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Mean Years of Schooling, 2016

2016, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2016 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 14.130; Niger is lowest, at 1.377. The middle country reads 9.161. Against 2015, 189 values changed (163 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2016

HighestGermany

14.130

LowestNiger

1.377

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, 2016, 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, 2016: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.130
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.730
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.670
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.510
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.460
6United StatesUSANorthern America13.340
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.330
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe13.160
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe13.110
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.070
11IsraelISRWestern Asia13.054
12PolandPOLEastern Europe13.000
13PalauPLWMicronesia12.998
14LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.930
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.820
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.810
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.740
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.710
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.685
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.670
21JapanJPNEastern Asia12.614
22LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.481
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.410
24RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.378
25BahamasBHSCaribbean12.371

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany14.130
  2. 2Canada13.730
  3. 3Switzerland13.670
  4. 4Estonia13.510
  5. 5Iceland13.460

Lowest

  1. 192Niger1.377
  2. 191Mali1.530
  3. 190Burkina Faso1.605
  4. 189Chad2.091
  5. 188Afghanistan2.269

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.161. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 189values changed, of 192 in both
  • 163 · 26rose · fell
  • 3unchanged

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 2016.

  • 191 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 10.310. 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 (2016). Mean Years of Schooling, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2016

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2016?

Germany, at 14.130, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2016 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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