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Education expenditure refers to the current operating expenditures in education, including wages and salaries and excluding capital investments in buildings and equipment.

Rank	Country	Value
Adjusted savings: education expenditure (% of GNI) - Adjusted savings - Environment - World Development Indicators (2008)
1	Cuba	13.18
2	Lesotho	9.43
3	Uzbekistan	9.37
4	Denmark	7.41
5	Iceland	7.31
6	Namibia	7.28
7	Saudi Arabia	7.19
8	Zimbabwe	6.87
9	Tunisia	6.66
10	Kenya	6.63
11	New Zealand	6.62
12	Marshall Islands	6.61
13	Botswana	6.58
14	Moldova	6.53
15	Cyprus	6.50
16	Maldives	6.48
17	Sweden	6.41
18	Barbados	6.39
19	Swaziland	6.38
20	Papua New Guinea	6.28
21	Norway	6.03
22	Fiji	6.03
23	Vanuatu	5.95
24	Israel	5.91
25	Ukraine	5.86
26	Seychelles	5.85
27	Kyrgyzstan	5.82
28	Belgium	5.81
29	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	5.80
30	Guyana	5.69
31	Finland	5.64
32	Belize	5.62
33	Jordan	5.61
34	Latvia	5.57
35	St. Lucia	5.46
36	Poland	5.42
37	Hungary	5.34
38	Slovenia	5.31
39	Austria	5.30
40	Portugal	5.30
41	Jamaica	5.28
42	Morocco	5.22
43	Ireland	5.17
44	South Africa	5.14
45	Grenada	5.14
46	Australia	5.11
47	Burundi	5.10
48	United Kingdom	5.06
49	France	5.05
50	Costa Rica	5.04
51	Cape Verde	5.02
52	High income: nonOECD	4.99
53	Belarus	4.93
54	Macedonia	4.90
55	Netherlands	4.85
56	United States	4.79
57	Thailand	4.79
58	Canada	4.78
59	Brazil	4.77
60	Mexico	4.75
61	Ghana	4.74
62	Ivory Coast	4.67
63	Bolivia	4.66
64	Switzerland	4.65
65	Malta	4.64
66	Rwanda	4.61
67	Mongolia	4.61
68	Estonia	4.61
69	High income	4.60
70	High income: OECD	4.59
71	Lithuania	4.59
72	Euro area	4.59
73	Argentina	4.54
74	Italy	4.52
75	Senegal	4.49
76	Algeria	4.47
77	Middle East & North Africa	4.44
78	Panama	4.42
79	Egypt	4.41
80	Kazakhstan	4.41
81	Latin America & Caribbean	4.36
82	Bahrain	4.36
83	Czech Republic	4.35
84	Croatia	4.34
85	Aruba	4.33
86	Germany	4.28
87	Upper middle income	4.23
88	Comoros	4.19
89	Iran	4.15
90	St. Kitts and Nevis	4.08
91	Europe & Central Asia	4.05
92	Bulgaria	4.05
93	Malaysia	4.04
94	Trinidad and Tobago	4.01
95	Samoa	3.98
96	North Korea	3.94
97	South Korea	3.94
98	Dominica	3.91
99	Sierra Leone	3.90
100	Spain	3.90
101	Oman	3.89
102	Paraguay	3.87
103	Bahamas	3.84
104	Solomon Islands	3.83
105	Tonga	3.77
106	Mozambique	3.75
107	Luxembourg	3.72
108	Togo	3.71
109	Ethiopia	3.71
110	Slovakia	3.70
111	Turkey	3.68
112	Brunei Darussalam	3.64
113	Chile	3.60
114	Mali	3.58
115	Colombia	3.58
116	Djibouti	3.56
117	Honduras	3.55
118	Russia	3.54
119	Dominican Republic	3.54
120	Venezuela	3.53
121	Malawi	3.51
122	Suriname	3.44
123	Low income	3.43
124	Mauritius	3.41
125	Romania	3.40
126	Nepal	3.39
127	Bhutan	3.35
128	El Salvador	3.31
129	Middle income	3.30
130	Low & middle income	3.30
131	Sub-Saharan Africa	3.29
132	Benin	3.28
133	Uganda	3.27
134	Burkina Faso	3.26
135	Tajikistan	3.20
136	Japan	3.17
137	India	3.17
138	Gabon	3.06
139	Kuwait	3.02
140	Hong Kong	2.97
141	South Asia	2.97
142	Nicaragua	2.96
143	Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)	2.96
144	Guatemala	2.88
145	Albania	2.84
146	Vietnam	2.81
147	Georgia	2.78
148	Greece	2.75
149	Mauritania	2.75
150	Singapore	2.71
151	Niger	2.65
152	Uruguay	2.65
153	Madagascar	2.64
154	Cameroon	2.62
155	Syria	2.60
156	Sri Lanka	2.55
157	Peru	2.50
158	Tanzania	2.39
159	Lower middle income	2.34
160	Least developed countries: UN classification	2.34
161	Guinea-Bissau	2.29
162	Angola	2.27
163	Republic of the Congo	2.25
164	Armenia	2.22
165	Philippines	2.19
166	Andorra	2.18
167	Macau	2.18
168	Pakistan	2.14
169	Gambia	2.04
170	Azerbaijan	2.03
171	East Asia & Pacific	2.01
172	Guinea	2
173	Bermuda	1.98
174	Bangladesh	1.97
175	Eritrea	1.92
176	Lebanon	1.82
177	China	1.80
178	Cambodia	1.66
179	Antigua and Barbuda	1.60
180	Haiti	1.46
181	Ecuador	1.38
182	Zambia	1.32
183	Central African Republic	1.29
184	Laos	1.18
185	Chad	1.17
186	Equatorial Guinea	1.15
187	Indonesia	1.15
188	Democratic Republic of the Congo	0.95
189	Timor-Leste	0.93
190	Sudan	0.87
191	Nigeria	0.85
192	Burma	0.84

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