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Expected Years of Schooling, 2008

2008, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2008 covers 191 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.0960; Niger is lowest, at 4.0394. The middle country reads 12.5684. Against 2007, 191 values changed (147 up, 44 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2008

HighestAustralia

22.0960

LowestNiger

4.0394

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, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.0960
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.3154
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.1373
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.0052
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.6109
6CubaCUBCaribbean17.5238
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.3786
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.2619
9FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.1040
10LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.0985
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.0560
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.8030
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.7366
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.7155
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.6917
16ArgentinaARGSouth America16.3818
17ItalyITASouthern Europe16.3522
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.3224
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.2976
20GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.2845
21United StatesUSANorthern America16.2809
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.2379
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.0538
24SpainESPSouthern Europe15.8737
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.8611

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.0960
  2. 2New Zealand19.3154
  3. 3Belgium19.1373
  4. 4Iceland18.0052
  5. 5Singapore17.6109

Lowest

  1. 191Niger4.0394
  2. 190Djibouti4.5919
  3. 189Burkina Faso5.7044
  4. 188Central African Republic5.7243
  5. 187Pakistan6.0046

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.5684. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 191values changed, of 191 in both
  • 147 · 44rose · 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 2008.

  • 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 (2008). Expected Years of Schooling, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2008

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2008?

Australia, at 22.0960, of the 191 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2008 cover?

191.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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