< Previous Map

Tertiary Education Spending

Map No. 211

Open PDF poster

Next Map >

Of all spending on tertiary education, when measured in US$ adjusted for local purchasing power, 61% occurs within North America and Western Europe. At the other extreme, the total tertiary education spending in all of Central Africa and Southeastern Africa was 1.5% of the total worldwide spend.

Tertiary education includes the training required for jobs such as being a doctor, an engineer or a scientist. Investing in tertiary education can therefore benefit society more widely. For pupils to reach tertiary education they must first attend primary and secondary schools.

"With regard to the issue of equity in social expenditure, investment in primary education reaches a much broader cross section of society than does funding to higher education ..." Michael C. Gonzales, 1999

Territory size shows the proportion of all spending on tertiary education worldwide that is spent there, when measured in purchasing power parity US$.

• Open PDF poster, designed for printing. You need Acrobat Reader.
• View labelled territory map or population map for comparison
• Data files: Excel (large with map), Excel (small no map), Opendoc format (see notes)
• Technical notes for this data.
• High Resolution image (see copyright conditions)
• All of the data we use is estimated; see data page