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Mean Years of Schooling, 2018

2018, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2018 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 14.0800; Niger is lowest, at 1.2459. The middle country reads 9.4422. Against 2017, 188 values changed (162 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2018

HighestGermany

14.0800

LowestNiger

1.2459

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, 2018, 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, 2018: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.0800
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.8000
3CanadaCANNorthern America13.7860
4EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.6600
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.6400
6United StatesUSANorthern America13.5000
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe13.2933
8IsraelISRWestern Asia13.2442
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.2433
10LatviaLVANorthern Europe13.1800
11New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.1350
12PalauPLWMicronesia13.1173
13PolandPOLEastern Europe13.0800
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.9750
15SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.8700
16DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.8600
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.8450
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.8300
19FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.8050
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.7500
21JapanJPNEastern Asia12.6420
22SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.5500
23BahamasBHSCaribbean12.5468
24LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe12.5236
25United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia12.4800

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany14.0800
  2. 2Switzerland13.8000
  3. 3Canada13.7860
  4. 4Estonia13.6600
  5. 5Iceland13.6400

Lowest

  1. 192Niger1.2459
  2. 191Mali1.8700
  3. 190Burkina Faso1.9200
  4. 189Guinea2.1300
  5. 188Chad2.1855

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.4422. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

What changed between 2017 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 188values changed, of 192 in both
  • 162 · 26rose · fell
  • 4unchanged

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 2018.

  • 190 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 12.2100. 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 (2018). Mean Years of Schooling, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2018

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2018: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2018?

Germany, at 14.0800, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2018 describe?

2018.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2018 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2018?

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, 2018 the newest?

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

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