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Which Country Spends the Most Private Money on Education As of GDP?

Private Expenditure on Education (As % of GDP) (%), 2011

Education | February 22, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 30 countries in 2011, USA ranked the highest in private expenditure on education as a share of GDP with 2.24% followed by Cyprus and Japan. On the other end of the scale was Norway with 0.100%, Romania with 0.110% and Finland with 0.150%.

Data for more countries are available at Private Expenditure on Education (As % of GDP) indicator page.

Private Expenditure on Education (As % of GDP)	Unit	1991	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Bulgaria	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.580%	0.620%	0.580%	0.560%	0.660%
Cyprus	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						1.21%	1.21%	1.27%	1.36%	1.53%
France	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.550%	0.540%	0.540%	0.600%	0.610%
Germany	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.920%	0.710%	0.690%	0.700%	0.800%
Iceland	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.720%	0.810%	0.770%	0.710%	0.740%
Japan	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						1.53%	1.66%	1.65%	1.67%	1.60%
Latvia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.770%	0.660%	0.560%	0.600%	0.580%
Lithuania	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...			0.490%	0.460%	0.450%	0.510%	0.660%
Malta	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.370%	0.370%	0.370%	0.300%	1.32%
Netherlands	%	...	...	...	...	...										0.910%	0.880%	0.900%	0.940%	1.02%
Poland	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...				0.550%	0.540%	0.500%	0.740%	0.770%
Slovakia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.700%	0.620%	0.530%	0.700%	0.720%
Slovenia	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...					0.780%	0.760%	0.720%	0.630%	0.680%
Spain	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						0.530%	0.520%	0.610%	0.660%	0.720%
USA	%	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...						2.24%	2.27%	2.50%	2.04%	1.97%