Education Expenditure Statistics, 2018 in Turkey

In 2018, a total expenditure of 214 billion 637 million TL was made with an increase of 21.6% compared to 2017. When evaluated according to educational levels, education expenditures increased at most in pre-primary education with 27.3% and upper secondary education with 24.3% in 2018 compared to the previous year.
Basic indicators on education expenditure, 2011-2018

Percentage of education expenditure in GDP was 5.8%
Expenditure on education as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 5.7% in 2017 and 5.8% in 2018.

The 72.9% of education expenditure was paid by public sourcesThe 72.9% of education expenditure in Turkey in 2018 was spent by the public sources. The share of education expenditure by households was 20.0%.Largest expenditure amount was spent on tertiary education by public institutions

Public institutions spent 33.2% of their total education expenditure (51 billion 050 million TL) for tertiary education, 25.3% of total (38 billion 877 million TL) for upper secondary education. The 43.3% of education expenditure (20 billion 527 million TL) spent by private institutions was for upper secondary education and 30.3% for tertiary education (14 billion 352 million TL).

Education expenditure per student was 9 thousand 790 TL

While the education expenditure per student in Turkey in 2017 was 8 thousand 111 TL, this amount reached to a total of 9 thousand 790 TL in 2018.

Largest amount of expenditure per student was spent for tertiary education

When evaluated according to educational levels, the highest level of education expenditure per student in 2018 was for tertiary education with 16 thousand 248 TL.

Highest increase in education expenditure per student was observed at upper secondary education

The total education expenditure per student was increased by 20.7%. The level of education which reached the highest increase in 2018 compared to 2017 about education expenditure by financing source was upper secondary education with 26.2%. This was followed by lower secondary school with 22.7%.

The next release on this subject will be in December 2020.

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EXPLANATIONS

Education expenditure statistics include the data in detail about the expenditure spent directly or indirectly for formal education by level of education for Turkey. Education expenditure does not cover the spending for non-formal education activities excluding the ones related to the formal education. In this news release, the results for educational expenditure statistics for the years 2011-2018 are included.

Source: TUIK
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