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Digest of Education Statistics
1999 Tables and Figures All Years of Tables and Figures Most Recent Issue of the Digest

Table 31  Total expenditures of educational institutions related to the grossdomestic product, by level of institution: 1959-60 to 1998-99

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        |         |           |Total expenditures for education in millions of current dollars
        |         |           |_______________________________________________________________
        |         |           | All educational   | All elementary and |  All colleges and
        |  Gross  |           |  institutions     | secondary schools  |   universities
  Year  |domestic |  School   |___________________|____________________|______________________
        | product |   year    |          |  As a  |           |  As a  |           |   As a
        |   (in   |           |          |percent |           |percent |           | percent
        |billions)|           |  Amount  |of gross|  Amount   |of gross|  Amount   | of gross
        |         |           |          |domestic|           |domestic|           | domestic
        |         |           |          |product |           |product |           | product
________|_________|___________|__________|________|___________|________|___________|__________
   1    |    2    |     3     |     4    |     5  |     6     |     7  |     8     |    9
________|_________|___________|__________|________|___________|________|___________|__________
1959 ...|  $507.2 | 1959-60   |  $23,860 |    4.7 |   $16,713 |    3.3 |    $7,147 |      1.4
1961 ...|   544.8 | 1961-62   |   28,503 |    5.2 |    19,673 |    3.6 |     8,830 |      1.6
1963 ...|   617.4 | 1963-64   |   34,440 |    5.6 |    22,825 |    3.7 |    11,615 |      1.9
1965 ...|   719.1 | 1965-66   |   43,682 |    6.1 |    28,048 |    3.9 |    15,634 |      2.2
1967 ...|   833.6 | 1967-68   |   55,652 |    6.7 |    35,077 |    4.2 |    20,575 |      2.5
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1969 ...|   982.2 | 1969-70   |   68,459 |    7.0 |    43,183 |    4.4 |    25,276 |      2.6
1970 ...| 1,035.6 | 1970-71   |   75,741 |    7.3 |    48,200 |    4.7 |    27,541 |      2.7
1971 ...| 1,125.4 | 1971-72   |   80,672 |    7.2 |    50,950 |    4.5 |    29,722 |      2.6
1972 ...| 1,237.3 | 1972-73   |   86,875 |    7.0 |    54,952 |    4.4 |    31,923 |      2.6
1973 ...| 1,382.6 | 1973-74   |   95,396 |    6.9 |    60,370 |    4.4 |    35,026 |      2.5
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1974 ...| 1,496.9 | 1974-75   |  108,664 |    7.3 |    68,846 |    4.6 |    39,818 |      2.7
1975 ...| 1,630.6 | 1975-76   |  118,706 |    7.3 |    75,101 |    4.6 |    43,605 |      2.7
1976 ...| 1,819.0 | 1976-77   |  126,417 |    6.9 |    79,194 |    4.4 |    47,223 |      2.6
1977 ...| 2,026.9 | 1977-78   |  137,042 |    6.8 |    86,544 |    4.3 |    50,498 |      2.5
1978 ...| 2,291.4 | 1978-79   |  148,308 |    6.5 |    93,012 |    4.1 |    55,296 |      2.4
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1979 ...| 2,557.5 | 1979-80   |  165,627 |    6.5 |   103,162 |    4.0 |    62,465 |      2.4
1980 ...| 2,784.2 | 1980-81   |  182,849 |    6.6 |   112,325 |    4.0 |    70,524 |      2.5
1981 ...| 3,115.9 | 1981-82   |  197,801 |    6.3 |   120,486 |    3.9 |    77,315 |      2.5
1982 ...| 3,242.1 | 1982-83   |  212,081 |    6.5 |   128,725 |    4.0 |    83,356 |      2.6
1983 ...| 3,514.5 | 1983-84   |  228,597 |    6.5 |   139,000 |    4.0 |    89,597 |      2.5
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1984 ...| 3,902.4 | 1984-85   |  247,657 |    6.3 |   149,400 |    3.8 |    98,257 |      2.5
1985 ...| 4,180.7 | 1985-86   |  269,485 |    6.4 |   161,800 |    3.9 |   107,685 |      2.6
1986 ...| 4,422.2 | 1986-87   |  291,974 |    6.6 |   175,200 |    4.0 |   116,774 |      2.6
1987 ...| 4,692.3 | 1987-88   |  313,375 |    6.7 |   187,999 |    4.0 |   125,376 |      2.7
1988 ...| 5,049.6 | 1988-89   |  346,883 |    6.9 |   209,377 |    4.1 |   137,506 |      2.7
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1989 ...| 5,438.7 | 1989-90   |  381,525 |    7.0 |   230,970 |    4.2 |   150,555 |      2.8
1990 ...| 5,743.8 | 1990-91   |  412,652 |    7.2 |   248,930 |    4.3 |   163,722 |      2.9
1991 ...| 5,916.7 | 1991-92   |  432,987 |    7.3 |   261,255 |    4.4 |   171,732 |      2.9
1992 ...| 6,244.4 | 1992-93   |  456,070 |    7.3 |   274,335 |    4.4 |   181,735 |      2.9
1993 ...| 6,558.1 | 1993-94   |  477,237 |    7.3 |   287,507 |    4.4 |   189,730 |      2.9
        |         |           |          |        |           |        |           |
1994 ...| 6,947.0 | 1994-95   |  503,925 |    7.3 |   302,400 |    4.4 |   201,525 |      2.9
1995 ...| 7,269.6 | 1995-96   |  529,596 |    7.3 |   318,246 |    4.4 |   211,350 |      2.9
1996 ...| 7,661.6 | 1996-97\1\|  562,431 |    7.3 |   338,931 |    4.4 |   223,500 |      2.9
1997 ...| 8,110.9 | 1997-98\2\|  591,200 |    7.3 |   356,500 |    4.4 |   234,700 |      2.9
1998 ...| 8,466.2 | 1998-99\2\|  618,600 |    7.3 |   371,900 |    4.4 |   246,700 |      2.9
________|_________|___________|__________|________|___________|________|___________|__________

\1\Preliminary data for elementary and secondary shcools and estimates data for colleges and universities.
\2\Estimated. NOTE.
--Total expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools include current expenditures, interest on school debt, and capital outlay. Data for private elementary and secondary schools are estimated. Total expenditures for colleges and universities include current-fund expenditures and additions to plant value. Excludes expenditures of noncollegiate postsecondary institutions. Data for 1995-96 and later years are for 4-year and 2-year degree-granting institutions that were eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some data revised from previously published figures. Because of rounding, details may not add to totals.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Statistics of State School Systems; Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education; Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education; Common Core of Data survey; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Financial Statistics of Institutions of Higher Education" survey, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) "Finance" survey, and unpublished data; Council of Economic Advisers, Economic Indicators; and National Education Association, Estimates of School Statistics, various years. (This table was prepared July 1999.)


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