Developing Countries: Education
(asked on 23rd January 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department for International Development:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January 2020 to Question 3741 on Developing Countries: Education, how much of the £7.08 billion was spent bilaterally in each year from 2009 to 2018; and what the top 10 countries were in which that funding was spent.
Distribution of the £7.08 billion spent bilaterally on education between 2009 and 2018 is listed below:
2009 | £523m |
2010 | £482m |
2011 | £649m |
2012 | £620m |
2013 | £905m |
2014 | £820m |
2015 | £651m |
2016 | £961m |
2017 | £785m |
2018 | £686m |
These amounts include contributions which cannot be disaggregated by country, some of which is channelled through multilateral programmes such as the Global Partnership for Education and Education Cannot Wait.
Top ten country spend over this time period is as below:
1 | Pakistan |
2 | India |
3 | Bangladesh |
4 | Malawi |
5 | China |
6 | Nigeria |
7 | Ghana |
8 | Ethiopia |
9 | West Bank & Gaza Strip |
10 | South Africa |