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Nepal — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Nepal, 1998–2024.
Latest value · 2024
3.69%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +27.5% since 1998
Education spending for Nepal was 3.69% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 27 years, from 1998 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 4.77% in 2017. The lowest was 2.89% in 1998 (about 1.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 0.94% per year.
Nepal ranks 109 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 63%. The median for South Asia is 4.10%, so Nepal sits below it. It peaked in 2017 and has fallen 23% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 6%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
3.69%
First (1998)
2.89%
Change
+27.5%
Highest
4.77%
in 2017
Lowest
2.89%
in 1998
Average
3.66%
Annual growth (CAGR)
0.94%
Years of data
27
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.69% |
| 2023 | 3.96% |
| 2022 | 4.14% |
| 2021 | 4.43% |
| 2020 | 4.24% |
| 2019 | 3.89% |
| 2018 | 4.43% |
| 2017 | 4.77% |
| 2016 | 3.9% |
| 2015 | 3.26% |
| 2014 | 3.47% |
| 2013 | 3.02% |
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.