Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2013

Expected Years of Schooling, 2013

2013, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2013 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 22.9186; Djibouti is lowest, at 5.2163. The middle country reads 13.2170. Against 2012, 193 values changed (143 up, 50 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2013

HighestAustralia

22.9186

LowestDjibouti

5.2163

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.9186
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.3921
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.7613
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.3510
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.3261
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe19.1731
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.1712
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.2529
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.1840
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.0502
11SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.6833
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.6715
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.6560
14Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean17.4828
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.4077
16ArgentinaARGSouth America17.2340
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.1638
18SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia17.1365
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.0948
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.8570
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.8563
22TürkiyeTURWestern Asia16.7964
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.6845
24GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.6223
25PolandPOLEastern Europe16.5932

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.9186
  2. 2Monaco20.3921
  3. 3Iceland19.7613
  4. 4Belgium19.3510
  5. 5Finland19.3261

Lowest

  1. 194Djibouti5.2163
  2. 193South Sudan5.3742
  3. 192Niger5.4680
  4. 191Pakistan6.1920
  5. 190Central African Republic6.3180

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.2170. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 194 in both
  • 143 · 50rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Syria12.2568 → 8.3967−3.8601
  • Rwanda12.1073 → 9.6854−2.4218
  • Andorra12.7381 → 11.5037−1.2344
  • Cuba14.6153 → 13.9876−0.6276
  • Saint Lucia13.0290 → 12.5222−0.5068

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 2013.

  • 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 (2013). Expected Years of Schooling, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2013

0634 held

Other years

07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2013?

Australia, at 22.9186, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2013 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2013?

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, 2013 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.