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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| Angola | 2.6 | 2.1 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.9 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.8 | 2.5 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 2.7 | 2.3 | 2.3 | |||
| Botswana | 5.7 | 10.7 | 10.8 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.7 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.4 | 8.1 | ||||||
| Comoros | 2.8 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 2.3 | 2.4 | ||||||||||
| Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.0 | 2.2 | 2.1 | 1.5 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.0 | |||||||||
| Lesotho | 10.1 | 12.1 | 8.2 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.2 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.2 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.0 | 7.5 | 6.4 | 6.7 | |||
| Madagascar | 2.4 | 3.3 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 2.5 | 2.4 | 3.0 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | 3.0 | 3.0 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.1 | |||
| Malawi | 2.2 | 3.6 | 2.4 | 2.9 | 2.5 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.6 | 3.3 | |||||||
| Mauritius | 3.1 | 3.7 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.8 | 4.6 | |
| Mozambique | 3.9 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 6.0 | 6.5 | 6.0 | 5.8 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 6.3 | 6.6 | 6.5 | 6.2 | ||||
| Namibia | 6.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 9.2 | 8.6 | 9.6 | 9.9 | 10.6 | 9.7 | 8.9 | 9.3 | 9.3 | 10.4 | 9.7 | 9.0 | |||
| Seychelles | 4.2 | 4.0 | 3.5 | 3.6 | 2.5 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.9 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 4.7 | |||
| South Africa | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 5.9 | 6.2 | 6.5 | 6.2 | 6.1 | |
| इस्वातिनी | 5.5 | 5.5 | 6.5 | 6.1 | 6.9 | 5.6 | 5.1 | 7.1 | 5.4 | 5.4 | 6.2 | 5.7 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 5.3 | 5.7 | 6.3 | |
| United Republic of Tanzania | 1.5 | 3.5 | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.6 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | ||
| Zambia | 4.4 | 1.8 | 1.7 | 3.4 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.7 | 4.4 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 | |||
| Zimbabwe | 12.5 | 1.5 | 6.1 | 6.0 | 6.1 | 5.8 | 2.1 |