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Expected Years of Schooling, 2019

2019, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2019 covers 194 countries. Monaco is highest, at 21.4083; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.6348. The middle country reads 13.4620. Against 2018, 189 values changed (118 up, 71 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2019

HighestMonaco

21.4083

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.4083
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.3756
3GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.6476
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.5684
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.4723
6TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.1852
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.1585
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.0431
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa18.6768
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.6201
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.5224
12Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.4070
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.3740
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.2354
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.2350
16ArgentinaARGSouth America18.0864
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.5008
18TongaTONPolynesia17.3736
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.3252
20United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.3211
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.2244
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.9081
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.7412
24ChileCHLSouth America16.6436
25United StatesUSANorthern America16.6355

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.4083
  2. 2Australia21.3756
  3. 3Greece19.6476
  4. 4Belgium19.5684
  5. 5New Zealand19.4723

Lowest

  1. 194South Sudan5.6348
  2. 193Djibouti5.9656
  3. 192Mali7.0633
  4. 191Central African Republic7.1390
  5. 190Eritrea7.3010

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.4620. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 194 in both
  • 118 · 71rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

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 2019.

  • 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 (2019). Expected Years of Schooling, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2019

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2019?

Monaco, at 21.4083, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2019 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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