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Expected Years of Schooling, 2004

2004, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2004 covers 185 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.43794; Niger is lowest, at 3.30404. The middle country reads 11.93883. Against 2003, 185 values changed (150 up, 35 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2004

HighestAustralia

21.43794

LowestNiger

3.30404

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, 2004, 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, 2004: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.43794
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.88574
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.48071
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.92899
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.59018
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.55906
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.11434
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.95594
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.55472
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.51911
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.44995
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.39171
13SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.38866
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.29900
15ArgentinaARGSouth America16.29898
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.25459
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.16551
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.10834
19ItalyITASouthern Europe16.06415
20SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.02107
21United StatesUSANorthern America15.96799
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean15.93736
23SpainESPSouthern Europe15.93444
24LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.64355
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.57778

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.43794
  2. 2New Zealand18.88574
  3. 3Belgium18.48071
  4. 4Iceland17.92899
  5. 5Ireland17.59018

Lowest

  1. 185Niger3.30404
  2. 184Djibouti4.09236
  3. 183Burkina Faso4.13159
  4. 182Pakistan5.15584
  5. 181Central African Republic5.31698

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.93883. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 150 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Sweden18.55675 → 16.02107−2.53568
  • Finland18.29444 → 17.11434−1.18010
  • Poland15.80754 → 15.17919−0.62835
  • Portugal15.75975 → 15.23720−0.52255
  • Bahrain12.98038 → 12.56598−0.41440

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 2004.

  • 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 (2004). Expected Years of Schooling, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2004

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2004?

Australia, at 21.43794, of the 185 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2004 cover?

185.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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