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Expected Years of Schooling, 2012

2012, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2012 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.75412; Djibouti is lowest, at 5.09142. The middle country reads 13.21704. Against 2011, 193 values changed (148 up, 45 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2012

HighestAustralia

22.75412

LowestDjibouti

5.09142

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, 2012, 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, 2012: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.75412
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.22698
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.33862
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.17964
5BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.16010
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.67730
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.13201
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17.94064
9NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.45493
10SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.30230
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.24628
12ArgentinaARGSouth America17.23536
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.10630
14GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.02318
15SpainESPSouthern Europe16.98982
16LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.95056
17SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.95047
18Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean16.90348
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.75775
20EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.60737
21GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.54524
22United StatesUSANorthern America16.51126
23CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.35502
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.34262
25AustriaAUTWestern Europe16.30450

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.75412
  2. 2Monaco20.22698
  3. 3New Zealand19.33862
  4. 4Iceland19.17964
  5. 5Belgium19.16010

Lowest

  1. 194Djibouti5.09142
  2. 193Niger5.12135
  3. 192South Sudan5.24390
  4. 191Pakistan6.13920
  5. 190Central African Republic6.19064

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.21704. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 194 in both
  • 148 · 45rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

  • Seychelles12.07451 → 14.02872+1.95421
  • Iran13.95835 → 15.37275+1.41440
  • Panama12.76678 → 13.68775+0.92097
  • Albania14.49334 → 15.18676+0.69342
  • Mauritius13.91995 → 14.59700+0.67705

Fell most

  • Cuba15.49762 → 14.61527−0.88235
  • Romania15.56466 → 14.68936−0.87530
  • Saint Lucia13.54673 → 13.02902−0.51771
  • Oman14.97237 → 14.58851−0.38386
  • Colombia14.50032 → 14.18010−0.32022

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 2012.

  • 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 (2012). Expected Years of Schooling, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2012

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2012?

Australia, at 22.75412, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2012 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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