Expenditure for Formal Education, Slovenia, 2016

Another decline in public expenditure for formal education; in 2016, 4.8% of GDP was spent.

Public expenditure for formal education in 2016 amounted to EUR 1,938 million; as a share of GDP it was 0.1 of a percentage point lower than in the previous year.

15 December 2017 at 10:30
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In 2016, public expenditure for formal education in Slovenia amounted to EUR 1,938 million

Public expenditure for formal education in 2016 amounted to EUR 1,938 million or 4.8% of GDP. 95% of total public expenditure was allocated directly to educational institutions, while 5% was public transfers to households and other private entities (EUR 92 million). The highest share of public expenditure for education was spent for basic education (44%), followed by tertiary education (20%).

Total, public, private and international expenditure on educational institutions in 2016 amounted to 5.3% of GDP

In 2016 EUR 2,158 million was spent for educational institutions. 86% of expenditure for educational institutions was public expenditure, 13% was private expenditure and 1% was funds from international sources.

In the structure of total expenditure on educational institutions expenditure for preschool education (1st and 2nd age period in kindergartens) represents 20%, for basic education 44%, for upper secondary education 17%, and for tertiary education 19%.

Educational institutions spent EUR 2.2 billion on current and capital expenditure in 2016

Current expenditure on educational institutions in 2016 amounted to EUR 2,077 million or 94% of total expenditure (of which 76% was expenditure for wages and salaries); the remaining 6% (EUR 133 million) was capital expenditure. In the structure of spending of educational institutions capital expenditure was 2 percentage points lower than in the previous year.

Structure of total expenditure for educational institutions by level of education, Slovenia, 2016

Public expenditure for formal education, Slovenia

Levels of education	2015			2016
Levels of education	1.000 EUR	%	% of GDP¹⁾	1.000 EUR	%	% of GDP¹⁾
Total²⁾	1,907,483	100.0	4.9	1,938,311	100.0	4.8
Preschool	330,487	17.3	0.9	327,969	16.9	0.8
1st age period	115,671	6.1	0.3	117,299	6.1	0.3
2nd age period	214,817	11.3	0.6	210,670	10.9	0.5
Basic	829,240	43.5	2.1	855,390	44.1	2.1
Upper secondary	367,236	19.3	0.9	371,162	19.1	0.9
Tertiary	379,006	19.9	1.0	382,624	19.7	0.9
short-cycle higher vocational	13,880	0.7	0.0	10,754	0.6	0.0
higher	365,126	19.1	0.9	371,870	19.2	0.9
Not allocated	1,514	0.1	0.0	1,167	0.1	0.0

1) Public expenditure for formal education as percentage of GDP is calculated on the basis of the last available data on GDP (First Release; 31 August 2017; http://www.stat.si/StatWeb/en/News/Index/6824).

2) The total does not add up due to rounding.

Source: SURS

Expenditure for educational institutions, Slovenia, 2016

Levels of education	Funds
	total	public expenditure	private expenditure	founds from international agencies
	1.000 EUR
Total¹⁾	2,158,234	1,846,523	290,105	21,607
Preschool	436,715	327,969	108,701	46
1st age period	156,194	117,299	38,879	16
2nd age period	280,522	210,670	69,822	29
Basic	941,687	855,373	85,614	700
Upper secondary	360,888	321,012	37,454	2,422
Tertiary	417,777	341,002	58,336	18,439
short-cycle higher vocational	12,809	10,754	1,883	172
higher	404,968	330,249	56,453	18,267
Not allocated	1,167	1,167	...	...

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1) The total does not add up due to rounding.

Source: SURS

Expenditure in educational institutions, Slovenia, 2016

Levels of education	Purpose of consumption
	total	current expenditure	capital expenditure
	1.000 EUR
Total¹⁾	2,209,563	2,076,630	132,934
Preschool	427,149	406,625	20,523
1st age period	152,767	145,426	7,340
2nd age period	274,382	261,199	13,183
Basic	964,086	901,797	62,290
Upper secondary	366,275	347,483	18,792
Tertiary	450,886	419,569	31,317
short-cycle higher vocational	13,417	13,135	282
higher	437,469	406,434	31,035
Not allocated	1,167	1,156	11