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Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018

Figures for 2018, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018 covers 166 countries. Singapore is highest, at 12.9379; Liberia is lowest, at 2.2065. The middle country reads 8.0383. Against 2017, 156 values changed (87 up, 69 down), 10 countries joined.

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Learning-Adjusted Years of School · Data for 2018

HighestSingapore

12.9379

LowestLiberia

2.2065

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018, as published. World Bank Group ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 166 countries · select a heading to sort

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia12.9379
2JapanJPNEastern Asia12.2946
3South KoreaKOREastern Asia12.2477
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.0476
5Hong KongHKGEastern Asia12.0432
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.9596
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia11.7975
8CanadaCANNorthern America11.7846
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.7763
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.7608
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.7091
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.6930
13SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.6151
14PortugalPRTSouthern Europe11.5637
15LatviaLVANorthern Europe11.5574
16PolandPOLEastern Europe11.5178
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.4573
18AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.4092
19DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.3742
20LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe11.3676
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.3358
22New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11.3335
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.2756
24GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.2650
25BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.2404

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore12.9379
  2. 2Japan12.2946
  3. 3South Korea12.2477
  4. 4Finland12.0476
  5. 5Hong Kong12.0432

Lowest

  1. 166Liberia2.2065
  2. 165South Sudan2.5113
  3. 164Niger2.6921
  4. 163Mali2.8603
  5. 162Chad2.8727

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.0383. “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.

  • +10 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 156 in both
  • 87 · 69rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Dominica+ Micronesia+ Grenada+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Palau+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Samoa

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. 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

  • The position is ours

    World Bank Group publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 166 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 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

World Bank Group (2018). Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/learning-adjusted-years-of-school/2018

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07Questions

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest learning-adjusted years of school in Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018?

Singapore, at 12.9379, of the 166 countries in the file.

What year does Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018 cover?

166.

Where can I download Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2018 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020.

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