TurkStat: Largest Expenditure Made in Higher Education

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In 2018, a total expenditure of 214 billion 637 million Turkish lira (1 USD = 5.91 TRY) was made with an increase of 21.6 percent compared to the previous year, the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has announced.

When evaluated according to educational levels, education expenditures increased at most in pre-primary education with 27.3 percent and upper secondary education with 24.3 percent in 2018 compared to the previous year.

Expenditure on education as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) was 5.7 percent in 2017 and 5.8 percent in 2018.

Basic indicators on education expenditure, 2011-2018

72.9 percent of education expenditure in Turkey in 2018 was spent by the public sources. The share of education expenditure by households was 20.0 percent.

Public institutions spent 33.2 percent of their total education expenditure (51 billion 050 million lira) for tertiary education and 25.3 percent (38 billion 877 million lira) for upper secondary education. The 43.3 percent of education expenditure (20 billion 527 million lira) spent by private institutions was for upper secondary education and 30.3 percent for tertiary education (14 billion 352 million lira).

While the education expenditure per student in Turkey in 2017 was 8 thousand 111 lira, this amount reached to a total of 9 thousand 790 lira in 2018.

When evaluated according to educational levels, the highest level of education expenditure per student in 2018 was for tertiary education with 16 thousand 248 lira.

The total education expenditure per student was increased by 20.7 percent. The level of education which reached the highest increase in 2018 compared to 2017 about education expenditure by financing source was upper secondary education with 26.2 percent. This was followed by lower secondary schools with 22.7 percent. (RT/VK)