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Expected Years of Schooling, 1994

1994, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1994 covers 170 countries. Australia is highest, at 17.4309; Niger is lowest, at 2.1964. The middle country reads 10.6345. Against 1993, 170 values changed (138 up, 32 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1994

HighestAustralia

17.4309

LowestNiger

2.1964

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, 1994, 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, 1994: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand17.4309
2NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17.3337
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.0141
4CanadaCANNorthern America16.8873
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand16.6554
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.5626
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.2976
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.2353
9United StatesUSANorthern America15.9580
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.7978
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.7885
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe15.6447
13FranceFRAWestern Europe15.6442
14SpainESPSouthern Europe15.5732
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.4888
16GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.2101
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.0534
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.0432
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14.6593
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe14.6208
21JapanJPNEastern Asia14.5521
22ItalyITASouthern Europe14.3669
23BrazilBRASouth America14.2923
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.2509
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia13.9812

02In 1994

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia17.4309
  2. 2Netherlands17.3337
  3. 3Belgium17.0141
  4. 4Canada16.8873
  5. 5New Zealand16.6554

Lowest

  1. 170Niger2.1964
  2. 169Ethiopia2.2864
  3. 168Mali2.5936
  4. 167Djibouti2.7848
  5. 166Burkina Faso2.7882

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.6345. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031993 → 1994

Since 1993

What changed between 1993 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 138 · 32rose · 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 1994.

  • 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 (1994). Expected Years of Schooling, 1994 [data set], describing 1994. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1994

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1994: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1994?

Australia, at 17.4309, of the 170 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1994 describe?

1994.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1994 cover?

170.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1994?

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, 1994 the newest?

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

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