Skip to content
Argos Sourcing

Macroeconomics

Education

21 World Bank indicators, compared across United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Costa Rica. Each tile carries the annual series and the latest known value for each country, sorted from highest to lowest. Hover a chart to read a given year, open a tile for the full page.

Indicators published
21of 21 for these countries
Countries compared
8United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, United States, China, South Sudan, Costa Rica
Period covered
1970 - 2025the widest in this category
Annual values
3,628on this page, all series

8 countries compared, that is the maximum. Remove one to add another.

By name or World Bank code. Filtering is instant, nothing is reloaded.

21 indicators

Education spending / GDPSE.XPD.TOTL.GD.ZS · %
19702023

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • United Kingdom5.91%2021
  • United States5.42%2021
  • Costa Rica5.31%2023
  • Netherlands5.18%2022
  • Spain4.59%2022
  • Italy4.07%2022
  • China3.9%2023
  • South Sudan1.57%2016
Education / gov. budgetSE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS · %
19812024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Costa Rica20.38%2023
  • Netherlands11.97%2022
  • China11.91%2023
  • United Kingdom11.82%2021
  • United States11.29%2021
  • Spain9.88%2022
  • Italy7.41%2022
  • South Sudan0%2024
Primary enrollmentSE.PRM.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Costa Rica104.77%2024
  • Netherlands104.16%2023
  • Italy103.57%2023
  • Spain102.94%2024
  • United Kingdom102.17%2023
  • China99.64%2024
  • South Sudan98.44%2024
  • United States96.97%2022
Secondary enrollmentSE.SEC.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Netherlands137.51%2023
  • South Sudan122.12%2024
  • Costa Rica121.81%2024
  • Spain118.54%2024
  • United Kingdom112.12%2023
  • Italy100.68%2023
  • United States97.47%2022
  • China92.26%2012
Tertiary enrollmentSE.TER.ENRR · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Spain93.77%2024
  • Netherlands86.59%2023
  • United Kingdom80.41%2023
  • United States79.36%2022
  • China76.88%2024
  • Italy75.95%2023
  • Costa Rica55.02%2019
Primary completionSE.PRM.CMPT.ZS · %
19892024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Costa Rica106.39%2024
  • China103.46%2010
  • United Kingdom101.07%2023
  • Spain98.51%2024
  • Italy97.36%2023
  • United States95.74%2022
  • South Sudan28.66%2011
Primary repetition rateSE.PRM.REPT.ZS · %
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan11.06%2011
  • Spain2.5%2017
  • Costa Rica2.31%2018
  • Netherlands2.18%1985
  • United States1.61%2017
  • Italy0.33%2017
  • China0.01%2018
  • United Kingdom0%2012
Pre-primary enrollmentSE.PRE.ENRR · %
19702021

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • United Kingdom105.76%2020
  • Spain101.83%2020
  • Costa Rica95.24%2021
  • China93.07%2021
  • Italy92.66%2020
  • Netherlands91.95%2020
  • United States72.4%2020
  • South Sudan11.59%2018
Net primary enrollmentSE.PRM.NENR · %
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • United Kingdom99.49%2017
  • Netherlands98.65%2017
  • Costa Rica97.33%2018
  • Spain97.27%2017
  • Italy95.66%2017
  • United States94.63%2017
  • China89.35%1997
  • South Sudan35.21%2015
Net secondary enrollmentSE.SEC.NENR · %
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • United Kingdom97.13%2017
  • Spain96.88%2017
  • Italy94.66%2017
  • Netherlands93.16%2017
  • United States92.45%2017
  • Costa Rica82.45%2018
  • South Sudan5.48%2015
Pupil-teacher ratio (prim.)SE.PRM.ENRL.TC.ZS
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan46.752015
  • China16.432018
  • United Kingdom15.132017
  • United States14.22017
  • Spain13.132017
  • Costa Rica12.22018
  • Netherlands11.812017
  • Italy11.482017
Pupil-teacher ratio (sec.)SE.SEC.ENRL.TC.ZS
19702018

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan27.472015
  • United Kingdom16.622017
  • United States14.622017
  • Netherlands14.522017
  • China13.262018
  • Costa Rica12.432018
  • Spain11.572017
  • Italy9.982017
Bachelor's or higher (25+)SE.TER.CUAT.BA.ZS · %
19942024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • United Kingdom39.59%2021
  • United States39.06%2024
  • Netherlands36.56%2023
  • Spain25.04%2023
  • Italy17.58%2023
  • Costa Rica16.83%2024
  • China7.68%2020
  • South Sudan3.77%2008
Children out of schoolSE.PRM.UNER
19872024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • China8.25 m1997
  • South Sudan1.2 m2024
  • United States965,8532022
  • Italy52,1172023
  • Spain34,0502024
  • Costa Rica19,7012024
  • Netherlands5,6982023
  • United Kingdom3,3262023
Compulsory educationSE.COM.DURS · yrs
19972025

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Netherlands13 yrs2025
  • Costa Rica13 yrs2025
  • Italy12 yrs2025
  • United States12 yrs2025
  • United Kingdom11 yrs2025
  • Spain10 yrs2025
  • China9 yrs2025
  • South Sudan8 yrs2025
Private primary shareSE.PRM.PRIV.ZS · %
19702024

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • South Sudan46.87%2024
  • United Kingdom38.15%2023
  • Spain31.71%2024
  • Costa Rica9.99%2024
  • United States9.72%2023
  • China6.37%2024
  • Italy6.1%2023
  • Netherlands0.32%2022
Gender parity indexSE.ENR.PRSC.FM.ZS
19702021

Latest known valuesorted by value

  • Costa Rica1.052020
  • Spain1.022020
  • United Kingdom1.012020
  • China1.012021
  • Netherlands1.012020
  • Italy0.992020
  • United States0.992020
  • South Sudan0.692015

Source: World Bank, World Bank Open Data Annual series, fetched server side and cached for 24 hours. The World Bank is never called from your browser.