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Mean Years of Schooling, 1995

1995, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 1995 covers 156 countries. United States is highest, at 13.1350; Yemen is lowest, at 0.7242. The middle country reads 6.9207. Against 1994, 152 values changed (146 up, 6 down), 4 countries joined.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 1995

HighestUnited States

13.1350

LowestYemen

0.7242

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Mean Years of Schooling, 1995, 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 156 countries · select a heading to sort

Mean Years of Schooling, 1995: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America13.1350
2NorwayNORNorthern Europe11.8957
3JapanJPNEastern Asia11.8625
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe11.6500
5CanadaCANNorthern America11.6160
6New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand11.4680
7GermanyDEUWestern Europe11.4153
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe11.4142
9AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand11.3356
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe11.0913
11TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia10.9500
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe10.8832
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe10.7685
14LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe10.6946
15AustriaAUTWestern Europe10.6529
16PolandPOLEastern Europe10.6062
17RussiaRUSEastern Europe10.5960
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe10.5300
19BahamasBHSCaribbean10.5250
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe10.4826
21SamoaWSMPolynesia10.4808
22FinlandFINNorthern Europe10.2992
23TajikistanTJKCentral Asia10.2653
24IsraelISRWestern Asia10.2315
25UkraineUKREastern Europe10.1928

02In 1995

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1United States13.1350
  2. 2Norway11.8957
  3. 3Japan11.8625
  4. 4Denmark11.6500
  5. 5Canada11.6160

Lowest

  1. 156Yemen0.7242
  2. 155Niger0.9287
  3. 154Mali1.0319
  4. 153Afghanistan1.0885
  5. 152Djibouti1.1580

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.9207. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031994 → 1995

Since 1994

What changed between 1994 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +4 / −0countries joined / left
  • 152values changed, of 152 in both
  • 146 · 6rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Azerbaijan+ Belarus+ Djibouti+ Turkmenistan

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.

The site’s method

  • 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 1995.

  • The position is ours

    UNDP Human Development Report Office publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 156 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. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UNDP Human Development Report Office (1995). Mean Years of Schooling, 1995 [data set], describing 1995. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/1995

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 1995: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 1995?

United States, at 13.1350, of the 156 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 1995 describe?

1995.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 1995 cover?

156.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 1995?

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, 1995 the newest?

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

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