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Expected Years of Schooling, 2017

2017, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2017 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 21.9510; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.6348. The middle country reads 13.5328. Against 2016, 191 values changed (131 up, 60 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2017

HighestAustralia

21.9510

LowestSouth Sudan

5.6348

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.9510
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.3403
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.7610
4SeychellesSYCEastern Africa19.6941
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.3747
6GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.0332
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.9217
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.8642
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.8243
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.7396
11TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.6726
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.4668
13Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.4070
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.4039
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.0597
16ArgentinaARGSouth America17.8430
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.4801
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.4727
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.4667
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.9899
21TongaTONPolynesia16.9676
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.6781
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.6764
24United StatesUSANorthern America16.6716
25ChileCHLSouth America16.5335

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.9510
  2. 2Monaco21.3403
  3. 3Belgium19.7610
  4. 4Seychelles19.6941
  5. 5Finland19.3747

Lowest

  1. 194South Sudan5.6348
  2. 193Djibouti5.7158
  3. 192Niger6.7000
  4. 191Central African Republic6.8541
  5. 190Pakistan7.0150

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.5328. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 191values changed, of 194 in both
  • 131 · 60rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 2017.

  • 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 (2017). Expected Years of Schooling, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2017

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2017?

Australia, at 21.9510, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2017 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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