What we count
Public education spending from pre-primary through tertiary education in countries covered by global statistics.
Public education spending today
How much public budgets worldwide have spent on education today, from pre-primary to tertiary level, based on UNESCO UIS data.
Continuously calculated
WORLDRelated numbers in context
$ 4,613,926,941military spending today
$ 108,161,506,849official development assistance this year
$ 992,876,712,329foreign direct investment this year
What lies behind this number
Public education spending from pre-primary through tertiary education in countries covered by global statistics.
How the source derives it
UNESCO UIS collects finance and education ministry data and harmonises it into comparable education indicators.
What one number cannot show
The total does not show spending per learner or how evenly funding is distributed between countries.
Source value
The calculation uses the daily value published by UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5 for 2022. It is the latest value published by this source.
How the value is used: The running number shows the share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight.
Daily value11,855,137,340USD
- Period
- 2022
- Status
- published
- Primary data source
- UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5
How the number is calculated
We distribute the latest published daily reference value evenly across today's elapsed time.
Formula used
V(t) = Vday × elapsed share of the dayDaily reference value11,855,137,3402022 · USD
Average per hour493,964,056even daily distribution
Calculation interval0.1 sContinuously calculated
Source value
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5 reports the latest published value used by the calculation for 2022.
Elapsed share
We calculate the share corresponding to time elapsed since midnight. The counter restarts at midnight in the visitor's device time zone.
Smooth display
The result is recalculated on screen every 0.1 seconds.
Where the data comes from
The source value comes from UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5 and refers to 2022. We use it because it is the latest value published by this source. UNESCO UIS collects finance and education ministry data and harmonises it into comparable education indicators.
Latest published and verified source value
Primary data source
UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5
Source edition: 2025
Open source ↗- Publisher
- UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report 2024/5
- Data period
- 2022
- Verified
- 12 August 2026
- Coverage
- Worldwide
- Use
- Even time-based calculation