Financial aid in 2022 from governments to households and students in the EU averaged €533 per pupil for upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education and €1,766 for tertiary education.
Data from the EU’s statistics agency Eurostat shows that the highest values of financial aid for tertiary education per student were registered in Denmark (€8 024), Ireland (€5,692) and Sweden (€4,948), while the lowest were in Greece (€20), Croatia (€97) and Czechia (€115).
When it comes to upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education, the highest values of financial aid were attributed by the Netherlands (€1,790), Sweden (€1,741) and Denmark (€1,644). On the other hand, financial aid was the lowest in Croatia (€7), Poland (€16) and Hungary (€76).
Among EU countries, the level of financial aid to households and students was higher for tertiary education than for upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education, except for Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia and Slovenia.
Statistics explained article on education expenditure statistics, Eurostat
