Lesotho: Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Key figures

Since 1971 it is up 2.46 percentage points from 27.6% in 1971. The World Bank has no value for 28 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 14.64 percentage points in 1984 and the biggest yearly fall was 3.88 percentage points in 2001. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

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

How it compares

In 2018, Lesotho had the 18th highest value of the 23 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 Lesotho in the 2018 ranking

• St. Vincent and the Grenadines — 14th of 23: 31.55%
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 15th of 23: 31.32%
• South Africa — 16th of 23: 30.76%
• Costa Rica — 18th of 23: 28.68%
• Andorra — 19th of 23: 25.31%
• Guinea — 20th of 23: 20.92%

What this measures

Expenditure on secondary 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 20 values

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

• Benin — 23.74% (2015)
• Burkina Faso — 22.09% (2015)
• Cabo Verde — 39.93% (2017)
• Côte d'Ivoire — 35.12% (2018)
• Ethiopia — 18.14% (2015)
• Gambia, The — 32.83% (2015)
• Guinea — 20.92% (2018)
• Kenya — 41.76% (2015)

More education data for Lesotho

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 13 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 309,480 (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 80.18% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 78.6% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 81.75% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 10,388 (2024)
• Primary education, teachers (% female) — 74.46% (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is Lesotho's expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)?

30.06% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1971?

It is up 2.46 percentage points from 27.6% in 1971. The highest value was 38.77% in 1985 and the lowest 17.86% in 2006.

How does Lesotho rank?

18th highest of 23 economies with data for 2018.

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.SECO.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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