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Expected Years of Schooling, 1991

1991, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1991 covers 170 countries. Australia is highest, at 17.432; Niger is lowest, at 1.994. The middle country reads 10.725. Against 1990, 170 values changed (127 up, 43 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1991

HighestAustralia

17.432

LowestNiger

1.994

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.432
2CanadaCANNorthern America16.970
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.446
4United StatesUSANorthern America15.533
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe15.271
6LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.254
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.233
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe15.013
9GrenadaGRDCaribbean14.998
10New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand14.648
11SpainESPSouthern Europe14.615
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.565
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.478
14FranceFRAWestern Europe14.469
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe14.332
16BelgiumBELWestern Europe14.179
17BrazilBRASouth America14.144
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe13.935
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.919
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.605
21JapanJPNEastern Asia13.530
22ArgentinaARGSouth America13.352
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe13.215
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia13.196
25ItalyITASouthern Europe13.159

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia17.432
  2. 2Canada16.970
  3. 3Singapore16.446
  4. 4United States15.533
  5. 5Finland15.271

Lowest

  1. 170Niger1.994
  2. 169Mali2.015
  3. 168Burkina Faso2.524
  4. 167Djibouti2.535
  5. 166Chad2.706

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.725. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 127 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

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 1991.

  • 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.

05The 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 (1991). Expected Years of Schooling, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1991

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1991?

Australia, at 17.432, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1991 cover?

170.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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