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Expected Years of Schooling, 2018

2018, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2018 covers 194 countries. Australia is highest, at 20.4285; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.6348. The middle country reads 13.5800. Against 2017, 190 values changed (123 up, 67 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2018

HighestAustralia

20.4285

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.4285
2IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.9786
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.5615
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.4512
5GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.2943
6MonacoMCOWestern Europe19.2461
7SeychellesSYCEastern Africa19.1994
8TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.9746
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.8952
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.7218
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.5005
12Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.4070
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.3342
14New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.3231
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.1451
16ArgentinaARGSouth America17.8578
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.5193
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.4443
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.2393
20TongaTONPolynesia17.1706
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.0419
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.8049
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.7420
24United StatesUSANorthern America16.6429
25ChileCHLSouth America16.6062

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Australia20.4285
  2. 2Ireland19.9786
  3. 3Belgium19.5615
  4. 4Finland19.4512
  5. 5Greece19.2943

Lowest

  1. 194South Sudan5.6348
  2. 193Djibouti5.8407
  3. 192Central African Republic6.9951
  4. 191Niger7.0704
  5. 190Mali7.0894

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.5800. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 194 in both
  • 123 · 67rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

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 2018.

  • 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 (2018). Expected Years of Schooling, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2018

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2018?

Australia, at 20.4285, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2018 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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