Home / Education spending / Mauritius
Mauritius — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Mauritius, 1971–2024.
Latest value · 2024
4.25%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +36.5% since 1971
Education spending for Mauritius was 4.25% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 43 years, from 1971 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 5.49% in 1978. The lowest was 2.52% in 1975 (about 1.7× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.59% per year.
Mauritius ranks 86 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 50%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.61%, so Mauritius sits above it. It peaked in 1978 and has fallen 23% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved down 12%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
4.25%
First (1971)
3.11%
Change
+36.5%
Highest
5.49%
in 1978
Lowest
2.52%
in 1975
Average
3.89%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.59%
Years of data
43
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 4.25% |
| 2023 | 4.57% |
| 2022 | 4.84% |
| 2021 | 4.67% |
| 2020 | 4.35% |
| 2019 | 4.54% |
| 2018 | 4.67% |
| 2017 | 4.88% |
| 2016 | 4.88% |
| 2015 | 4.76% |
| 2014 | 4.82% |
| 2013 | 3.57% |
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.