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Benin — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Benin, 1998–2023.
Latest value · 2023
3.23%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +17.5% since 1998
Education spending for Benin was 3.23% in 2023, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 1998 to 2023. The highest recorded value was 3.68% in 2010. The lowest was 1.92% in 1999 (about 1.7× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.65% per year.
Benin ranks 126 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 73%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.61%, so Benin sits below it. It peaked in 2010 and has fallen 12% since. Over the last decade (2013–2023) the figure moved down 3%.
Key figures
Latest (2023)
3.23%
First (1998)
2.75%
Change
+17.5%
Highest
3.68%
in 2010
Lowest
1.92%
in 1999
Average
2.84%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.65%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.23% |
| 2022 | 3.1% |
| 2021 | 3.1% |
| 2020 | 2.9% |
| 2019 | 2.73% |
| 2018 | 2.93% |
| 2017 | 3.54% |
| 2016 | 2.9% |
| 2015 | 3.17% |
| 2014 | 3.16% |
| 2013 | 3.33% |
| 2012 | 3.56% |
Reading this correctly. Total general government expenditure on education, expressed as a percentage of GDP. Includes both current and capital spending. Figures are in % of GDP. Comparing this series with a different measure of the same concept (for example a nominal figure against a purchasing-power-parity figure) will give misleading results.
Related data
Source. World Bank Open Data, indicator
SE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS — Government Education Spending (% of GDP). Data licensed under CC BY 4.0. Values are reproduced as published; this page computes the summary statistics (change, CAGR, extremes) from the underlying annual series. View the original dataset on data.worldbank.org.