Sanja Knezevic/Open Society Foundations
Monitoring SDG 4: Education finance
All GEM Report resources related to education financing
What does the GEM Report do on education financing?
- Since 2002: Annual monitoring of levels.
- Since 2015: Regular costing exercise to calculate the funding gap for achieving education targets.
- Since 2021: Annual collaborative reporting on with the World Bank and UIS.
- Since 2021: Profiling on education
GEM Report
Latest figures
Total education spending by governments, households and donors globally has increased steadily, but this has not led to significant increases in allocations per child. Moreover, funding in LICs is insufficient to overcome their learning deficits.
Globally, total from donor countries reached a record high of US$16.6 billion in 2022. Nevertheless, the share of total aid allocated to education is falling year on year.
There remains an annual finance gap of almost $100 billion per year for countries to reach their education targets by 2030.
Families meanwhile spend significant portions of their funds on education: cover one-quarter of all education expenditures.
Statistics
Resources
| SDG 4 Targets | GEM Report monitoring chapters | Most recent statistics | GEM Report Blogs |
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| TARGET 4.B: SCHOLARSHIPS | |||
| FINANCE |
One in three countries did not reach either of the finance benchmarks set in the Education 2030 Framework for Action
Policy focuses
| 2017/8 Report | 2019 Report | 2020 Report | 2021/2 Report | 2023 Report |
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