation of full-time equivalent enrollments, 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 33c Table 33b