Adjusted savings: education expenditure (% of GNI) - Country Ranking - Asia

Definition: Education expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.

Source: UNESCO; data are extrapolated to the most recent year available

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Uzbekistan 9.37 2019
2 Saudi Arabia 7.19 2019
3 Bhutan 7.03 2019
4 Oman 6.50 2019
5 Israel 5.53 2019
6 Kyrgyz Republic 5.39 2019
7 Korea 4.64 2019
8 Vietnam 4.61 2019
9 Iraq 4.60 2019
10 Russia 4.42 2019
11 Mongolia 4.34 2019
12 Thailand 4.19 2019
13 Brunei 3.99 2019
14 Malaysia 3.95 2019
15 Turkey 3.80 2019
16 Tajikistan 3.77 2019
17 Iran 3.74 2019
18 Yemen 3.60 2019
19 Indonesia 3.27 2019
20 Nepal 3.24 2019
21 Kuwait 3.19 2019
22 Timor-Leste 3.17 2019
23 India 3.08 2019
24 Bahrain 2.91 2019
25 Kazakhstan 2.85 2019
26 Hong Kong SAR, China 2.83 2019
27 Singapore 2.76 2019
28 Japan 2.73 2019
29 Jordan 2.69 2019
30 Lao PDR 2.61 2019
31 Syrian Arab Republic 2.60 2019
32 Afghanistan 2.59 2019
33 Azerbaijan 2.56 2019
34 Macao SAR, China 2.44 2019
35 Qatar 2.35 2019
36 Turkmenistan 2.32 2019
37 Armenia 2.29 2019
38 Lebanon 2.10 2019
39 Pakistan 2.03 2019
40 Cambodia 2.00 2019
41 Philippines 1.84 2019
42 China 1.79 2019
43 Georgia 1.76 2019
44 Sri Lanka 1.63 2019
45 Myanmar 1.50 2019
46 Bangladesh 0.90 2019

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Limitations and Exceptions: Public education expenditures are considered an addition to savings. However, because of the wide variability in the effectiveness of public education expenditures, these figures cannot be construed as the value of investments in human capital. A current expenditure of $1 on education does not necessarily yield $1 of human capital. The calculation should also consider private education expenditure, but data are not available for a large number of countries.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual