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Digest of Education Statistics: 2004
Digest of Education Statistics: 2004

NCES 2006-005
October 2005


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

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                    |         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.)