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

Key figures

Since 1972 it is down 5.73 percentage points from 20.36% in 1972. The World Bank has no value for 37 of the years in between; the chart leaves those gaps open rather than joining across them.

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 11 values

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

• Australia — 26.82% (2016)
• Brunei Darussalam — 18.89% (2016)
• Hong Kong SAR, China — 29.39% (2018)
• Indonesia — 15.8% (2015)
• Korea, Rep. — 20.45% (2016)
• Macao SAR, China — 37.12% (2017)
• Malaysia — 21.35% (2018)
• Mongolia — 6.41% (2017)

More education data for Myanmar

• Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 10 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 5.3 million (2018)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 120.22% (2018)
• Secondary education, general pupils — 4.18 million (2018)
• Primary education, teachers — 217,561 (2018)
• Secondary education, vocational pupils — 7,348 (2018)
• Secondary education, teachers — 153,660 (2018)

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Questions people ask

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

14.63% in 2019, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1972?

It is down 5.73 percentage points from 20.36% in 1972. The highest value was 22.59% in 1995 and the lowest 11.28% in 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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