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Expected Years of Schooling, 2021

2021, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2021 covers 194 countries. Monaco is highest, at 21.522; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.635. The middle country reads 13.303. Against 2020, 179 values changed (127 up, 52 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2021

HighestMonaco

21.522

LowestSouth Sudan

5.635

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, 2021, 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, 2021: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.522
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.080
3GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.774
4TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.685
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.682
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.367
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.229
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.107
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe19.037
10ArgentinaARGSouth America18.980
11BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.946
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.774
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.638
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.585
15Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.407
16SeychellesSYCEastern Africa18.225
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.809
18TongaTONPolynesia17.787
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.668
20Hong KongHKGEastern Asia17.453
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.407
22UruguayURYSouth America17.352
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.343
24SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.903
25PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.821

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.522
  2. 2Australia21.080
  3. 3Greece19.774
  4. 4Türkiye19.685
  5. 5New Zealand19.682

Lowest

  1. 194South Sudan5.635
  2. 193Djibouti6.129
  3. 192Mali7.011
  4. 191Eritrea7.337
  5. 190Syria7.419

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.303. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 179values changed, of 194 in both
  • 127 · 52rose · fell
  • 15unchanged

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 2021.

  • 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 (2021). Expected Years of Schooling, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2021

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2021?

Monaco, at 21.522, of the 194 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2021 cover?

194.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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