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Mean Years of Schooling, 1996

1996, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 1996 covers 156 countries. United States is highest, at 13.1000; Yemen is lowest, at 0.8468. The middle country reads 7.0655. Against 1995, 156 values changed (147 up, 9 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 1996

HighestUnited States

13.1000

LowestYemen

0.8468

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, 1996, 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 156 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 1996: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13.1000
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.9329
3JapanJPNEastern Asia11.9070
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.8150
5CanadaCANNorthern America11.7900
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11.7350
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.6162
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.4893
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.3256
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe11.2205
11EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.1425
12TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia10.9437
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.9090
14RussiaRUSEastern Europe10.8885
15LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe10.7857
16AustriaAUTWestern Europe10.7436
17PolandPOLEastern Europe10.7336
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe10.7133
19BahamasBHSCaribbean10.6280
20SamoaWSMPolynesia10.5528
21FinlandFINNorthern Europe10.5231
22SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10.5136
23TajikistanTJKCentral Asia10.3723
24UkraineUKREastern Europe10.3227
25IsraelISRWestern Asia10.3033

02In 1996

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13.1000
  2. 2Norway11.9329
  3. 3Japan11.9070
  4. 4Denmark11.8150
  5. 5Canada11.7900

Lowest

  1. 156Yemen0.8468
  2. 155Niger0.9751
  3. 154Mali1.0624
  4. 153Afghanistan1.1236
  5. 152Djibouti1.2205

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.0655. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031995 → 1996

Since 1995

What changed between 1995 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 156 in both
  • 147 · 9rose · 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 1996.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 156 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 (1996). Mean Years of Schooling, 1996 [data set], describing 1996. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/1996

0634 held

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 1996: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 1996?

United States, at 13.1000, of the 156 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 1996 describe?

1996.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 1996 cover?

156.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 1996?

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, 1996 the newest?

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

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