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Expected Years of Schooling, 2011

2011, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2011 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.58959; Niger is lowest, at 4.89021. The middle country reads 13.04341. Against 2010, 194 values changed (157 up, 37 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2011

HighestAustralia

22.58959

LowestNiger

4.89021

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, 2011, 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, 2011: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.58959
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.06323
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.50604
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.04888
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.74509
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.35436
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.10992
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17.88152
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.52290
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.46811
11ArgentinaARGSouth America17.26372
12LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.16068
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.11375
14GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.04985
15GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.95152
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.93592
17South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.83992
18SpainESPSouthern Europe16.75148
19EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.63502
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.46814
21United StatesUSANorthern America16.45367
22ItalyITASouthern Europe16.39005
23CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.36347
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.32862
25Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean16.32421

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.58959
  2. 2Monaco20.06323
  3. 3New Zealand19.50604
  4. 4Belgium19.04888
  5. 5Iceland18.74509

Lowest

  1. 194Niger4.89021
  2. 193Djibouti4.96653
  3. 192South Sudan5.11361
  4. 191Pakistan6.03669
  5. 190Central African Republic6.20998

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.04341. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 194values changed, of 194 in both
  • 157 · 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 2011.

  • 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 (2011). Expected Years of Schooling, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2011

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2011?

Australia, at 22.58959, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2011 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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