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Expected Years of Schooling, 1998

1998, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1998 covers 173 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.4508; Niger is lowest, at 2.5407. The middle country reads 11.2522. Against 1997, 172 values changed (153 up, 19 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1998

HighestAustralia

20.4508

LowestNiger

2.5407

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.4508
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.5218
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.6290
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.4511
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.9573
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe16.8660
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.7940
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.7188
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe16.4949
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.4704
11PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.1572
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.0200
13CanadaCANNorthern America15.8916
14LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.8079
15SpainESPSouthern Europe15.7697
16FranceFRAWestern Europe15.7620
17DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe15.7416
18United StatesUSANorthern America15.7324
19GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.4969
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.4471
21ItalyITASouthern Europe15.0949
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.0829
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.0135
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.9298
25JapanJPNEastern Asia14.9139

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.4508
  2. 2Sweden18.5218
  3. 3Belgium17.6290
  4. 4New Zealand17.4511
  5. 5Finland16.9573

Lowest

  1. 173Niger2.5407
  2. 172Djibouti3.1527
  3. 171Burkina Faso3.1849
  4. 170Ethiopia3.5741
  5. 169Mali3.7054

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.2522. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 172values changed, of 173 in both
  • 153 · 19rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Ireland13.9887 → 16.4949+2.5062
  • Sweden17.1563 → 18.5218+1.3655
  • Norway16.0662 → 16.8660+0.7998
  • Latvia12.1575 → 12.8752+0.7177
  • Greece13.6907 → 14.3958+0.7051

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 1998.

  • 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 (1998). Expected Years of Schooling, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1998

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1998?

Australia, at 20.4508, of the 173 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1998 cover?

173.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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