Education in States and Nations: 1991

(ESN) Table 34a: Distribution of current public expenditure on education, by level of education and country: 1991

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                   Percent of current public education expenditure            
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                             Primary        Higher           Undistributed/
Country                     secondary    education                    other
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Australia                        66.2         33.8                       **  
Canada 1                         66.0         34.0                       **  
Denmark                          76.3         20.9                      2.8
Finland                          68.8         22.6                      8.6
France                           78.2         17.9                      3.9
Germany (West)                   64.5         24.0                     11.5
Hungary                          79.8         17.4                      2.8
Italy 2                          75.8         16.6                      7.6
Japan                            75.5          8.7                     15.8
Netherlands                      64.8         31.9                      3.3
Norway                           75.1         18.7                      6.2
Spain 3                          79.9         17.5                      2.6
Sweden                           81.3         18.7                       **
United States                    74.4         25.6                       **  
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**Not available or applicable.
1 Preprimary expenditures are included in primary-secondary figure.
2 1989 data.
3 1992 data.

NOTE: Row percentages may not sum to 100 due to rounding. See supplemental note to indicator 34 for a detailed discussion of international comparisons of public education expenditures; and the supplemental note for details on data provided by Australia, Canada, France, West Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom, for a discussion of the non-inclusion of proprietary schools, and the methodology used for adjusting inflation rates.

SOURCE: Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and Innovation, International Indicators Project, 1993.

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Figure 34 Table 34b