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Expected Years of Schooling, 2002

2002, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2002 covers 185 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.109; Niger is lowest, at 2.885. The middle country reads 11.739. Against 2001, 184 values changed (160 up, 24 down), 1 country joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2002

HighestAustralia

21.109

LowestNiger

2.885

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, 2002, 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 185 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2002: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.109
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.557
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.483
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.408
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe18.077
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.560
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.091
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.022
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.877
10ArgentinaARGSouth America16.393
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.307
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.261
13SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.241
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.204
15LibyaLBYNorthern Africa16.134
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.126
17SpainESPSouthern Europe15.970
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe15.948
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.805
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.789
21PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.735
22United StatesUSANorthern America15.688
23ItalyITASouthern Europe15.648
24LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.631
25PolandPOLEastern Europe15.622

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.109
  2. 2Sweden18.557
  3. 3Belgium18.483
  4. 4New Zealand18.408
  5. 5Finland18.077

Lowest

  1. 185Niger2.885
  2. 184Djibouti3.579
  3. 183Burkina Faso3.607
  4. 182Pakistan4.747
  5. 181Mali4.959

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.739. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 184values changed, of 184 in both
  • 160 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Marshall Islands

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 2002.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 185 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 (2002). Expected Years of Schooling, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2002

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2002?

Australia, at 21.109, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2002 cover?

185.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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