Expenditures per student

Expenditures per student in public and private institutions of higher education, in current U.S. dollars, converted using Purchasing Power Parities (PPPs), by country: 1995 and 1998

NOTE: The United Kingdom includes England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the producers’ value of the gross outputs of resident producers,
including distributive trades and transport, less the value of the purchasers’ intermediate consumption plus import duties. GDP is expressed in local money (in millions). Prior to 1997, there
was no category called “post-secondary, nontertiary” education in the international classification. For 1995, expenditures for this type of education were included in expenditures for
secondary education in all other countries presented here except the United States. With the establishment of “post-secondary, nontertiary” education as a separate category in 1997, other
countries continued to include expenditures for this category in expenditures for secondary education in data for 1998. Expenditures figures for the United States include expenditures for
post-secondary, nontertiary education in expenditures for higher education for 1995 and 1998. Comparisons among countries within a given year are thus more appropriate than comparisons
over time.
SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Education at a Glance, 2001, Table B 1.1; Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Education at a

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