Education share of public spending in Ecuador

Education made up 15.5% of government spending in Ecuador in 2025. The value for 2025 is the highest in the series, which starts in 1984.

Measure: Education spending as a share of total government expenditure Unit: % of total government expenditure Data: 1984 to 2025 Source: UNESCO UIS
Ecuador, 2025 15.5% % of total government expenditure
Change from 2024 +5.8percentage points 2024: 9.7%

Education share of public spending in Ecuador over time

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% of total government expenditure. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Education spending as a share of total government expenditure (% of total government expenditure), 2009 to 2025
Period Ecuador
2025 15.5%
2024 9.7%
2023 9.7%
2022 9.3%
2021 9.8%
2020 10.6%
2019 10.7%
2015 11.6%
2014 11.3%
2013 10.5%
2012 10.8%
2011 12.0%
2010 13.0%
2009 13.2%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +5.8 percentage points from 9.7% in 2024.
  • Since 2012, when it was 10.8%, the figure has changed by +4.7 percentage points.

Source and dates

Original producer
UNESCO UIS
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Dataset or series code
XGOVEXP.IMF · dataset details · view at source
Observation period
1984 to 2025 for Ecuador
Provider update
Not stated by the provider
Retrieved
9 November 2026
Published here
9 November 2026
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org