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Mean Years of Schooling, 1993

1993, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 1993 covers 152 countries. United States is highest, at 13.122; Yemen is lowest, at 0.564. The middle country reads 6.483. Against 1992, 152 values changed (147 up, 5 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 1993

HighestUnited States

13.122

LowestYemen

0.564

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Mean Years of Schooling, 1993, 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 152 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 1993: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13.122
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.821
3JapanJPNEastern Asia11.774
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.540
5AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.292
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.290
7CanadaCANNorthern America11.268
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe10.995
9New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand10.934
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe10.858
11LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe10.513
12SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10.503
13AustriaAUTWestern Europe10.471
14EstoniaESTNorthern Europe10.393
15SamoaWSMPolynesia10.338
16BahamasBHSCaribbean10.319
17PolandPOLEastern Europe10.231
18RussiaRUSEastern Europe10.219
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe10.210
20LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.124
21IsraelISRWestern Asia10.099
22ArmeniaARMWestern Asia9.993
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe9.904
24TajikistanTJKCentral Asia9.880
25FinlandFINNorthern Europe9.852

02In 1993

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13.122
  2. 2Norway11.821
  3. 3Japan11.774
  4. 4Denmark11.540
  5. 5Australia11.292

Lowest

  1. 152Yemen0.564
  2. 151Niger0.848
  3. 150Mali0.957
  4. 149Afghanistan1.002
  5. 148Guinea1.351

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.483. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031992 → 1993

Since 1992

What changed between 1992 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 152values changed, of 152 in both
  • 147 · 5rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

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 1993.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 152 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 (1993). Mean Years of Schooling, 1993 [data set], describing 1993. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/1993

0634 held

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 1993: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 1993?

United States, at 13.122, of the 152 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 1993 describe?

1993.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 1993 cover?

152.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 1993?

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

Is Mean Years of Schooling, 1993 the newest?

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

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