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Guatemala — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Guatemala, 1970–2024.
Latest value · 2024
3.08%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +65.5% since 1970
Education spending for Guatemala was 3.08% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 1970 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 3.29% in 2020. The lowest was 1.44% in 1994 (about 2.1× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.94% per year.
Guatemala ranks 133 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 77%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 4.27%, so Guatemala sits below it. It peaked in 2020 and has fallen 7% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 3%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
3.08%
First (1970)
1.86%
Change
+65.5%
Highest
3.29%
in 2020
Lowest
1.44%
in 1994
Average
2.67%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.94%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.08% |
| 2023 | 3.11% |
| 2022 | 3.21% |
| 2021 | 3.09% |
| 2020 | 3.29% |
| 2019 | 3.19% |
| 2018 | 3.13% |
| 2017 | 2.95% |
| 2016 | 2.94% |
| 2015 | 3.03% |
| 2014 | 2.99% |
| 2013 | 2.89% |
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.