St. Lucia: Expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)

Key figures

Over five years it is up 1.39 percentage points from 38.89% in 2013. Since 1972 it is up 13.33 percentage points from 26.94% in 1972. 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 15.04 percentage points in 1973 and the biggest yearly fall was 13.02 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 the straight-line trend is downward, about 1 percentage points a year. A straight line explains 38% 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.

How it compares

In 2018, St. Lucia had the 4th 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 St. Lucia in the 2018 ranking

• Mauritius — 1st of 23: 62.72%
• Sri Lanka — 2nd of 23: 45.74%
• Malaysia — 3rd of 23: 41.37%
• Turks and Caicos Islands — 5th of 23: 39.45%
• Rwanda — 6th of 23: 38.25%
• Colombia — 7th of 23: 38.06%

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 19 values

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

• Argentina — 39.54% (2017)
• Aruba — 33.25% (2016)
• Barbados — 39.31% (2016)
• Belize — 39.95% (2017)
• Brazil — 41.37% (2015)
• British Virgin Islands — 35.07% (2017)
• Chile — 28.47% (2017)
• Colombia — 38.06% (2018)

More education data for St. Lucia

• Primary school starting age (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, duration (years) — 7 (2025)
• Lower secondary school starting age (years) — 12 (2025)
• Secondary education, duration (years) — 5 (2025)
• Primary education, pupils — 14,257 (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 96.78% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 1,067 (2024)
• Primary education, teachers (% female) — 86.22% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 97.17% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, male (% gross) — 96.41% (2024)

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Questions people ask

What is St. Lucia's expenditure on secondary education (% of government expenditure on education)?

40.27% in 2018, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1972?

It is up 13.33 percentage points from 26.94% in 1972. The highest value was 45.71% in 2012 and the lowest 18.61% in 1994.

How does St. Lucia rank?

4th 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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