Most of the education expenditure in the EU
comes from public funds, amounting to 5% of
GDP.

However, students and their families
together with other private entities provided
12% of the funds of education institutions in
2005.

The level of private funding clearly
distinguishes the EU from the United States,
where 33% of the funding of educational
institutions is private.

But above all, what
distinguishes the two is that while the EU spent
5 657 PPS per pupil/student in 2005, the US
spent 10 661 PPS.

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