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Digest of Education Statistics: 2018
Digest of Education Statistics: 2018

NCES 2020-009
December 2019


Figure 2. Fall enrollment, total expenditures, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2017–18

Figure 2. Fall enrollment, total expenditures, and expenditures as a percentage of the gross domestic product (GDP), by level of education: Selected years, 1965–66 through 2017–18

NOTE: Elementary and secondary enrollment data for school year 2017 (2017–18) are projected. Elementary and secondary expenditure data for school years 2016 and 2017 (2016–17 and 2017–18) are estimated. Postsecondary expenditure data for school year 2017 (2017–18) are estimated.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems, 1965–66 through 1969–70; Statistics of Public Elementary and Secondary School Systems, 1965 through 1980; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education, 1970–71 through 1986–87; Common Core of Data (CCD), “State Nonfiscal Survey of Public Elementary and Secondary Education,” 1981–82 through 2016–17, and “National Public Education Financial Survey,” 1987–88 through 2015–16; Private School Universe Survey (PSS), 1989–90 through 2015–16; National Elementary and Secondary Enrollment Projection Model, 1972 through 2028; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), “Fall Enrollment in Institutions of Higher Education” and “Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education” surveys, 1965–66 through 1985–86; Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), “Fall Enrollment Survey” (IPEDS-EF:86–99) and “Finance Survey” (IPEDS-F:FY87–99); and IPEDS Spring 2001 through Spring 2018, Enrollment and Finance components. U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis, National Income and Product Accounts Tables, retrieved March 8, 2019, from https://apps.bea.gov/itable/index.cfm.