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Expected Years of Schooling, 2010

2010, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2010 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.4251; Niger is lowest, at 4.6096. The middle country reads 12.9146. Against 2009, 191 values changed (156 up, 35 down), 3 countries joined.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2010

HighestAustralia

22.4251

LowestNiger

4.6096

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, 2010, 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 194 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2010: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.4251
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe19.9008
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.4425
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.2177
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.5227
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.9318
7SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.6339
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.5281
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.1230
10SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.0800
11ArgentinaARGSouth America17.0288
12FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.0231
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17.0153
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.8903
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.8799
16GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.8633
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.7948
18EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.5085
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.4592
20SpainESPSouthern Europe16.4028
21United StatesUSANorthern America16.3961
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.3910
23CubaCUBCaribbean16.2704
24ItalyITASouthern Europe16.2338
25CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.2160

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.4251
  2. 2Monaco19.9008
  3. 3New Zealand19.4425
  4. 4Belgium19.2177
  5. 5Iceland18.5227

Lowest

  1. 194Niger4.6096
  2. 193Djibouti4.8417
  3. 192South Sudan4.9833
  4. 191Central African Republic6.0181
  5. 190Pakistan6.0523

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.9146. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −0countries joined / left
  • 191values changed, of 191 in both
  • 156 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Cuba17.2964 → 16.2704−1.0260
  • Jamaica13.7054 → 13.2521−0.4533
  • Romania16.6427 → 16.1970−0.4457
  • Jordan12.8806 → 12.5594−0.3212
  • Saint Lucia13.5615 → 13.2493−0.3122
+ Monaco+ South Sudan+ Seychelles

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 2010.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 194 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 (2010). Expected Years of Schooling, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2010

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2010: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2010?

Australia, at 22.4251, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2010 describe?

2010.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2010 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2010?

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, 2010 the newest?

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

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