SGI 2020 | Sustainable Policies | Social Policies | Education

What percentage of GDP is spent on pre-primary education?

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Values among 41 countries

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Definition:	Public expenditure on pre-primary education, percent of GDP
Year:	2016
Unit:	Percent
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	Eurostat Online Database
Data for:	AUT, BEL, BGR, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ITA, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, NLD, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR
Exceptions:	HRV (2011), DNK (2012), EST (2013), IRL (2015)
Annotation:	Eurostat: Public expenditure on education by education level and programme orientation - as % of GDP [educ_uoe_fine06] URL: https//appsso.eurostat.ec.europa .eu/nui/show.do?dataset=educ_uoe _fine06&lang=en extracted May 19th, 2020
Source 2:	UNESCO Online Database
Data for:	AUS, CHL, ISR, JPN, KOR, MEX, NZL, USA
Exceptions:	CHL (2017), MEX (2012)
Annotation:	Unesco: Dataset: Education URL: http://data.uis.unesco.org/I… extracted May 19th, 2020
Source 3:	ECE Early Childhood Education Report, IMF World Economic Outlook
Data for:	CAN
Exceptions:	CAN (2017)
Annotation:	Sources for CAN (2017, 2014, 2011): Atkinson Centre for Society and Child Development, Early Childhood Education Report 2017, change in total provincial/territorial ECE spending URL: http://ecereport.ca/en/repor… retrieved June 12th, 2020 IMF World Economic Outlook, October 2019, gross domestic product, current prices, national currency, billions URL: https://www.imf.org/external… extracted June 12th, 2020 Source for CAN (2006): OECD Starting Strong II: Early Childhood Education and Care, data for figure 5.3, URL: http://www.oecd.org/educatio… Source for CAN (1998-2000): UNESCO Online Database, Dataset: Education URL: http://data.uis.unesco.org/I… extracted May 19th, 2020

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	1.125
Minimum:	0
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9
Annotat.:	Indicator for CAN (2017, 2014, 2011) calculated by Margit Kraus (Calculus Consult)

Top group

Score

Pre-primary Expenditure

Sweden

10.0

1.29

Denmark

10.0

1.25

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Upper middle group

Bulgaria

8.6

0.95

Iceland

7.8

0.85

Israel

7.6

0.83

Latvia

7.4

0.80

Hungary

7.2

0.77

Finland

7.1

0.76

Chile

7.0

0.75

Norway

6.9

0.74

Belgium

6.7

0.71

France

6.5

0.69

Croatia

6.3

0.66

Poland

6.1

0.64

Lithuania

6.0

0.63

Lower middle group

Luxembourg

5.6

0.57

Canada

5.4

0.55

Malta

5.2

0.53

Mexico

5.2

0.53

Slovenia

5.2

0.52

Austria

5.0

0.50

Czechia

4.9

0.49

Slovakia

4.9

0.49

New Zealand

4.8

0.48

Germany

4.7

0.46

Spain

4.7

0.46

Italy

4.6

0.45

South Korea

4.4

0.42

Switzerland

4.3

0.41

Portugal

4.1

0.39

Estonia

3.8

0.35

Netherlands

3.8

0.35

Cyprus

3.6

0.33

USA

3.6

0.32

Romania

3.5

0.31

Greece

3.2

0.27

Turkey

3.0

0.25

Bottom group

Australia

2.8

0.23

2.6

0.20

Japan

1.8

0.10

Ireland

1.6

0.07