Bermuda: Expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Key figures

Since 1973 it is up 6.29 percentage points from 10.69% in 1973. The World Bank has no value for 35 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

How it compares

In 2017, Bermuda had the 12th highest value of the 20 economies reporting that year. Higher is not always better: for some indicators the lowest value is the one to aim for. See the full ranking.

Closest to Bermuda in the 2017 ranking

• Togo — 9th of 20: 17.74%
• Mali — 10th of 20: 17.29%
• Cabo Verde — 11th of 20: 17.15%
• Belarus — 13th of 20: 16.48%
• Azerbaijan — 14th of 20: 16.4%
• Armenia — 15th of 20: 12.99%

What this measures

Expenditure on tertiary education is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on education. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.

Limitations: Data disaggregated by level of education are estimates in some instances. It is often difficult to separate lower from upper secondary education expenditure, or pre-primary from primary.

Regional and income-group figures are computed by the World Bank as a median.

All 10 values

More education data for Bermuda

• Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 11 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 3,377 (2023)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 92.85% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 93.29% (2023)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 92.42% (2023)
• Primary education, teachers — 420 (2016)
• Secondary education, general pupils — 4,040 (2015)

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Questions people ask

What is Bermuda's expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education)?

16.98% in 2017, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1973?

It is up 6.29 percentage points from 10.69% in 1973. The highest value was 35.11% in 1990 and the lowest 1.85% in 1998.

How does Bermuda rank?

12th highest of 20 economies with data for 2017.

Where does this data come from?

The World Bank's World Development Indicators, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Source

World Bank, World Development Indicators, indicator SE.XPD.TERT.ZS, licensed CC BY 4.0. Original source: Stat Bulk Data Download Service, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), uri: https://uis.unesco.org/bdds, publisher: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) Figures are fetched from the World Bank API and refreshed monthly; see the series on data.worldbank.org. The full definition and method are in the World Bank's metadata glossary. Comparisons use the same World Bank release.

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