How Much Do Countries Spend on Education, USD per student, PPP (purchasing power parity) converted

Remember, just because the money is spent, it doesn't mean it is spent well. I'm sure a lot of the US dollars are fed into sports programs and other spending, and not directly towards efforts that would benefit the most students or workers.

Yeah, also salaries are wildly different between these countries. This is a really not apples to apples
- This is PPP (purchasing power parity), so that gap should be corrected at least partially
- You're right, teacher salaries are lower in the US than many of these countries.
I'd wager that most school districts in the US have significantly more money spent on transportation than in other countries as well
For example, Austria is notorious for producing desastrous results in any metric (standardized tests, teen Analphabeten...) in relation to its spending on education.
The Hungarian numbers are inflated by religious schools, secular schools only would be in the very end, also we're forcing very old and inefficient teaching methods on our teachers, so old people can jizz their pants seeing kids not having free time to play outside (which they also complain about of course), and we also have a massive corruption problem (renovations, etc., cost way more they should because we need to make the prime minister's childhood friends billionaires).

I'd much rather look a simple sorted table or a bar chart.

For me the country outlines don't add anything of value and they aren't too scale either with arbitrary rotations mixed in. Spending is on a strictly one dimensional scale yet the graphic implies some concentric (2-dimensional) pattern.

I agree. Standard bars are boring, and it's not bad to liven them up, but there are a lot of different ideas layered one over another with a little connection to data representation or increasing readability (also heatmaps with strict color gradations, false grouping, distance from center breaks at the bottom level mixing different colors). But nailing visuals without trying things out is impossible. OP got feedback they can put to use in the future.

Critically checking the graph after each step could've make it easier even for them. Had it become better in some way with X? If no, let's scrap it and try something different.
- Just to make things clear, this post is not OC, I did not create the infographic
But it sorta looks like a human brain if you squint.

Gotta give it up for the UK and US proving how institutionally corrupt their public services are!

I think with the US, it comes down to that number being an average and how big the spread is between states. North East and West Pacific states spend WAY more than South Eastern, but it averages out to something seemingly reasonable.

Oh good, another thing Americans spend more than almost anyone else on and get worse results.

USA is huge and education is largely decentralized. Results are ALL over the place.
I'd like to see the America stat divided up further to represent red vs blue states educational spending.

Yeah, data can be beautiful - but is ugly if presented misleadingly. Only very little can be concluded from this 'graph' (without sources btw), but it is presented as if the inner west are the great core of enlightenment, spiraling out to the 'dumber' nations. The level of knowledge excellence is obviously related to the amount of dollu spent - which is nonsense. My equally valid opinion is that Western liberal/Capitalist education is exceedingly inefficient, and only optimized for wage-slavery. Notice how all the super 'edumecated' citizens from the west have been so easily propagandized to think that Russia is the bad guy. ..China is the bad guy ..socialism is bad ..communism evil ..Capitalism GREAT! We are the best!! ..and so on and so on with similar infantile propaganda from the Capitalist elite. The average intellects in these 'educated' western nations is Embarrassing, and misinformation from constant propaganda doesn't help much i'm afraid..

without sources btw

The source is the OECD report, mentioned in the article linked in the body of the post: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/education/education-at-a-glance-2023_e13bef63-en;jsessionid=Nwj9hwVlYhHg_5CpjLm00wyws3HlwUqKzRpJLk2T.ip-10-240-5-115

In this article, we’re going to delve into some of the data from the OECD’s report.

Israel's outline is sketchy to say the least...

Finland is way lower than I expected and they apparently have the best primary and secondary education systems outside of the East Asian countries

Part of that is because private education there is not a thing. So some of the funds that would go to for-profit education at the expense of public schools instead goes into taxes to more efficiently fund education.

Primary to tertiary? Does that mean it includes what college students through grad school spend themselves? Because that would shift perception of this a lot.

Edit: The original data does include public funding and private funding:

Every year, governments, private companies, students and their families make decisions about the financial resources invested in education.

They do break it out, but I can't tell if the graphic is using the total or just the public funding.

So this graphic might just be: Americans spend a stupid amount on college.

Am surprised to see Australia rates highly. 40% of students don't know it takes about a year for Earth to orbit the Sun.

I would guess that half the population doesn't understand compound interest.

I would also guess only 5% could describe the scientific method, 1% could describe the use of normal distributions.

I would guess that 20% of locally born Australians would not know how to use punctuation or grammar for clear expression.

Is this a worldwide trend? The rise of flerfers suggests it is.

I'm from Hungary, can comfirm, ~~it's shit here~~ it could be better.

LMAO Greece isn't even there

Why is it in thousands of $? Should be measured in % of GDP

The % of GDP is available in the link in the post body