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Mean Years of Schooling, 2002

2002, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2002 covers 180 countries. New Zealand is highest, at 13.1200; Niger is lowest, at 1.2453. The middle country reads 7.6941. Against 2001, 178 values changed (166 up, 12 down), 1 country joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2002

HighestNew Zealand

13.1200

LowestNiger

1.2453

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, 2002, 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 180 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2002: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.1200
2GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.1099
3United StatesUSANorthern America12.8900
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.8050
5CanadaCANNorthern America12.7920
6EstoniaESTNorthern Europe12.5200
7PalauPLWMicronesia12.1807
8RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.1800
9JapanJPNEastern Asia12.1740
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.1557
11IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.0303
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia11.9200
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe11.8662
14SwedenSWENorthern Europe11.8133
15LatviaLVANorthern Europe11.8005
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.7900
17PolandPOLEastern Europe11.4500
18AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.3977
19CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.3653
20LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe11.3321
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe11.3170
22AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.2879
23United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.2082
24BahamasBHSCaribbean11.2040
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.1654

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1New Zealand13.1200
  2. 2Germany13.1099
  3. 3United States12.8900
  4. 4Denmark12.8050
  5. 5Canada12.7920

Lowest

  1. 180Niger1.2453
  2. 179Mali1.2547
  3. 178Afghanistan1.3670
  4. 177Chad1.3801
  5. 176Guinea1.4714

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.6941. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 178values changed, of 179 in both
  • 166 · 12rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Grenada

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 2002.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 180 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 (2002). Mean Years of Schooling, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2002

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2002?

New Zealand, at 13.1200, of the 180 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2002 cover?

180.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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