09.12.2020
Education Expenditure Statistics, 2019
Basic indicators on education expenditure, 2011-2019
Total education expenditure, 2011-2019
Percentage of education expenditure in GDP was 6.0%
Expenditure on education as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 5.8% in 2018 and 6.0% in 2019. Government expenditure on education as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 4.3% in 2018 and 4.4% in 2019.
Largest expenditure amount was spent on tertiary education by public institutions
When education expenditures are evaluated according to service providers; Public institutions spent 30.3% of their total education expenditure for tertiary education, 24.9% of total for upper secondary education. The 38.4% of education expenditure spent by private institutions was for upper secondary education and 36.8% for tertiary education.
The 74.0% of education expenditure was paid by public sources
The 74.0% of education expenditure in Turkey in 2019 was spent by the public sources. The share of education expenditure by households was 20.8%.
Distribution of education expenditures by financial resources (%), 2019
Education expenditure per student was 11 thousand 769 TL
While the education expenditure per student in Turkey in 2019 was 10 thousand 5 TL, this amount reached to a total of 11 thousand 769 TL in 2019.
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 2019 was for tertiary education with 18 thousand 830 TL.
Education expenditure per student by education level (TL), 2019
Highest increase in education expenditure per student was observed at primary school
The total education expenditure per student was increased by 17.6%. The level of education which reached the highest increase in 2019 compared to 2018 about education expenditure by financing source was primary school with 30.1%. This was followed by lower secondary school with 25.1%.
The percentage of education expenditures made by education level in total expenditure (%), 2018,2019
The next release on this subject will be on December 2021.
EXPLANATIONS
Education expenditure statistics include data on direct or indirect expenditure on formal education. The specified education expenditures only include non-formal education activities directly related to formal education, and do not include expenditures on other non-formal education activities.
Source: TurkStat
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