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Mean Years of Schooling, 2011

2011, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2011 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.93000; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.15714. The middle country reads 8.44807. Against 2010, 187 values changed (168 up, 19 down), 1 country joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2011

HighestGermany

13.93000

LowestBurkina Faso

1.15714

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, 2011, 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 192 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 2011: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.93000
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.56000
3EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.40000
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.39000
5SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.33000
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.19000
7United StatesUSANorthern America13.10000
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.01000
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.86000
10PalauPLWMicronesia12.70376
=11LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.61000
=11NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.61000
13IsraelISRWestern Asia12.60000
14LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.57000
15PolandPOLEastern Europe12.55000
16JapanJPNEastern Asia12.54400
17SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.50000
=18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.47000
=18DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.47000
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.46000
21GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.44200
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.34636
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.28000
24SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.21000
25AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand12.12000

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.93000
  2. 2Canada13.56000
  3. 3Estonia13.40000
  4. 4New Zealand13.39000
  5. 5Switzerland13.33000

Lowest

  1. 192Burkina Faso1.15714
  2. 191Niger1.58512
  3. 190Guinea1.65250
  4. 189Chad1.85455
  5. 188Afghanistan1.93704

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.44807. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +1 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 191 in both
  • 168 · 19rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Ireland11.57000 → 11.00000−0.57000
  • Belize10.49000 → 10.17669−0.31331
  • Chile9.85000 → 9.54000−0.31000
  • Algeria5.81667 → 5.58000−0.23667
  • El Salvador6.34000 → 6.21000−0.13000
+ Marshall Islands

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 2011.

  • 187 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 12.61000. 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 192 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 (2011). Mean Years of Schooling, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2011

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2011?

Germany, at 13.93000, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2011 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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