Government spending on education as a share of GDP in Haiti
Haiti: Government spending on education as a share of GDP was 1.0% in 2023. ▲ Rising
Government spending on education as a share of GDP in Haiti, 1981–2023
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. Measured in % of GDP.
Analysis
Haiti recorded 1.0% for government spending on education as a share of gdp in 2023. That is the lowest value across all 16 years on record.
The figure is down 6.1% on the previous year and down 44.9% over ten years.
Over the whole period, government spending on education as a share of gdp in Haiti peaked at 1.9% in 2015 and was at its lowest, 1.0%, in 2023.
Haiti ranks 195th of 199 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 16 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.4% | 5 |
| 1990s | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1.1% | 1 |
| 2010s | 1.5% | 1.1% | 1.9% | 6 |
| 2020s | 1.1% | 1.0% | 1.2% | 4 |
Countries ranked near Haiti
More education data for Haiti
- Duration of pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 64.4% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 30.8% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 184.0% (2016)
- Primary education, teachers 44,472 (1998)
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling 2.62 live births per woman (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 182.1% (2016)
Frequently asked questions
- What is government spending on education as a share of gdp in Haiti?
- Government spending on education as a share of gdp in Haiti was 1.0% in 2023, 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 Haiti?
- The highest recorded value was 1.9% in 2015.
- What is the lowest government spending on education as a share of gdp recorded in Haiti?
- The lowest recorded value was 1.0% in 2023.
- How does Haiti rank for government spending on education as a share of gdp?
- Haiti ranks 195th out of 199 countries with data for 2023.
- Is government spending on education as a share of gdp rising or falling in Haiti?
- Over the last ten years it is down 44.9%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Haiti 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.