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Expected Years of Schooling, 2020

2020, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2020 covers 194 countries. Monaco is highest, at 21.3558; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.6348. The middle country reads 13.3065. Against 2019, 188 values changed (114 up, 74 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2020

HighestMonaco

21.3558

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, 2020, 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, 2020: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.3558
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.9394
3GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.4787
4TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.2953
5BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.2753
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.1901
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.0567
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.0486
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.6521
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.6403
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.4138
12Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.4070
13ArgentinaARGSouth America18.3612
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.3110
15IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.2397
16SeychellesSYCEastern Africa17.8510
17TongaTONPolynesia17.5766
18SpainESPSouthern Europe17.4696
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.3780
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.2623
21GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.2260
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia17.0623
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.7874
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.6686
25United StatesUSANorthern America16.6266

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.3558
  2. 2Australia20.9394
  3. 3Greece19.4787
  4. 4Türkiye19.2953
  5. 5Belgium19.2753

Lowest

  1. 194South Sudan5.6348
  2. 193Djibouti6.0905
  3. 192Mali7.0372
  4. 191Central African Republic7.2859
  5. 190Eritrea7.3188

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.3065. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 188values changed, of 194 in both
  • 114 · 74rose · fell
  • 6unchanged

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 2020.

  • 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 (2020). Expected Years of Schooling, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2020

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2020?

Monaco, at 21.3558, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2020 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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