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Expected Years of Schooling, 2007

2007, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2007 covers 191 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.9315; Niger is lowest, at 3.8024. The middle country reads 12.4156. Against 2006, 190 values changed (154 up, 36 down), 1 country joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2007

HighestAustralia

21.9315

LowestNiger

3.8024

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, 2007, 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 191 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2007: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.9315
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.2519
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.0991
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.9709
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.5425
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.4921
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.1309
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.0825
9SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.0758
10CubaCUBCaribbean17.0397
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.9329
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.8056
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.6862
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.6649
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.6283
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.4335
17ItalyITASouthern Europe16.3871
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.3267
19United StatesUSANorthern America16.2233
20ArgentinaARGSouth America16.1891
21GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.1623
22GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.9950
23SpainESPSouthern Europe15.9116
24United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.9031
25SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.8130

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.9315
  2. 2New Zealand19.2519
  3. 3Belgium19.0991
  4. 4Iceland17.9709
  5. 5Norway17.5425

Lowest

  1. 191Niger3.8024
  2. 190Djibouti4.4670
  3. 189Burkina Faso5.2309
  4. 188Central African Republic5.6225
  5. 187Pakistan6.0057

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.4156. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 190 in both
  • 154 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Antigua and Barbuda

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 2007.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 191 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 (2007). Expected Years of Schooling, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2007

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2007?

Australia, at 21.9315, of the 191 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2007 cover?

191.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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