Data · Education & health
Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure): Vietnam, 2008–2022
- Latest (2022)
- 15.4 %
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
General government expenditure on education (current, capital, and transfers) is expressed as a percentage of total general government expenditure on all sectors (including health, education, social services, etc.). It includes expenditure funded by transfers from international sources to government. General government usually refers to local, regional and central governments.
What the series shows
The series runs from 2008 to 2022 (15 years of data). It moved from 18.0 to 15.4 %, a change of -14.2%. The highest value was 18.8 in 2012 and the lowest 14.5 in 2020. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (%) |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 15.4 |
| 2021 | 14.8 |
| 2020 | 14.5 |
| 2019 | 15.6 |
| 2018 | 16.1 |
| 2017 | 15.5 |
| 2016 | 15.6 |
| 2015 | 15.0 |
| 2014 | 16.8 |
| 2013 | 18.5 |
| 2012 | 18.8 |
| 2011 | 17.8 |
| 2010 | 17.1 |
| 2009 | 15.2 |
| 2008 | 18.0 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2022 | 15.4 |
| Thailand | 2025 | 12.6 |
| Indonesia | 2025 | 10.6 |
| Malaysia | 2023 | 14.1 |
| Philippines | 2025 | 15.2 |
| Singapore | 2025 | 12.0 |
| Cambodia | 2025 | 11.6 |
| Laos | 2024 | 8.2 |
| Myanmar | 2019 | 9.7 |
| China | 2023 | 11.9 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Government expenditure on education, total (% of government expenditure), Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.XPD.TOTL.GB.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name se_xpd_totl_gb_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.