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Mean Years of Schooling, 2019

2019, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2019 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 14.1700; Niger is lowest, at 1.2936. The middle country reads 9.6057. Against 2018, 187 values changed (161 up, 26 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2019

HighestGermany

14.1700

LowestNiger

1.2936

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, 2019, 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, 2019: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.1700
2SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.8600
3CanadaCANNorthern America13.8140
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.7300
5EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.6050
6United StatesUSANorthern America13.5900
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe13.3967
8IsraelISRWestern Asia13.3403
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe13.3267
10LatviaLVANorthern Europe13.2500
11PalauPLWMicronesia13.1776
12PolandPOLEastern Europe13.1200
13New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.0375
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe13.0000
=15DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.9100
=15SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.9100
=17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.8700
=17FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.8700
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.8200
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.8000
21United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia12.6900
22JapanJPNEastern Asia12.6560
23BahamasBHSCaribbean12.6353
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.6100
25AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand12.5600

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany14.1700
  2. 2Switzerland13.8600
  3. 3Canada13.8140
  4. 4Iceland13.7300
  5. 5Estonia13.6050

Lowest

  1. 192Niger1.2936
  2. 191Mali2.0418
  3. 190Burkina Faso2.1000
  4. 189Chad2.2328
  5. 188Guinea2.2427

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.6057. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 187values changed, of 192 in both
  • 161 · 26rose · fell
  • 5unchanged

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 2019.

  • 189 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 12.9100. 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 (2019). Mean Years of Schooling, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2019

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2019?

Germany, at 14.1700, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2019 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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