The two pie charts illustrate data on the global population and people’s investment in education in 2000.
Overall, the majority of the world’s inhabitants resided in the Asian Pacific region in 2000. In addition, high school contributed the largest proportion of people’s spending on education.
Following the global population distribution, 54% of the world’s population lived in the Asian Pacific region, by far higher than the other regions. Next came Europe, Africa, Latin America & Caribbean, which accounted for 11%, 10%, and 9%, respectively. Furthermore, 7% of the world’s population inhabited North America, while 6% of them lived in the Middle East and North Africa, leaving the rest of the world only 3%.
Regarding the investment in education, 33% of the total budget was spent on high school. Meanwhile, primary school and secondary school had lower expenditures, each at 26%. Finally, university and further education only allocated a small portion of the total spending, at 8% and 7%, respectively.