Strategic Roadmap and Financial Performance
Strong Market Fundamentals | Education
In recent years, an increasingly favourable operating environment coupled with the region's solid demographic profile,
has seen the GCC's K-12 and higher education sector represent an increasingly attractive investment opportunity for
international investors and school operators.
Growing Population Across the GCC
GCC Population (1) | mn
Growing Student-Age Population
Under 15 GCC Population in GCC(2) | mn
63.6
62.1
60.8
59.4
58.1
56.8
16.4
16.1
15.7
15.4
15.0
14.7
2018
2019e
2020f
2021f
2022f
2023f
2018
2019e
2020f
2021f
2022f
2023f
Increasing Government Resources Dedicated to Education
GCC Government Education Budget, 2019 (3) | % of total spending
GCC Enrolment Trends
Total Enrolments Progression | '000
17.5%
GCC Average 13%
17.1%
12.2% 12.4%
15.0%
10.4%
11.0%
9.3%
Bahrain Kuwait Oman
Qatar
KSA
UAE
US
UK
1.7% CAGR
4.1% CAGR
1,646
979
1,282
7,940
8,322
10,134
387
227
344
753
900
786
288
1,112
946
247
362
2012
2018
2023f
Bahrain Kuwait Oman
Qatar KSA UAE
(1) Source: IMF, World Bank. (2) Source: IMF, World Bank. (3) Source: Ministry of Finance & Ministry of Education of respective countries. (4) Source: UNESCO, Statistics authorities of respective
countries, GFH Analysis
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