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

Key figures

What the numbers say

On record, the biggest yearly rise was 6.71 percentage points in 2008 and the biggest yearly fall was 4.27 percentage points in 2003. The numbers show how large and when, not why; for the cause, look at what happened in that country in those years.

From 2006 to 2015 there is no clear straight-line trend: a straight line explains 5% of the movement over 8 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 2015, Tajikistan had the 16th highest value of the 16 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 Tajikistan in the 2015 ranking

• Kenya — 13th of 16: 13.07%
• Gambia, The — 14th of 16: 11.33%
• Nepal — 15th of 16: 10.8%

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 15 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 Tajikistan

• 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) — 7 (2025)
• School enrollment, tertiary (% gross) — 35.64% (2024)
• Primary education, pupils — 1.01 million (2024)
• School enrollment, primary (% gross) — 95.76% (2024)
• School enrollment, primary, female (% gross) — 92.6% (2024)
• Primary education, teachers — 37,890 (2024)
• Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure)

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Questions people ask

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

9.95% in 2015, according to the World Bank (World Development Indicators).

How has it changed since 1993?

It is up 0.38 percentage points from 9.57% in 1993. The highest value was 14.25% in 2008 and the lowest 5.35% in 2004.

How does Tajikistan rank?

16th highest of 16 economies with data for 2015.

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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