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In 2022, financial aid 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. 

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).

Financial aid from government to households and students, 2022 (€ per pupil/student). Lollipop chart. Link to special extraction excel and to datasets below.

Source datasets:  special extraction, educ_uoe_fine02 and educ_uoe_fine10

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. 

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Methodological note

Public financial aid to students refers to direct public assistance to pupils/students in the form of scholarships, public loans and family allowances contingent on student status. This is not a full measure of the level of assistance students may receive as, for instance, students (or their families) may also get financial support indirectly, for example through ancillary services (in other words, student welfare services such as meals, transportation, healthcare or dormitories) or tax reductions.

 

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