Mexico spends $2,933 USD per primary school student: last place in the OECD

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Mexico spends $2,933USD per primary school student: last place in the OECD

Annual spending per primary school student: Luxembourg $25,584USD, United States $15,270USD, OECD average $11,902USD, Lithuania $8,716USD, Croatia $8,199USD. Mexico: $2,933USD. Last place. Countries with lower GDP per capita, such as Colombia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Hungary and Romania, spend more per child.

And the trend is downward: spending per student fell 10.5% between 2015 and 2022 while the OECD average rose. Behind every previous section of this series there is one common cause, and this is it. The cuts fall on what builds capacity: schools, teachers, materials, evaluation.

With $2,933USD a year, what would you expect your child to receive?

The data

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Item	Value
Luxembourg	$25,584USD
United States	$15,270USD
OECD average	$11,902USD
Lithuania	$8,716USD
Croatia	$8,199USD
Mexico	$2,933USD

Source and method

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Annual spending per primary school student,USD PPP, 2021. Source: OECD, Education at a Glance 2023–2025; Mexicanos Primero, analysis of Education at a Glance (2025).

Document. P1-01 · The Reality of Public Education in Mexico (July 2026), by SuperLeads. Every figure keeps its official or international source; when the source gives a range, the range is shown here. Methodology.

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Mexico spends $2,933 USD per primary school student: last place in the OECD. Original source: OECD, Education at a Glance 2023–2025; Mexicanos Primero, analysis of Education at a Glance (2025). Compiled by the SuperLeads Observatory (https://observatorio.superleads.mx/en/data/last-in-the-oecd-in-spending-per-student/).

SuperLeads. (2026, October 30). Mexico spends $2,933 USD per primary school student: last place in the OECD. SuperLeads Observatory on Admissions and Private Education. https://observatorio.superleads.mx/en/data/last-in-the-oecd-in-spending-per-student/

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