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Mean Years of Schooling, 2004

2004, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2004 covers 183 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.8000; Mali is lowest, at 1.3251. The middle country reads 7.8268. Against 2003, 180 values changed (166 up, 14 down), 2 countries joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2004

HighestGermany

13.8000

LowestMali

1.3251

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, 2004, 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 183 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2004: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.8000
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.2200
3CanadaCANNorthern America13.0560
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.9200
5EstoniaESTNorthern Europe12.8600
6United StatesUSANorthern America12.8200
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.3234
8PalauPLWMicronesia12.2969
9JapanJPNEastern Asia12.2630
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.2300
11RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.2200
12SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.1800
13FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.1350
14LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.1300
15GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.0360
16SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.8300
17NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.7900
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.7427
19United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.7161
20PolandPOLEastern Europe11.6900
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe11.6857
22LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe11.5143
23AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.5100
24AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.4693
25BahamasBHSCaribbean11.3680

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.8000
  2. 2New Zealand13.2200
  3. 3Canada13.0560
  4. 4Denmark12.9200
  5. 5Estonia12.8600

Lowest

  1. 183Mali1.3251
  2. 182Niger1.3297
  3. 181Senegal1.4474
  4. 180Afghanistan1.4700
  5. 179Chad1.4800

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.8268. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +2 / −0countries joined / left
  • 180values changed, of 181 in both
  • 166 · 14rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Palestine+ Suriname

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 2004.

  • 182 distinct values among 183

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 8.6400. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 183 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 (2004). Mean Years of Schooling, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2004

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2004?

Germany, at 13.8000, of the 183 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2004 cover?

183.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2004?

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, 2004 the newest?

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

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