EDUCATION
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What percentage of GDP is spent
on pre-primary education?
on pre-primary education?
Values express 2007 public expenditure on pre-primary education as a percentage of GDP. Source: OECD Education Online Database; OECD Factbook 2010; SGI estimate.
Pre-primary education scores
Pre-primary education scores
EducationPre-primary education
To ensure comparability, observed values are transformed into SGI scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The lowest value translates into score 1, the best value into score 10. Remaining values are transformed according to the original data distribution.
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Value
Score
| 1 | Hungary | 0.685 | 10.00 |
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| 2 | Iceland | 0.671 | 9.82 |
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| 3 | Denmark | 0.659 | 9.66 |
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| 4 | France | 0.644 | 9.46 |
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| 5 | Sweden | 0.597 | 8.84 |
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| 6 | Spain | 0.590 | 8.75 |
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| 7 | Belgium | 0.572 | 8.51 |
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| 8 | Mexico | 0.518 | 7.80 |
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| 9 | Poland | 0.502 | 7.59 |
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| 10 | Italy | 0.472 | 7.19 |
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| 11 | Chile | 0.465 | 7.10 |
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| 12 | Austria | 0.407 | 6.33 |
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| 13 | Luxembourg | 0.405 | 6.30 |
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| 14 | Czech Rep. | 0.395 | 6.17 |
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| 15 | Netherlands | 0.383 | 6.01 |
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| 16 | Germany | 0.376 | 5.92 |
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| 17 | Portugal | 0.362 | 5.74 |
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| 18 | New Zealand | 0.346 | 5.53 |
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| 19 | UK | 0.342 | 5.47 |
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| 20 | Finland | 0.336 | 5.39 |
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| 21 | USA | 0.331 | 5.33 |
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| 22 | Slovakia | 0.329 | 5.30 |
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| 23 | Norway | 0.290 | 4.79 |
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| 24 | Switzerland | 0.196 | 3.55 |
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| 25 | Canada | 0.193 | 3.51 |
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| 26 | South Korea | 0.107 | 2.37 |
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| 27 | Greece | 0.089 | 2.13 |
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| 27 | Japan | 0.089 | 2.13 |
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| 29 | Australia | 0.038 | 1.46 |
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| 30 | Turkey | 0.018 | 1.20 |
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| 31 | Ireland | 0.003 | 1.00 |
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Key concepts
A strong education system is crucial to establishing future competitiveness, as well as to creating a cohesive and productive society.
This criterion assess the extent to which a government’s education policy facilitates high-quality learning that contributes to personal development, sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. Focus areas include the need to provide a skilled labor force, upper secondary and tertiary attainment levels, and (equitable) access to education.
Research has increasingly shown the value of pre-primary education as well, particularly in helping non-native children to higher levels of attainment later in their educational careers.
Performance comparison
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