Indicator 54 Table 1: Current public expenditures for education, by country:
                      School year 1990-91
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                                                                   Per student /1
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                                                                                      As a percentage of
                As a percentage of GDP /2   Constant 1990-91 U.S. dollars /3            GDP per capita
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                   Pre-   1st-      Higher        Pre-     1st-     Higher         Pre-    1st-      Higher
G-7 countries   primary   12th   education     primary     12th  education      primary    12th   education
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Canada /4            --    4.0         2.1          --   $4,558     $8,556           --    23.2        43.5
France              0.5    3.2         0.7      $2,077    3,375      4,449         11.4    18.6        24.5
Former West Germany 0.2    2.3         0.8       1,302    3,293      5,537          6.7    16.9        28.4
Italy /5            0.3    3.1         0.7       2,058    3,720      4,421         12.1    22.0        26.1
Japan               0.1    2.3         0.2         726    2,624      1,988          3.9    14.2        10.8
United Kingdom      0.2    3.2         0.9       1,943    3,054      9,087         11.9    18.7        55.5
United States       0.3    3.5         1.4       2,228    4,765      8,275          9.9    21.2        36.8
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-- Not available.
1/Enrollment is in all institutions, public and private, and is based on headcount estimates for preprimary 
through 12th grade.  For higher education, it is full-time equivalent enrollment.
2/Gross Domestic Product is Gross National Product less net property income from abroad.
3/Purchasing power parity indices (PPPI) were used to convert other currencies to U.S. dollars.
4/Preprimary expenditures for Canada are grouped with elementary and secondary data.
5/1989 data.

NOTE:  The fiscal year begins in different months in the above countries.  See supplemental note to
Indicator 54 for an explanation of how expenditures were adjusted.  See supplemental tables 54-1 through
54-5 for additional expenditure data and the supplemental note to Indicator 54 for a discussion of this
data.

SOURCE:  Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Center for Educational Research and
Innovation, International Indicators Project, 1993.