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Education Spending Today (est.)

A projection of how much the world has spent on education since midnight UTC, ticking at the most recent complete-year total -- about $5.8 trillion in 2022, UNESCO’s global figure -- spread evenly across the year. That is roughly $15.9 billion a day, and a little over twice the world’s entire military bill on the counter beside it: the planet spends far more teaching people than on arms, though still less on schooling than on health. This is total education spending -- governments, households and donors -- not just government money: families cover about a quarter of the cost worldwide, and more than 70% in the poorest countries. And it is starkly uneven -- high-income countries account for roughly 64% of it, while less than half a percent is spent in low-income countries, even though both have about the same number of school-age children. Like the other counters here it is a yearly average made visible, not a live ledger. Where the world can read is one tap away in Atlas.