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Expected Years of Schooling, 1995

1995, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1995 covers 173 countries. Australia is highest, at 18.9700; Niger is lowest, at 2.2824. The middle country reads 10.8135. Against 1994, 170 values changed (144 up, 26 down), 3 countries joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1995

HighestAustralia

18.9700

LowestNiger

2.2824

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, 1995, 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 173 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 1995: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand18.9700
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.4026
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand16.9464
4CanadaCANNorthern America16.8726
5NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.8147
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.6015
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.4172
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.1077
9United StatesUSANorthern America15.9443
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.8529
11FranceFRAWestern Europe15.7727
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe15.7528
13SpainESPSouthern Europe15.7524
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.6637
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.5680
16PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.4171
17GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.2813
18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.1812
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe14.8562
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe14.8277
21JapanJPNEastern Asia14.6658
22ItalyITASouthern Europe14.5440
23SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.3924
24BrazilBRASouth America14.3420
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia14.2735

02In 1995

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia18.9700
  2. 2Belgium17.4026
  3. 3New Zealand16.9464
  4. 4Canada16.8726
  5. 5Netherlands16.8147

Lowest

  1. 173Niger2.2824
  2. 172Ethiopia2.5319
  3. 171Mali2.8273
  4. 170Djibouti2.8735
  5. 169Burkina Faso2.8874

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.8135. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031994 → 1995

Since 1994

What changed between 1994 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 170values changed, of 170 in both
  • 144 · 26rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Eritrea+ Maldives+ Rwanda

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 1995.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 173 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 (1995). Expected Years of Schooling, 1995 [data set], describing 1995. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1995

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1995: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1995?

Australia, at 18.9700, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1995 describe?

1995.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1995 cover?

173.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1995?

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, 1995 the newest?

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

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