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Mean Years of Schooling, 2010

2010, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2010 covers 191 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.8500; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.1129. The middle country reads 8.3565. Against 2009, 189 values changed (169 up, 20 down), 1 country joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2010

HighestGermany

13.8500

LowestBurkina Faso

1.1129

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, 2010, 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 191 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2010: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.8500
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.5120
3New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.3760
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.3300
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.3200
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.2100
7United StatesUSANorthern America13.0500
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.9200
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.8400
10PalauPLWMicronesia12.6456
11LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.5600
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.5500
13JapanJPNEastern Asia12.5300
14IsraelISRWestern Asia12.5000
15LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.4600
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.4300
17FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.4200
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.3900
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.3840
20RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.3400
21PolandPOLEastern Europe12.3100
22SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.2760
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.2100
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.0600
25AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand12.0300

02In 2010

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.8500
  2. 2Canada13.5120
  3. 3New Zealand13.3760
  4. 4Estonia13.3300
  5. 5Switzerland13.3200

Lowest

  1. 191Burkina Faso1.1129
  2. 190Niger1.5302
  3. 189Guinea1.5800
  4. 188Chad1.8073
  5. 187Afghanistan1.8902

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.3565. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032009 → 2010

Since 2009

What changed between 2009 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 190 in both
  • 169 · 20rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bhutan

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 2010.

  • The position is ours

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

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 191 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 (2010). Mean Years of Schooling, 2010 [data set], describing 2010. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2010

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2010: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2010?

Germany, at 13.8500, of the 191 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2010 describe?

2010.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2010 cover?

191.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2010?

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, 2010 the newest?

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

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