The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, or Unesco has praised India for spending up to 4.6 per cent of its GDP on education.

• As per the latest series of reports from the Unesco Institute for Statistics on world education statistics, between 2015 and 2024, India allocated approximately 4.1 per cent to 4.6 per cent of its GDP to education.
• With this, India remained aligned with international benchmarks set by ‘Education 2030 Framework for Action’, which recommends that countries allocate 4-6 per cent of their GDP to education.
• During the same period, the expenditure on education by India’s government has fluctuated between 13.5 per cent and 17.2, the reports said.
• This range, however, aligns with the Education 2030 target, that encourages governments to allocate 15-20 per cent of their public expenditure to education.
• In 2022, India’s education expenditure was only surpassed in the region by Bhutan (7.5%), Kazakhstan (7.2%), Maldives (4.7%), Tajikistan (5.7%), and Uzbekistan (5.2%). India’s spending is also notably higher than other Asian giants like China and Japan.