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Expected Years of Schooling, 2023

2023, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Expected Years of Schooling, 2023 covers 195 countries. Monaco is highest, at 21.687; South Sudan is lowest, at 5.635. The middle country reads 13.336. Against 2022, 35 values changed (18 up, 17 down), the same countries are covered.

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Expected Years of Schooling · Data for 2023

HighestMonaco

21.687

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, 2023, 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 195 countries · select a heading to sort

Expected Years of Schooling, 2023: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.687
2GreeceGRCSouthern Europe20.846
3AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.655
4TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.831
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.494
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.300
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.185
8BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.996
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.991
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.851
11ArgentinaARGSouth America18.831
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.793
13DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.704
14NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.585
15Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.407
16SeychellesSYCEastern Africa18.225
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.830
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.811
19TongaTONPolynesia17.787
20PortugalPRTSouthern Europe17.487
21UruguayURYSouth America17.484
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.477
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.309
24Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia16.949
25ChileCHLSouth America16.912

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Monaco21.687
  2. 2Greece20.846
  3. 3Australia20.655
  4. 4Türkiye19.831
  5. 5Finland19.494

Lowest

  1. 195South Sudan5.635
  2. 194Djibouti6.207
  3. 193Mali7.011
  4. 192Eritrea7.337
  5. 191Syria7.419

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.336. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 35values changed, of 195 in both
  • 18 · 17rose · fell
  • 160unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Belize12.427 → 11.984−0.443
  • Bahrain16.300 → 15.927−0.372
  • Hong Kong17.255 → 16.896−0.359
  • Palau14.418 → 14.067−0.350
  • Cuba14.174 → 13.879−0.295

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 2023.

  • The position is ours

    UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 195 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 (2023). Expected Years of Schooling, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/expected-years-schooling/2023

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07Questions

Expected Years of Schooling, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest expected years of schooling in Expected Years of Schooling, 2023?

Monaco, at 21.687, of the 195 countries in the file.

What year does Expected Years of Schooling, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Expected Years of Schooling, 2023 cover?

195.

Where can I download Expected Years of Schooling, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-10, when it was read from the publisher.

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