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Mean Years of Schooling, 2005

2005, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2005 covers 189 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.700; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.344. The middle country reads 7.780. Against 2004, 182 values changed (164 up, 18 down), 6 countries joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2005

HighestGermany

13.700

LowestBurkina Faso

1.344

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, 2005, 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 189 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2005: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.700
2New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.270
3CanadaCANNorthern America13.188
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.030
=5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.830
=5United StatesUSANorthern America12.830
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.470
8PalauPLWMicronesia12.355
9JapanJPNEastern Asia12.307
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.280
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.260
12LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.250
13RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.240
14FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.180
15GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.094
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe11.970
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe11.931
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe11.870
19PolandPOLEastern Europe11.810
20NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.790
21SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.680
22LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe11.605
23AustriaAUTWestern Europe11.560
24AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.550
25BahamasBHSCaribbean11.450

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.700
  2. 2New Zealand13.270
  3. 3Canada13.188
  4. 4Estonia13.030
  5. 5Denmarkshared12.830

Lowest

  1. 189Burkina Faso1.344
  2. 188Mali1.360
  3. 187Niger1.372
  4. 186Senegal1.380
  5. 185Guinea1.512

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.780. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +6 / −0countries joined / left
  • 182values changed, of 183 in both
  • 164 · 18rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Eritrea+ Guinea-Bissau+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Lebanon+ Vanuatu

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 2005.

  • 187 distinct values among 189

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 12.830. 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 189 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 (2005). Mean Years of Schooling, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2005

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2005?

Germany, at 13.700, of the 189 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2005 cover?

189.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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