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Expected Years of Schooling, 1999

1999, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 1999 covers 174 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.6153; Niger is lowest, at 2.6268. The middle country reads 11.3770. Against 1998, 172 values changed (145 up, 27 down), 1 country joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 1999

HighestAustralia

20.6153

LowestNiger

2.6268

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, 1999, 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 174 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 1999: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.6153
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.8115
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.6902
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.6034
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.2700
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.0981
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe16.7710
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.7581
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.4301
10IrelandIRLNorthern Europe16.3253
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.3170
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.0917
13LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.8887
14CanadaCANNorthern America15.8080
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.8036
16SpainESPSouthern Europe15.7281
17FranceFRAWestern Europe15.7231
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.6607
19United StatesUSANorthern America15.5913
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.5695
21South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.3026
22ArgentinaARGSouth America15.1733
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.1579
24ItalyITASouthern Europe15.0948
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.9796

02In 1999

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.6153
  2. 2Sweden18.8115
  3. 3New Zealand17.6902
  4. 4Belgium17.6034
  5. 5Finland17.2700

Lowest

  1. 174Niger2.6268
  2. 173Djibouti3.2458
  3. 172Burkina Faso3.2841
  4. 171Ethiopia3.8973
  5. 170Mali4.1002

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.3770. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031998 → 1999

Since 1998

What changed between 1998 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 172values changed, of 173 in both
  • 145 · 27rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Liberia

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 1999.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 174 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 (1999). Expected Years of Schooling, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/1999

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 1999?

Australia, at 20.6153, of the 174 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 1999 cover?

174.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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