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Vanuatu — Education spending
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) for Vanuatu, 1994–2024.
Latest value · 2024
7.64%
Government Education Spending (% of GDP) · % of GDP · +85.5% since 1994
Education spending for Vanuatu was 7.64% in 2024, according to the latest World Bank data. The series covers 20 years, from 1994 to 2024. The highest recorded value was 10.70% in 2022. The lowest was 1.77% in 2019 (about 4.3× the low point). Across that span the compound annual growth rate works out to 2.08% per year.
Vanuatu ranks 7 of 172 economies on this measure (1 = highest), putting it in the top 4%. The median for East Asia & Pacific is 4.25%, so Vanuatu sits above it. It peaked in 2022 and has fallen 29% since. Over the last decade (2014–2024) the figure moved up 48%.
Key figures
Latest (2024)
7.64%
First (1994)
4.12%
Change
+85.5%
Highest
10.70%
in 2022
Lowest
1.77%
in 2019
Average
6.65%
Annual growth (CAGR)
2.08%
Years of data
20
Recent years
| Year | % of GDP |
|---|---|
| 2024 | 7.64% |
| 2023 | 7.58% |
| 2022 | 10.7% |
| 2021 | 10.11% |
| 2020 | 2.17% |
| 2019 | 1.77% |
| 2018 | 8.61% |
| 2017 | 4.53% |
| 2016 | 7.68% |
| 2015 | 5.39% |
| 2014 | 5.17% |
| 2009 | 5.16% |
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.