Families spend more on education in Bangladesh than Nepal, Pakistan: Unesco

Families in Bangladesh spend more on children's education in comparison with Nepal and Bangladesh, according to the Unesco Global Education Monitoring Report 2022.

The report says fees and other expenses at private schools are triple those of government institutions and in case of private kindergartens, this amount is almost nine times higher.

The report – prepared in association with Brac – shows that families in Pakistan bear 57% of the cost of the education of their children.

In Nepal, families bear 63% of the costs of pre-primary education and 75% of the costs of technical and vocational education and training.

Households in India spent five times more on private schools than on government schools in 2017 and 2018.

According to the report, about 12% of households in South Asia maintain savings, and 6% borrow to pay for school fees.