What percentage of Japan's education expenditure accounts for its budget?
Japanese education points out that the budget ratio is completely different from that of China. The Japanese government's education expenditure accounts for 3.5% of Japan's gross domestic product (GDP), while the proportion borne by Japanese universities and short-term university students is as high as 58.5%, far exceeding the OECD average of 2 1.8%, ranking second only to South Korea in the OECD. Japan's current situation of filling the gap of low government expenditure with high self-expense is fully revealed.