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Expected Years of Schooling, 1997

1997, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1997 covers 173 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.2863; Niger is lowest, at 2.4546. The middle country reads 11.0606. Against 1996, 172 values changed (152 up, 20 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1997

HighestAustralia

20.2863

LowestNiger

2.4546

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, 1997, 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, 1997: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.2863
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.6546
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.2120
4SwedenSWENorthern Europe17.1563
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.7199
6SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.6796
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.5700
8CanadaCANNorthern America16.3625
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.3598
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.0662
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.0445
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe15.9484
13SpainESPSouthern Europe15.8615
14FranceFRAWestern Europe15.8194
15United StatesUSANorthern America15.7892
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.7275
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.5752
18GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.4247
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.2641
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.2501
21AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.0007
22ItalyITASouthern Europe14.9887
23JapanJPNEastern Asia14.8312
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.6944
25BrazilBRASouth America14.4420

02In 1997

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.2863
  2. 2Belgium17.6546
  3. 3New Zealand17.2120
  4. 4Sweden17.1563
  5. 5Finland16.7199

Lowest

  1. 173Niger2.4546
  2. 172Djibouti3.0595
  3. 171Burkina Faso3.0857
  4. 170Ethiopia3.2509
  5. 169Mali3.4149

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.0606. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031996 → 1997

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 172values changed, of 173 in both
  • 152 · 20rose · 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 1997.

  • 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 (1997). Expected Years of Schooling, 1997 [data set], describing 1997. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1997

0634 held

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1997: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1997?

Australia, at 20.2863, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1997 describe?

1997.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1997 cover?

173.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1997?

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, 1997 the newest?

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

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