As % of GDP · annual 2000–{{year}} · World Bank WDI · {{count}} countries
Public education spending, as a percentage of GDP — a continuous annual series from 2000 to 2023. Part of the folded "Research and Development" family, alongside R&D spending, the Shanghai Ranking and the innovation index.
World Bank, World Development Indicators (SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS). Any year without a direct measurement copies the nearest known year (a deliberate visual-readability choice, not an actual measurement of the year shown) — the underlying surveys are published in spaced-out waves, not annually.
Time slider. 2023 distribution: from 0% (Somalia, a failing public budget) to 16.4% (Kiribati, a small island state), median at 4.1% of GDP.
Pacific micro-states occupy nearly the entire top of the ranking, with rates above 10% of GDP — a scale artefact rather than a genuinely disproportionate effort: a fixed education budget mechanically weighs more against a tiny GDP.