What is the total government spending for education? How much does it vary in the developing and developed world?

Spending for education amounted to 4.9% of global GNI in 2007, increasing slightly from 4.6% in 1999. Spending for education represents one of the three major government expenses. Although not a rule for all the countries, it seems that military spending leads in the list of how governments around the world allocate their budgets, with health and education ccoming second and third respectively. For example, the USA allocated around 19.3% of its government budget on military expenses, 19.3% more on health and 17.1% for education. In the UAE 45.7% of the government budget goes for military spending, 8.7% for health and 22.5% for education. India China and Russia follow the same pattern with more of the government budget allocated for military expenses, second comes education and third health.In the EU, however, things differentiate to some degree. In Germany, for example,