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Figure 8.24 Provincial per capita education expenditure and provincial per capita GDP, by province, 2012

10/01/2015

Plotting the provinces by their respective per capita spending on education and per capita GDP reveals a general pattern in which eastern provinces spent more than western provinces. However, the relationship is not linear. Some western provinces with a low GDP per capita may have similar levels of per capita expenditure on education as some eastern provinces. For example, although Tibet and Qinghai had a much lower per capita GDP, their education expenditures reached almost RMB 3,000 per capita, among the highest of all provinces and at the same level of Beijing.

Source: National Bureau of Statistics, China Statistical Yearbook, 2013 (GDP); Ministry of Education, Statistical Communiqué on the 2012 National Education Expenditure, 2013 (education expenditure)

Figure 8.24
Plotting the provinces by their respective per capita spending on education and per capita GDP reveals a general pattern in which eastern provinces spent more than western provinces. However, the relationship is not linear. Some western provinces with a low GDP per capita may have similar levels of per capita expenditure on education as some eastern provinces. For example, although Tibet and Qinghai had a much lower per capita GDP, their education expenditures reached almost RMB 3,000 per capita, among the highest of all provinces and at the same level of Beijing.

上一篇:Figure 8.23 Teachers’ qualification, 2013
下一篇:Figure 8.25 Government expenditure on education and its percentage of GDP, 1992-2012

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