Latin America & Caribbean (IDA & IBRD): Expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 1.25 percentage points from 19.84% in 2011. Since 1995 it is down 2.07 percentage points from 23.16% in 1995. The World Bank has no value for 10 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

From 2007 to 2016 the straight-line trend is upward, about 0.35 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 67% of the movement over 9 observed years.

Worked out from the yearly values above. How the checks work: standard deviation, z-scores and straight-line trends.

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 12 values

Expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education) in nearby economies

• Afghanistan — 15.95% (2015)
• Iran, Islamic Rep. — 28.24% (2018)
• Israel — 15.16% (2016)
• Jordan — 22.75% (2018)
• Malta — 25.33% (2015)
• Pakistan — 22.11% (2017)
• Tunisia — 23.94% (2015)

More education data for Latin America & Caribbean (IDA & IBRD)

• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 60.53 million (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 3.22 million (2024)
• Primary education, teachers (% female) — 77.6% (2024)
• Secondary education, pupils — 62.34 million (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers — 4.25 million (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers, female — 2.56 million (2024)

Reading data like this

• Where to find free public data, and how to check it before you trust it — 2 min read
• Data analysis examples: 6 worked from one dataset — 3 min read
• Real change or random noise? A plain guide to reading your numbers — 2 min read

Questions people ask

What is Latin America & Caribbean (IDA & IBRD)'s expenditure on tertiary education (% of government expenditure on education)?

21.09% in 2016, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1995?

It is down 2.07 percentage points from 23.16% in 1995. The highest value was 23.16% in 1995 and the lowest 16.96% in 2007.

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.

Want to ask your own questions of data like this? Try AnalyzeIt: upload a file or ask about public data in plain words, and every figure comes with its working.