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

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 5.93 percentage points in 2014 and the biggest yearly fall was 12.69 percentage points in 2016. 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 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 26% of the movement over 9 observed years, so the value is moving around more than it is heading anywhere.

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

How it compares

In 2018, Senegal had the 23rd 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 Senegal in the 2018 ranking

• Andorra — 19th of 23: 25.31%
• Guinea — 20th of 23: 20.92%
• Sierra Leone — 21st of 23: 20.47%
• Guatemala — 23rd of 23: 13.18%

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 13 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 Senegal

• Primary school starting age (years) — 6 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 6 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• School enrollment, primary (gross), gender parity index (GPI) — 1.16 (2021)
• Primary education, pupils — 2.35 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 85.33% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 96.07% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 75.52% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers

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Questions people ask

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

16.82% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1998?

It is down 8.49 percentage points from 25.32% in 1998. The highest value was 33.33% in 2014 and the lowest 16.65% in 2016.

How does Senegal rank?

23rd 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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