Public expenditure on education as % of GDP is the total public expenditure (current and capital) on education expressed as a percentage of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in a given year. Public expenditure on education includes government spending on educational institutions (both public and private), education administration, and transfers/subsidies for private entities (students/households and other privates entities).
| 1970 | 1990 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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| Bahrain | 2.0 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.6 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.7 | 2.8 | 2.3 | 2.4 | 2.4 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 2.0 | ||||
| Kuwait | 4.7 | 6.0 | 6.4 | 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.2 | 7.8 | 6.6 | 5.0 | |||||||||
| Oman | 2.8 | 3.2 | 3.5 | 4.4 | 6.0 | 4.6 | 5.1 | 6.9 | 4.2 | |||||||||
| Qatar | 3.7 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 3.6 | 3.0 | 2.8 | 3.2 | ||||||||
| Saudi Arabia | 5.9 | 5.4 | 5.1 | |||||||||||||||
| United Arab Emirates | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.9 |