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Uganda — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Uganda, 1971–2022.
Latest value · 2022
2.56%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · -19.0% since 1971
Education spending for Uganda was 2.56% in 2022, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 25 years, from 1971 to 2022. The highest recorded value was 5.10% in 1988. The lowest was 1.69% in 1983 (about 1.5× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to -0.41% per year.
Uganda ranks 148 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 86%. The median for Sub-Saharan Africa is 3.61%, so Uganda sits below it. It peaked in 1988 and has fallen 50% since. Over the last decade (2012–2022) the figure moved up 42%.
Key figures
Latest (2022)
2.56%
First (1971)
3.16%
Change
-19.0%
Highest
5.10%
in 1988
Lowest
1.69%
in 1983
Average
2.68%
Annual growth (CAGR)
-0.41%
Years of data
25
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.56% |
| 2021 | 2.64% |
| 2020 | 2.57% |
| 2019 | 2.31% |
| 2018 | 2.13% |
| 2017 | 2.25% |
| 2016 | 2.14% |
| 2015 | 2.32% |
| 2014 | 1.91% |
| 2013 | 1.87% |
| 2012 | 1.8% |
| 2011 | 2.3% |
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.