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Expected Years of Schooling, 2005

2005, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2005 covers 190 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.6025; Niger is lowest, at 3.5291. The middle country reads 12.0352. Against 2004, 185 values changed (150 up, 35 down), 5 countries joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2005

HighestAustralia

21.6025

LowestNiger

3.5291

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, 2005, 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 190 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2005: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.6025
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.1248
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.8353
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.1416
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.5599
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.4366
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.1905
8SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.9958
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.7797
10LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.7775
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.7478
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.6134
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.5216
14EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.4914
15NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.4329
16LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.4051
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.3613
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.3247
19ItalyITASouthern Europe16.1909
20United StatesUSANorthern America16.1081
21ArgentinaARGSouth America16.0185
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.0120
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.0023
24SpainESPSouthern Europe15.9817
25BoliviaBOLSouth America15.7756

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.6025
  2. 2New Zealand19.1248
  3. 3Belgium18.8353
  4. 4Iceland18.1416
  5. 5Ireland17.5599

Lowest

  1. 190Niger3.5291
  2. 189Djibouti4.2172
  3. 188Burkina Faso4.5005
  4. 187Central African Republic5.4188
  5. 186Pakistan5.4630

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.0352. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +5 / −0countries joined / left
  • 185values changed, of 185 in both
  • 150 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Kiribati+ Moldova+ North Korea+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Turkmenistan

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 2005.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 190 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 (2005). Expected Years of Schooling, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2005

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2005?

Australia, at 21.6025, of the 190 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2005 cover?

190.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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