Government spending on education as a share of GDP in Afghanistan
Afghanistan: Government spending on education as a share of GDP was 4.3% in 2017. ▲ Rising
Latest (2017)
4.3%
Change on year
down 4.4%
World rank
90th
of 199 countries
All-time high
4.5%
in 2016
All-time low
2.6%
in 2012
Years of data
8
2010–2017
Government spending on education as a share of GDP in Afghanistan, 2010–2017
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Measured in % of GDP.
Analysis
Afghanistan recorded 4.3% for government spending on education as a share of gdp in 2017.
Compared with earlier readings it is down 4.4% on the previous year and up 24.8% over ten years.
That places Afghanistan 90th out of 199 countries with data for 2017, putting it in the middle of the range.
Countries ranked near Afghanistan
More education data for Afghanistan
- Duration of pre-primary education 1 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 6 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 55.0% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 42.6% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 13 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 7 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 112.2% (2023)
- Primary education, teachers 163,167 (2023)
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling 4.76 live births per woman (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 97.9% (2023)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government spending on education as a share of gdp in Afghanistan?
- Government spending on education as a share of gdp in Afghanistan was 4.3% in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data.
- What is the highest government spending on education as a share of gdp recorded in Afghanistan?
- The highest recorded value was 4.5% in 2016.
- What is the lowest government spending on education as a share of gdp recorded in Afghanistan?
- The lowest recorded value was 2.6% in 2012.
- How does Afghanistan rank for government spending on education as a share of gdp?
- Afghanistan ranks 90th out of 199 countries with data for 2017.
- Is government spending on education as a share of gdp rising or falling in Afghanistan?
- Over the last ten years it is up 24.8%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Afghanistan data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data, published as part of Government spending on education as a share of GDP. Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
Total annual general government spending on all levels of education, expressed as a percentage of GDP.