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Expected Years of Schooling, 1990

1990, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1990 covers 170 countries. Australia is highest, at 17.4329; Mali is lowest, at 1.9421. The middle country reads 10.6340.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1990

HighestAustralia

17.4329

LowestMali

1.9421

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Expected Years of Schooling, 1990, as published. UNDP Human Development Report Office ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 170 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 1990: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.4329
2CanadaCANNorthern America16.6897
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.4078
4United StatesUSANorthern America15.6005
5LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.1761
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe15.0528
7GrenadaGRDCaribbean14.9285
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe14.7745
9New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand14.5910
10GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.3768
11SpainESPSouthern Europe14.3566
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.3133
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe14.1439
14BelgiumBELWestern Europe14.0954
15BrazilBRASouth America14.0951
16NorwayNORNorthern Europe14.0118
17FranceFRAWestern Europe13.9843
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe13.8404
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.6414
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.4963
21JapanJPNEastern Asia13.3988
22ArgentinaARGSouth America13.3925
23BahrainBHRWestern Asia13.2949
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.0800
25GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia13.0307

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia17.4329
  2. 2Canada16.6897
  3. 3Singapore16.4078
  4. 4United States15.6005
  5. 5Libya15.1761

Lowest

  1. 170Mali1.9421
  2. 169Niger1.9645
  3. 168Burkina Faso2.4117
  4. 167Djibouti2.4564
  5. 166Chad2.5349

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.6340. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

03Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2025 release

    Every year in this series comes from UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1990.

  • The position is ours

    UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 170 countries has every column.

04The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNDP Human Development Report Office (1990). Expected Years of Schooling, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1990

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06Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1990?

Australia, at 17.4329, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1990 cover?

170.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1990?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Expected Years of Schooling, 1990 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Expected Years of Schooling, 2023.

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