Education expenditure in the budget in Northern America in 2017 — 13.68%. Since 2015, the indicator has risen by 0.27 pp.
2015–2017 · % of government expenditure
How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Northern America
| Year | % | Change, pp |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 13.68 | — |
| 2015 | 13.41 | — |
Government expenditure on education as a percentage of total government expenditure. Unlike the share of GDP, it shows the priority within the budget: a country may spend little on education as a percentage of GDP, yet with a small state that turns out to be a significant part of all expenditure. The international benchmark agreed under the Dakar Framework for Action is fifteen to twenty percent of the budget.
Important: The aggregate is weighted by government consumption in dollars: it accounts for about two thirds of all budget expenditure, and the source does not publish absolute spending. The same device is used for military expenditure in the budget.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.