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Mean Years of Schooling, 2012

2012, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2012 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 13.9800; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.2014. The middle country reads 8.6051. Against 2011, 190 values changed (167 up, 23 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2012

HighestGermany

13.9800

LowestBurkina Faso

1.2014

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, 2012, 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, 2012: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe13.9800
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.5940
3EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.4500
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.4100
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.3800
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.3400
7United StatesUSANorthern America13.1400
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.1000
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe13.0000
10PolandPOLEastern Europe12.7800
11PalauPLWMicronesia12.7619
=12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.7000
=12LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.7000
14IsraelISRWestern Asia12.6900
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.6433
16LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.5600
17JapanJPNEastern Asia12.5580
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.5200
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.5000
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.4900
21SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.3800
22RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.3527
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.3400
24AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand12.3000
25SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.2800

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany13.9800
  2. 2Canada13.5940
  3. 3Estonia13.4500
  4. 4Switzerland13.4100
  5. 5New Zealand13.3800

Lowest

  1. 192Burkina Faso1.2014
  2. 191Niger1.6400
  3. 190Guinea1.7250
  4. 189Chad1.9018
  5. 188Mali1.9725

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.6051. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 192 in both
  • 167 · 23rose · fell
  • 2unchanged

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 2012.

  • 190 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 12.7000. 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 (2012). Mean Years of Schooling, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2012

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2012?

Germany, at 13.9800, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2012 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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