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Cuba — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Cuba, 1980–2022.
Latest value · 2022
8.44%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +0.9% since 1980
Education spending for Cuba was 8.44% in 2022, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 28 years, from 1980 to 2022. The highest recorded value was 14.06% in 2008. The lowest was 5.62% in 1994 (about 1.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.02% per year.
Cuba ranks 5 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 3%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 4.27%, so Cuba sits above it. It peaked in 2008 and has fallen 40% since. Over the last decade (2012–2022) the figure moved down 27%.
Key figures
Latest (2022)
8.44%
First (1980)
8.37%
Change
+0.9%
Highest
14.06%
in 2008
Lowest
5.62%
in 1994
Average
9.40%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.02%
Years of data
28
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.44% |
| 2021 | 9.39% |
| 2020 | 11.52% |
| 2019 | 9.05% |
| 2018 | 8.02% |
| 2017 | 8.44% |
| 2016 | 9.01% |
| 2015 | 8.96% |
| 2014 | 9.61% |
| 2013 | 10.67% |
| 2012 | 11.55% |
| 2010 | 12.84% |
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.