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Mean Years of Schooling, 2007

2007, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2007 covers 189 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.6800; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 0.9800. The middle country reads 8.0984. Against 2006, 189 values changed (169 up, 20 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2007

HighestGermany

13.6800

LowestBurkina Faso

0.9800

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, 2007, 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, 2007: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.6800
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.3680
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.3340
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.2200
5United StatesUSANorthern America12.9500
6IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.6500
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.6500
8United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe12.5300
9PalauPLWMicronesia12.4713
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.4100
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.4000
12JapanJPNEastern Asia12.3965
13IsraelISRWestern Asia12.3800
14RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.2800
15FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.2800
16SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe12.2731
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.2100
18LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.1700
19LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.1600
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.1400
21PolandPOLEastern Europe12.0500
22NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.9900
23SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe11.7500
24AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.7100
25LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe11.6300

02In 2007

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.6800
  2. 2Canada13.3680
  3. 3New Zealand13.3340
  4. 4Estonia13.2200
  5. 5United States12.9500

Lowest

  1. 189Burkina Faso0.9800
  2. 188Niger1.4353
  3. 187Guinea1.5393
  4. 186Mali1.5560
  5. 185Chad1.6480

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.0984. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032006 → 2007

Since 2006

What changed between 2006 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 189 in both
  • 169 · 20rose · 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 2007.

  • 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 (2007). Mean Years of Schooling, 2007 [data set], describing 2007. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2007

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2007: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2007?

Germany, at 13.6800, of the 189 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2007 describe?

2007.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2007 cover?

189.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2007?

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, 2007 the newest?

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

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