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Germany's spending on education, research and science has risen steadily over the past few years.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, 325.6 billion euros flowed into these areas in 2019 - 4.4 percent more than in the previous year.
According to the information, the sum makes up 9.4 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP).
However, the funds are distributed quite differently between daycare centers, schools, universities and research operations:
According to the Federal Office,
expenditures for
schools and the school-related area
in public and private sponsorship amounted to around a third of the total.
This concerns costs for general schools as well as vocational courses and in-company training in the dual system.
A total of
105.8 billion euros was
invested
in this field
-
3.1 percent of GDP
.
According to statisticians' calculations, the sum has risen again and again in recent years.
The share of GDP, on the other hand, has been around the three percent mark for more than 15 years.
Critics complain that other countries such as Norway spend a higher proportion of GDP on education.
Germany spent
34.4 billion euros
on
day-care centers,
investing
1 percent of GDP
in the education of the youngest.
According to the data from the Federal Statistical Office, this value has increased slightly in recent years.
In 2005 it was still 0.6 percent.
Other numbers:
42.5 billion euros
were spent on so-called tertiary educational institutions such as
universities
.
Other areas such as
further education, youth work or after-school care centers
accounted for a total of
23 billion euros in
public and private spending.
The expenditures for
educational
funding such as the student loan amounted to
13.7 billion euros
.
For
research and development
companies and other research institutions spent
90.6 billion euros
on.
Around a third of the money comes from private coffers
As the statisticians from Wiesbaden report, so far only figures from 2018 are available that break down where the funds for the entire area of education, research and science come from.
In the year mentioned, the public budgets financed almost two thirds of the expenditure (federal government: 11.4 percent, federal states: 38.7 percent, municipalities: 12.8 percent).
More than a third of the money came from the private sector, for example from companies and private households.
2 percent were taken over from abroad.
In relation to the pure expenditure on education, i.e. mainly day care and school, the distribution was somewhat different.
Here the public budgets shouldered around four fifths of the expenditure, one fifth was privately financed.
On the other hand, two thirds of the expenditure on research and development came from private coffers.
This distribution has been fairly constant over the past few years.
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