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Mean Years of Schooling, 2017

2017, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2017 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 14.1050; Niger is lowest, at 1.3116. The middle country reads 9.2987. Against 2016, 190 values changed (160 up, 30 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2017

HighestGermany

14.1050

LowestNiger

1.3116

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.1050
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.7580
3SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.7350
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.5600
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.5500
6United StatesUSANorthern America13.4133
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.2325
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe13.1900
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.1600
10IsraelISRWestern Asia13.1488
11PalauPLWMicronesia13.0573
12LatviaLVANorthern Europe13.0550
13PolandPOLEastern Europe13.0400
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe13.0100
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.9500
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.8700
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.7900
18SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.7700
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.7400
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.7000
21JapanJPNEastern Asia12.6280
22LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.5024
23SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.4900
24BahamasBHSCaribbean12.4588
25RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.3845

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany14.1050
  2. 2Canada13.7580
  3. 3Switzerland13.7350
  4. 4Estonia13.5600
  5. 5Iceland13.5500

Lowest

  1. 192Niger1.3116
  2. 191Mali1.7000
  3. 190Burkina Faso1.7625
  4. 189Chad2.1382
  5. 188Ethiopia2.4110

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.2987. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 192 in both
  • 160 · 30rose · 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 2017.

  • 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 (2017). Mean Years of Schooling, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2017

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2017?

Germany, at 14.1050, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2017 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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