Among these expenditures, those related to the development of childcare services increased most strongly, from 0.13 to 0.95% of GDP over the period considered. While the focus of government investment is on childcare services for children aged 0-5, as observed in the Nordic countries or France, the level of expenditure remains much lower in Korea than in these countries, but above the OECD average. Such spending is comprehensively recorded in Nordic countries, but in some other (often federal) countries it may not be fully captured by the OECD social expenditure data, a) Data for Poland refer to 2012 and for Australia, Israel, Korea, and New Zealand to 2014. Data for all other countries refer to 2013.