The provided bar chart demonstrates the government expenditure on junior and senior education as a percentage of GDP in Finland, the UK, the US, Japan, Brazil and India in 2022.
Overall, in all six nations, a greater share of GDP was distributed to primary education than secondary education. Finland allocated the highest proportion of GDP to school education, while India spent the least on both sectors.
In detail, Finland devoted just over 5% to junior education and nearly a half to senior education, which represented the highest spending for both categories. The United Kingdom followed, allocating 4.8% to primary education, which is relatively the same as the percentage of secondary education spending in Finland, compared to 4.2% for secondary education.
By contrast, the United States and Japan indicated a comparably GDP distribution in both levels of education. Sharing 4.1% and 3.9% in primary education respectively, alongside secondary education outlays of 3.8 percent and 3.6 percent. Brazil devoted 3.2% to primary and 2.8 to secondary. India recorded the minimum figures across the chart, at 2.4% for primary education and 1.9% for secondary education.