Regionally, the proportion of public education expenditure in the gross national product (GNP) is the highest in North America and Western Europe, with an average of 5.7%, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean and sub-Saharan Africa with 5.0%, Central and Eastern Europe with 4.9%, East Asia and the Pacific with 4.7%, Arab countries with 4.5%, South Asia and West Asia with 3.6% and Central Asia with 3.2%.

EU countries: Denmark 8.28%, Sweden 6.97%, Finland 6.3 1%, developing countries Brazil 4.4%, Mexico 5.3%.

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All countries in the world attach great importance to education and the government's investment in education. Among the world economic powers, the gap between China and other countries still exists, but it is narrowing.

It is enough to show that the China municipal government attaches great importance to education, speeds up making up the historical debts of education investment, and strives to do a good job in education, an important livelihood cause, to the satisfaction of thousands of households.

Education investment is the material basis of developing intelligence and education, an important factor of economic and social development, and the key to the success or failure of modernization. In the long run, education investment is the most favorable investment. Nowadays, all countries in the world attach great importance to investment in education.

With the deepening of the reform of the education system, compared with the behavior of the government, it is also a more common investment mode to invest in education with the family as the unit. Education investment can't rely solely on government investment, and families can do a lot.

In the development of a country, the investment in education is generally increasing. With the development of national economy and society, on the one hand, the demand for all kinds of specialized talents and skilled workers is increasing, and the requirements for national cultural level are getting higher and higher, which requires education to adapt to it; On the other hand, the gross national income and per capita national income are also increasing, and it is possible to undertake the growing investment in education.

In China, education investment consists of two parts: recurrent education expenditure and capital construction expenditure. The recurrent expenditure on education includes the salaries of teaching and administrative staff, employee welfare, people's grants and scholarships, official expenses, equipment purchase expenses, repair expenses, etc. Expenditure on education capital construction is used for school building construction and large-scale equipment purchase.

There are many sources of education investment in China, including the central financial allocation, the financial allocation of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government and counties (banners), the educational funds of enterprises owned by the whole people and collectively owned enterprises and institutions, and a few educational expenses paid by private schools and educated individuals or families.