The table illustrates the proportion of budgets that the government allocated for education and training and includes across 5 years with the age from 18 to 24 in 2012.
Overall, it can be seen that the participation rate is higher in comparison with the expenditure rate in both 5 countries. While the participation proportion was the highest in Poland, the expenditure rate was the highest in Slovenia.
Regarding Poland and Slovenia, in the former country, while participation proportion is the highest with 44%, budgets that the government allocated for education and training is the lowest with only 5%. In contrast, the latter country has 40% of the population, but Slovenia’s government spends 25% on these fields.
Following the remaining 3 countries,Czech Republic and Romania have similar proportions. While their expenditure rate was 9% and 10%, their participation rate was 27% and 23% respectively. . In Hungary, 13% of government budgets were spent on education and training while the participant rate comprised 34% of Hungarians.
