世界银行、联合国儿童基金会（UNICEF）和联合国教科文组织（UNESCO）预计，在2015年前达到UPE的目标所需的花费将比发展中国家每年用于初等教育的约820亿美元高出65亿至350亿美元。
The World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO have estimated that achieving UPE by 2015 will entail annual expenditures of between $6.5 billion and $35 billion, on top of the approximately $82 billion that developing countries spend each year on primary education.