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St. Lucia — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for St. Lucia, 1982–2024.
Latest value · 2024
3.85%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · -30.5% since 1982
Education spending for St. Lucia was 3.85% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 27 years, from 1982 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 6.53% in 1994. The lowest was 2.74% in 2023 (about 1.4× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.86% per year.
St. Lucia ranks 101 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 59%. The median for Latin America & Caribbean is 4.27%, so St. Lucia sits below it. It peaked in 1994 and has fallen 41% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved down 1%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
3.85%
First (1982)
5.54%
Change
-30.5%
Highest
6.53%
in 1994
Lowest
2.74%
in 2023
Average
4.24%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.86%
Years of data
27
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 3.85% |
| 2023 | 2.74% |
| 2022 | 4.64% |
| 2021 | 5.86% |
| 2020 | 3.62% |
| 2019 | 3.27% |
| 2018 | 3.33% |
| 2017 | 3.63% |
| 2016 | 5.21% |
| 2015 | 3.88% |
| 2014 | 3.89% |
| 2013 | 3.88% |
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.