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Mean Years of Schooling, 2000

2000, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2000 covers 179 countries. United States is highest, at 12.960; Niger is lowest, at 1.161. The middle country reads 7.464. Against 1999, 159 values changed (152 up, 7 down), 20 countries joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2000

HighestUnited States

12.960

LowestNiger

1.161

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, 2000, 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 179 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2000: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America12.960
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand12.803
3CanadaCANNorthern America12.486
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.475
5GermanyDEUWestern Europe12.420
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe12.180
7JapanJPNEastern Asia12.085
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.081
9PalauPLWMicronesia12.064
10RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.059
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia11.806
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.790
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe11.737
14LatviaLVANorthern Europe11.471
15SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.447
16FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.418
17AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.285
18PolandPOLEastern Europe11.243
19LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe11.150
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.106
21BahamasBHSCaribbean11.040
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe10.988
23LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe10.948
24TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia10.919
25SamoaWSMPolynesia10.846

02In 2000

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States12.960
  2. 2New Zealand12.803
  3. 3Canada12.486
  4. 4Denmark12.475
  5. 5Germany12.420

Lowest

  1. 179Niger1.161
  2. 178Mali1.184
  3. 177Afghanistan1.264
  4. 176Chad1.280
  5. 175Yemen1.337

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.464. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031999 → 2000

Since 1999

What changed between 1999 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −0countries joined / left
  • 159values changed, of 159 in both
  • 152 · 7rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Comoros+ Cabo Verde+ Dominica+ Ethiopia+ Micronesia+ Georgia+ Equatorial Guinea+ Kiribati+ Maldives+ Nauru+ Oman+ Palau+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Timor-Leste+ Uzbekistan+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 2000.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 179 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 (2000). Mean Years of Schooling, 2000 [data set], describing 2000. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2000

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2000: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2000?

United States, at 12.960, of the 179 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2000 describe?

2000.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2000 cover?

179.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2000?

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, 2000 the newest?

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

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