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Expected Years of Schooling, 1992

1992, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1992 covers 170 countries. Australia is highest, at 17.43193; Niger is lowest, at 2.02418. The middle country reads 10.66570. Against 1991, 170 values changed (123 up, 47 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1992

HighestAustralia

17.43193

LowestNiger

2.02418

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, 1992, 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, 1992: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.43193
2CanadaCANNorthern America17.10577
3SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.48502
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe15.73965
5United StatesUSANorthern America15.72849
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.55964
7BelgiumBELWestern Europe15.44894
8LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.33165
9New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand15.08668
10GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.06865
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe14.94740
12SpainESPSouthern Europe14.79842
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.75525
14FranceFRAWestern Europe14.69910
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe14.64009
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe14.52451
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14.26536
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe14.23006
19BrazilBRASouth America14.19335
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.81080
21JapanJPNEastern Asia13.63419
22ItalyITASouthern Europe13.53210
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe13.40452
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia13.35581
25ArgentinaARGSouth America13.31251

02In 1992

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia17.43193
  2. 2Canada17.10577
  3. 3Singapore16.48502
  4. 4Finland15.73965
  5. 5United States15.72849

Lowest

  1. 170Niger2.02418
  2. 169Mali2.15294
  3. 168Burkina Faso2.58694
  4. 167Djibouti2.61546
  5. 166Ethiopia2.61549

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.66570. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031991 → 1992

Since 1991

What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 123 · 47rose · 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 1992.

  • 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 (1992). Expected Years of Schooling, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1992

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1992: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1992?

Australia, at 17.43193, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1992 describe?

1992.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1992 cover?

170.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1992?

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, 1992 the newest?

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

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