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Expected Years of Schooling, 2000

2000, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2000 covers 184 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.780; Niger is lowest, at 2.713. The middle country reads 11.477. Against 1999, 174 values changed (146 up, 28 down), 10 countries joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2000

HighestAustralia

20.780

LowestNiger

2.713

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, 2000, 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 184 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2000: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.780
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.693
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.929
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe17.771
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.683
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.427
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.024
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.797
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe16.717
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.540
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.203
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.163
13United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.995
14LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.970
15SpainESPSouthern Europe15.865
16CanadaCANNorthern America15.759
17ArgentinaARGSouth America15.688
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.685
19GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.642
20San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.640
21South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.536
22United StatesUSANorthern America15.408
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.233
24EstoniaESTNorthern Europe15.163
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.083

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.780
  2. 2Sweden18.693
  3. 3New Zealand17.929
  4. 4Belgium17.771
  5. 5Finland17.683

Lowest

  1. 184Niger2.713
  2. 183Djibouti3.339
  3. 182Burkina Faso3.368
  4. 181Ethiopia4.218
  5. 180Mali4.328

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.477. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −0countries joined / left
  • 174values changed, of 174 in both
  • 146 · 28rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • France15.723 → 14.937−0.786
  • Malawi11.187 → 10.680−0.507
  • Jamaica10.501 → 10.103−0.398
  • Israel14.681 → 14.314−0.367
  • Qatar12.430 → 12.128−0.302
+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Cabo Verde+ Dominica+ Micronesia+ Equatorial Guinea+ Liechtenstein+ Montenegro+ Nauru+ San Marino+ Timor-Leste

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 2000.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 184 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 (2000). Expected Years of Schooling, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2000

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2000?

Australia, at 20.780, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2000 cover?

184.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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