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Expected Years of Schooling, 2006

2006, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2006 covers 190 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.767; Niger is lowest, at 3.674. The middle country reads 12.225. Against 2005, 190 values changed (153 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2006

HighestAustralia

21.767

LowestNiger

3.674

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, 2006, 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, 2006: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.767
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.188
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.054
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.129
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.531
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.449
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.176
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.099
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.036
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.891
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.646
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.593
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.552
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.480
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.476
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.457
17LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.429
18ItalyITASouthern Europe16.314
19ArgentinaARGSouth America16.174
20United StatesUSANorthern America16.166
21GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.087
22CubaCUBCaribbean16.061
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.033
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.961
25SpainESPSouthern Europe15.931

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.767
  2. 2New Zealand19.188
  3. 3Belgium19.054
  4. 4Iceland18.129
  5. 5Norway17.531

Lowest

  1. 190Niger3.674
  2. 189Djibouti4.342
  3. 188Burkina Faso4.779
  4. 187Central African Republic5.521
  5. 186Pakistan5.626

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.225. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 190 in both
  • 153 · 37rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

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 2006.

  • 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 (2006). Expected Years of Schooling, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2006

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2006?

Australia, at 21.767, of the 190 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2006 cover?

190.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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