Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.
Since the governmental spending on education is calculated as per cent the GDP the countries standing out in this map are the economically most active countries with China and the United States leading here by far. The relative data, meaning the per cent of education expenditure of the GDP tells a different story: Here Cuba leads with 12 per cent before the Solomon Island with 10 and Swaziland with 8.6 per cent. The first developed country is Denmark on 4th place with 8.5 per cent of GDP. The lowest education expenditure rate can be found in South Sudan, with less than 1 per cent of GDP.
