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

Key figures

Since 1996 it is down 1.61 percentage points from 13.51% in 1996. The World Bank has no value for 11 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 0.2 percentage points in 2011 and the biggest yearly fall was 2.84 percentage points in 2018. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2009 to 2018 the straight-line trend is downward, about 0.57 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 77% of the movement over 8 observed 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, Moldova had the 17th 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 Moldova in the 2018 ranking

• South Africa — 14th of 23: 15.25%
• Côte d'Ivoire — 15th of 23: 14.03%
• Guatemala — 16th of 23: 13.89%
• Kazakhstan — 18th of 23: 9.38%
• El Salvador — 19th of 23: 9.17%
• Lesotho — 20th of 23: 7.41%

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

• Andorra — 5.64% (2018)
• Armenia — 12.99% (2017)
• Austria — 32.49% (2016)
• Azerbaijan — 16.4% (2017)
• Belarus — 16.48% (2017)
• Belgium — 22.28% (2016)
• Cyprus — 20.78% (2016)
• Czechia — 12.6% (2016)

More education data for Moldova

• Primary school starting age (years) — 7 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 4 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 11 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 8 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 136,696 (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 7,408 (2024)
• Primary education, teachers (% female) — 98.26% (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers — 19,388 (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers, female — 15,925 (2024)
• Secondary education, teachers (% female) — 82.14% (2024)

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Questions people ask

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

11.9% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1996?

It is down 1.61 percentage points from 13.51% in 1996. The highest value was 19.51% in 2007 and the lowest 11.9% in 2018.

How does Moldova rank?

17th 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.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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