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Expected Years of Schooling, 1996

1996, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1996 covers 173 countries. Australia is highest, at 19.5117; Niger is lowest, at 2.3685. The middle country reads 10.9326. Against 1995, 172 values changed (155 up, 17 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1996

HighestAustralia

19.5117

LowestNiger

2.3685

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, 1996, 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, 1996: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand19.5117
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.6802
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand16.9728
4NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.9582
5CanadaCANNorthern America16.8334
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.6405
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.5802
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.5232
9PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.9318
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.9256
11SpainESPSouthern Europe15.9231
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe15.8644
13FranceFRAWestern Europe15.8602
14United StatesUSANorthern America15.8460
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe15.8133
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.6475
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.4088
18GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.3528
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.0532
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe14.9681
21JapanJPNEastern Asia14.7485
22ItalyITASouthern Europe14.7226
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia14.6694
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.4589
25BrazilBRASouth America14.3919

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia19.5117
  2. 2Belgium17.6802
  3. 3New Zealand16.9728
  4. 4Netherlands16.9582
  5. 5Canada16.8334

Lowest

  1. 173Niger2.3685
  2. 172Ethiopia2.9277
  3. 171Djibouti2.9650
  4. 170Burkina Faso2.9865
  5. 169Mali3.0642

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.9326. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 172values changed, of 173 in both
  • 155 · 17rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

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 1996.

  • 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 (1996). Expected Years of Schooling, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1996

0634 held

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1996?

Australia, at 19.5117, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1996 cover?

173.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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