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Expected Years of Schooling, 2001

2001, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2001 covers 184 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.9444; Niger is lowest, at 2.7990. The middle country reads 11.6052. Against 2000, 184 values changed (162 up, 22 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2001

HighestAustralia

20.9444

LowestNiger

2.7990

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, 2001, 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, 2001: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.9444
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.6844
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.3099
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.1684
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.9814
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.0502
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.0314
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.8370
9IrelandIRLNorthern Europe16.8269
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.6025
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.5472
12ArgentinaARGSouth America16.3058
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.2350
14LibyaLBYNorthern Africa16.0515
15United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.0324
16SpainESPSouthern Europe15.9228
17SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe15.7920
18GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.7156
19PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.7102
20CanadaCANNorthern America15.6795
21EstoniaESTNorthern Europe15.6577
22South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.6373
23San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe15.6139
24United StatesUSANorthern America15.5477
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.4751

02In 2001

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.9444
  2. 2Sweden18.6844
  3. 3Belgium18.3099
  4. 4New Zealand18.1684
  5. 5Finland17.9814

Lowest

  1. 184Niger2.7990
  2. 183Djibouti3.4321
  3. 182Burkina Faso3.4516
  4. 181Burundi4.6169
  5. 180Mali4.6433

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.6052. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 162 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Norway17.4275 → 17.0314−0.3961
  • Nepal8.5802 → 8.1907−0.3895
  • Nigeria8.0458 → 7.7274−0.3184
  • Ghana7.1725 → 6.8629−0.3095
  • Qatar12.1279 → 11.8256−0.3023

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 2001.

  • 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 (2001). Expected Years of Schooling, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2001

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2001?

Australia, at 20.9444, of the 184 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2001 cover?

184.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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