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Education Statistics > Average years of schooling of adults (most recent) by country

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Rank   Countries  Amount 
# 1     United States: 12 
# 2     Norway: 11.8 
# 3     New Zealand: 11.7 
# 4     Canada: 11.6 
# 5     Sweden: 11.4 
# 6     Australia: 10.9 
# 7     Switzerland: 10.5 
# 8     Germany: 10.2 
# 9     Finland: 10 
# 10     Poland: 9.8 
# 11     Denmark: 9.7 
# 12     Israel: 9.6 
# 13     Japan: 9.5 
= 14     United Kingdom: 9.4 
= 14     Netherlands: 9.4 
= 14     Ireland: 9.4 
= 17     Slovakia: 9.3 
= 17     Belgium: 9.3 
# 19     Cyprus: 9.2 
# 20     Hungary: 9.1 
= 21     Argentina: 8.8 
= 21     Iceland: 8.8 
= 23     Greece: 8.7 
= 23     Barbados: 8.7 
# 25     Panama: 8.6 
# 26     Austria: 8.4 
# 27     Fiji: 8.3 
# 28     Philippines: 8.2 
# 29     France: 7.9 
# 30     Trinidad and Tobago: 7.8 
= 31     Uruguay: 7.6 
= 31     Peru: 7.6 
# 33     Chile: 7.5 
# 34     Spain: 7.3 
= 35     Italy: 7.2 
= 35     Mexico: 7.2 
= 37     Slovenia: 7.1 
= 37     Kuwait: 7.1 
# 39     Singapore: 7 
= 40     Jordan: 6.9 
= 40     Sri Lanka: 6.9 
# 42     Malaysia: 6.8 
# 43     Venezuela: 6.6 
# 44     Thailand: 6.5 
= 45     Ecuador: 6.4 
= 45     China: 6.4 
# 47     Botswana: 6.3 
= 48     Paraguay: 6.2 
= 48     Guyana: 6.2 
= 50     Bahrain: 6.1 
= 50     South Africa: 6.1 
= 52     Mauritius: 6 
= 52     Costa Rica: 6 
= 52     Swaziland: 6 
# 55     Portugal: 5.9 
# 56     Syria: 5.8 
# 57     Bolivia: 5.6 
# 58     Zambia: 5.5 
= 59     Algeria: 5.4 
= 59     Zimbabwe: 5.4 
= 61     Jamaica: 5.3 
= 61     Colombia: 5.3 
= 61     Turkey: 5.3 
# 64     El Salvador: 5.2 
# 65     India: 5.1 
= 66     Tunisia: 5 
= 66     Indonesia: 5 
= 68     Dominican Republic: 4.9 
= 68     Brazil: 4.9 
# 70     Honduras: 4.8 
# 71     Nicaragua: 4.6 
= 72     Kenya: 4.2 
= 72     Lesotho: 4.2 
# 74     Iraq: 4 
= 75     Pakistan: 3.9 
= 75     Ghana: 3.9 
= 77     Guatemala: 3.5 
= 77     Cameroon: 3.5 
= 77     Uganda: 3.5 
# 80     Togo: 3.3 
# 81     Malawi: 3.2 
# 82     Papua New Guinea: 2.9 
= 83     Haiti: 2.8 
= 83     Burma: 2.8 
# 85     Tanzania: 2.7 
= 86     Senegal: 2.6 
= 86     Rwanda: 2.6 
= 86     Bangladesh: 2.6 
= 89     Central African Republic: 2.5 
= 89     Liberia: 2.5 
= 91     Nepal: 2.4 
= 91     Sierra Leone: 2.4 
= 93     Gambia, The: 2.3 
= 93     Benin: 2.3 
# 95     Sudan: 2.1 
# 96     Afghanistan: 1.7 
# 97     Mozambique: 1.1 
# 98     Niger: 1 
# 99     Mali: 0.9 
# 100     Guinea-Bissau: 0.8 
Weighted average: 6.2  


DEFINITION: Average years of schooling of adults is the years of formal schooling received, on average, by adults over age 15. (Data Source: Barro-Lee Data Set www.worldbank.org/html/prdmg/grthweb/ddbarle2.htm)

SOURCE: UNESCO

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Broken
18th September 2011 		Let your body rock, who the frigg wants to talk. Let your body rock, wait a minute eh.........
celia
6th September 2011 		May I know when this data was last updated?
wowzers
25th July 2011 		....monica
jacky
25th May 2011 		I can get the imformation by fist level and second level, but how can I get tertiary education?
Tegwa Fadl Alla
16th May 2011 		Could you please; add statstics for the years range from 1960-up to most recents data
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13th December 2010 		Monica stfu
Monica
4th November 2010 		The US has a partial school year with several lengthy vacations and many days off school. When tallying the days children in the US are in the classroom, it amounts to less than 1/2 of a year. Our school years are actually 6, not 12. Please make adjustments to these 'statistics'.
Rubel Ahmed
18th September 2010 		Thanks for this education statistics
Ilo
18th August 2010 		Please include Latvia in the following list
emre
12th July 2010 		I suspect the figures are correct.
Christopher
9th June 2010 		Can you kindly include also the following countries United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as these countries are potential candidates for foreign investments. Thank you.
Nicole B.
8th December 2009 		Thanks for the helpful and extremely clear, easy-to-understand data! Here's an updated link to the underlying Barro-Lee data-set. http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTEDUCATION/EXTDATASTATISTICS/EXTEDSTATS/0,,contentMDK:21218180~menuPK:4324130~pagePK:64168445~piPK:64168309~theSitePK:3232764,00.html.
furyise
16th November 2009 		Catz rule!!
furyise
16th November 2009 		Norm, forget about the bottom stuff, just look at the stats
Conor
4th October 2009 		The link to the data source does not work. Does anyone else know where I can find this information?
EAAEDS
18th September 2009 		A comment to Norm, 09-08-31: if adults (over 15 years old) of a country have an average of 12 years of schooling, it means that if the started school when they were 6 years old, the average citizen has been in school until 18 years old. This variable TYR (total years of schooling) is one of the most important variables to measure the opportunities for development. Usually countries with low levels of this variable do not perform well for several reasons explained in many economic studies. The highest priority of the MDGs (Millenium Development Goals) should be, in my view as economist, to foster international cooperatio to improve education and to increase TYR in the poorest countries. Our Association publishes a blog with some international graphs in this regard: http://euroamericanassociation.blogspot.com
Norm
30th August 2009 		I don't understand these stats. The definition "is years of formal schooling, on average, by adults over age 15." So in the US the average person goes to school until age 27. So the average person graduates from high school at age 18. They do undergraduate or trade school or equivalent for 4 years until age 22 or 23. This leaves 5 years. This would mean that the average person (50% of the population has more and 50% has less) has been in school long enough to get a Phd or some educational equivalent. I know the US has a lot of lawyers but really, that many?
Sini
2nd June 2009 		I find Nation Master's data very easy to understand. Try to visit World Bank's statistics and come back. Compared to WB's pages this is really easy stuff. Great pages, thanks!
Ed Beamer
30th October 2005 		My child could not understand what the numbers meant. Because lots of children
go on this website for research, my suggestion is that you should make it more
clear what the statistics under 'discription' means. Thank-you
rhian
31st January 2005 		you need to make it more clear and so even if children could under #stand
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