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Expected Years of Schooling, 2009

2009, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2009 covers 191 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.261; Niger is lowest, at 4.282. The middle country reads 12.818. Against 2008, 191 values changed (153 up, 38 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2009

HighestAustralia

22.261

LowestNiger

4.282

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, 2009, 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, 2009: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.261
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.379
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.166
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.984
5SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.800
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.493
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.356
8CubaCUBCaribbean17.296
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.188
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.994
11FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.886
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.846
13GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.808
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.724
15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.715
16ArgentinaARGSouth America16.710
17RomaniaROUEastern Europe16.643
18GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.574
19United StatesUSANorthern America16.338
20EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.318
21GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.314
22ItalyITASouthern Europe16.282
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.221
24CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.999
25BarbadosBRBCaribbean15.981

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.261
  2. 2New Zealand19.379
  3. 3Belgium19.166
  4. 4Iceland17.984
  5. 5Singapore17.800

Lowest

  1. 191Niger4.282
  2. 190Djibouti4.717
  3. 189Central African Republic5.826
  4. 188Pakistan6.068
  5. 187Burkina Faso6.131

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.818. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 191values changed, of 191 in both
  • 153 · 38rose · 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 2009.

  • 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 (2009). Expected Years of Schooling, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2009

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2009?

Australia, at 22.261, of the 191 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2009 cover?

191.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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