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Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020

Figures for 2020, as World Bank Group published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020 covers 172 countries. Singapore is highest, at 12.8133; Liberia is lowest, at 2.2065. The middle country reads 7.9414. Against 2018, 146 values changed (68 up, 78 down), 6 countries joined.

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Learning-Adjusted Years of School · Data for 2020

HighestSingapore

12.8133

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, 2020, 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 172 countries · select a heading to sort

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020: every country, as published by World Bank Group.
derived
1SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia12.8133
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia11.8868
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.7388
4JapanJPNEastern Asia11.7351
5CanadaCANNorthern America11.7240
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.7193
7South KoreaKOREastern Asia11.6840
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe11.5948
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.5809
10MacauMACEastern Asia11.5738
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.5390
12United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.5380
13New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11.3902
14PolandPOLEastern Europe11.3742
15SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.3709
16PortugalPRTSouthern Europe11.3101
17FranceFRAWestern Europe11.2687
18NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.2339
19AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.2225
20BelgiumBELWestern Europe11.1833
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.1165
22DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.0988
23GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.0331
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.9788
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe10.9752

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Singapore12.8133
  2. 2Hong Kong11.8868
  3. 3Finland11.7388
  4. 4Japan11.7351
  5. 5Canada11.7240

Lowest

  1. 172Liberia2.2065
  2. 171South Sudan2.5113
  3. 170Mali2.5784
  4. 169Niger2.6825
  5. 168Central African Republic2.6962

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.9414. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2020

Since 2018

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

  • +6 / −0countries joined / left
  • 146values changed, of 166 in both
  • 68 · 78rose · fell
  • 20unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Belarus+ Brunei+ Bhutan+ Central African Republic+ Fiji+ Uzbekistan

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 172 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 (2020). Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/learning-adjusted-years-of-school/2020

064 held

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07Questions

Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest learning-adjusted years of school in Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020?

Singapore, at 12.8133, of the 172 countries in the file.

What year does Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020 cover?

172.

Where can I download Learning-Adjusted Years of School, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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