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Mean Years of Schooling, 1998

1998, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 1998 covers 156 countries. United States is highest, at 13.0300; Niger is lowest, at 1.0680. The middle country reads 7.2851. Against 1997, 156 values changed (149 up, 7 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 1998

HighestUnited States

13.0300

LowestNiger

1.0680

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, 1998, 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, 1998: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13.0300
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand12.2690
3DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.1450
4CanadaCANNorthern America12.1380
5GermanyDEUWestern Europe12.0180
6NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.0071
7JapanJPNEastern Asia11.9960
8EstoniaESTNorthern Europe11.6613
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.6397
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe11.4789
11RussiaRUSEastern Europe11.4736
12AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.3055
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe11.1900
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.0800
15PolandPOLEastern Europe10.9882
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe10.9708
17LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe10.9679
18TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia10.9312
19AustriaAUTWestern Europe10.9250
20BahamasBHSCaribbean10.8340
21SamoaWSMPolynesia10.6982
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe10.6107
23TajikistanTJKCentral Asia10.5861
24UkraineUKREastern Europe10.5826
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe10.5797

02In 1998

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13.0300
  2. 2New Zealand12.2690
  3. 3Denmark12.1450
  4. 4Canada12.1380
  5. 5Germany12.0180

Lowest

  1. 156Niger1.0680
  2. 155Yemen1.0919
  3. 154Mali1.1234
  4. 153Afghanistan1.1938
  5. 152Djibouti1.3558

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.2851. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031997 → 1998

Since 1997

What changed between 1997 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 156values changed, of 156 in both
  • 149 · 7rose · 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 1998.

  • 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 (1998). Mean Years of Schooling, 1998 [data set], describing 1998. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/1998

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 1998: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 1998?

United States, at 13.0300, of the 156 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 1998 describe?

1998.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 1998 cover?

156.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 1998?

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, 1998 the newest?

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

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