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Expected Years of Schooling, 2015

2015, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2015 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 23.24768; Djibouti is lowest, at 5.46606. The middle country reads 13.39469. Against 2014, 193 values changed (138 up, 55 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2015

HighestAustralia

23.24768

LowestDjibouti

5.46606

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand23.24768
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.72629
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.79196
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.35327
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.31087
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe19.29690
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.94970
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.91157
9Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.40703
10SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.32088
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe18.29533
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.26940
13TürkiyeTURWestern Asia17.78838
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.78302
15ArgentinaARGSouth America17.58466
16SpainESPSouthern Europe17.40424
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.32837
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.27178
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.11218
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.95470
21SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.80488
22GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.77653
23United StatesUSANorthern America16.59604
24South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.57014
25TongaTONPolynesia16.56167

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia23.24768
  2. 2Monaco20.72629
  3. 3Belgium19.79196
  4. 4Iceland19.35327
  5. 5Finland19.31087

Lowest

  1. 194Djibouti5.46606
  2. 193South Sudan5.63477
  3. 192Niger6.16143
  4. 191Central African Republic6.58060
  5. 190Pakistan6.73907

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.39469. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 193values changed, of 194 in both
  • 138 · 55rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Ukraine14.92978 → 13.77067−1.15911
  • Chad7.97065 → 7.42120−0.54945
  • Rwanda11.57287 → 11.08056−0.49231
  • Eritrea7.65594 → 7.23030−0.42564
  • Bolivia15.28294 → 14.88113−0.40181

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 2015.

  • 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 (2015). Expected Years of Schooling, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2015

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2015?

Australia, at 23.24768, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2015 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

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