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Mean Years of Schooling, 2013

2013, as UNDP Human Development Report Office’s 2025 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Mean Years of Schooling, 2013 covers 192 countries. Germany is highest, at 14.010; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.246. The middle country reads 8.793. Against 2012, 190 values changed (162 up, 28 down), the same countries are covered.

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Mean Years of Schooling · Data for 2013

HighestGermany

14.010

LowestBurkina Faso

1.246

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, 2013, 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, 2013: every country, as published by UNDP Human Development Report Office.
derived
1GermanyDEUWestern Europe14.010
2CanadaCANNorthern America13.628
3EstoniaESTNorthern Europe13.540
4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe13.525
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand13.330
=6LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe13.200
=6United StatesUSANorthern America13.200
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.190
9United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe12.830
10PalauPLWMicronesia12.820
11LatviaLVANorthern Europe12.810
12IsraelISRWestern Asia12.800
13PolandPOLEastern Europe12.780
14DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe12.750
15NorwayNORNorthern Europe12.677
16CzechiaCZEEastern Europe12.600
17LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe12.590
18JapanJPNEastern Asia12.572
19GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.560
20FinlandFINNorthern Europe12.550
21SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe12.440
22SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe12.380
23RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.359
24SwedenSWENorthern Europe12.230
25BahamasBHSCaribbean12.113

02In 2013

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Germany14.010
  2. 2Canada13.628
  3. 3Estonia13.540
  4. 4Switzerland13.525
  5. 5New Zealand13.330

Lowest

  1. 192Burkina Faso1.246
  2. 191Niger1.574
  3. 190Guinea1.798
  4. 189Mali1.925
  5. 188Chad1.949

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.793. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032012 → 2013

Since 2012

What changed between 2012 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 190values changed, of 192 in both
  • 162 · 28rose · 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.

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 2013.

  • 188 distinct values among 192

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 9 decimals. 2 countries share 13.200. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 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. 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 (2013). Mean Years of Schooling, 2013 [data set], describing 2013. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/mean-years-schooling/2013

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07Questions

Mean Years of Schooling, 2013: questions and answers

Which country has the highest mean years of schooling in Mean Years of Schooling, 2013?

Germany, at 14.010, of the 192 countries in the file.

What year does Mean Years of Schooling, 2013 describe?

2013.

How many countries does Mean Years of Schooling, 2013 cover?

192.

Where can I download Mean Years of Schooling, 2013?

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, 2013 the newest?

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

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