Expected years in school by country
Years of school a child starting now can expect. The map opens on 2023, with figures for 195 countries.
Highest in 2023
Lowest in 2023
About the data
Number of years a child of school-entrance-age can expect to receive if the current age-specific enrollment rates persist throughout the child's life.
- Unit
- years
- Years
- 1990–2023
- Data as of
- 2026-09-28
- Source
- Our World in Data
- License
- CC BY 4.0
- Credit
- Our World in Data; UNDP, Human Development Report (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. CC BY 4.0
All countries
- Afghanistan 10.8 (2023)
- Albania 14.5 (2023)
- Algeria 15.5 (2023)
- Andorra 14.5 (2023)
- Angola 12.2 (2023)
- Antigua and Barb. 15.5 (2023)
- Argentina 18.8 (2023)
- Armenia 14.4 (2023)
- Australia 20.7 (2023)
- Austria 16.3 (2023)
- Azerbaijan 12.9 (2023)
- Bahamas 11.9 (2023)
- Bahrain 15.9 (2023)
- Bangladesh 12.3 (2023)
- Barbados 16.6 (2023)
- Belarus 13.7 (2023)
- Belgium 19.0 (2023)
- Belize 12.0 (2023)
- Benin 10.4 (2023)
- Bhutan 13.2 (2023)
- Bolivia 15.6 (2023)
- Bosnia and Herz. 13.2 (2023)
- Botswana 11.4 (2023)
- Brazil 15.8 (2023)
- Brunei 13.7 (2023)
- Bulgaria 15.3 (2023)
- Burkina Faso 8.7 (2023)
- Burundi 9.8 (2023)
- Cabo Verde 11.4 (2023)
- Cambodia 11.2 (2023)
- Cameroon 10.8 (2023)
- Canada 15.9 (2023)
- Central African Rep. 7.4 (2023)
- Chad 8.3 (2023)
- Chile 16.9 (2023)
- China 15.5 (2023)
- Colombia 14.3 (2023)
- Comoros 13.3 (2023)
- Congo 12.7 (2023)
- Costa Rica 16.3 (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire 11.4 (2023)
- Croatia 16.3 (2023)
- Cuba 13.9 (2023)
- Cyprus 16.2 (2023)
- Czechia 16.8 (2023)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 10.9 (2023)
- Denmark 18.7 (2023)
- Djibouti 6.2 (2023)
- Dominica 14.2 (2023)
- Dominican Rep. 13.6 (2023)
- Ecuador 14.9 (2023)
- Egypt 13.1 (2023)
- El Salvador 11.1 (2023)
- Eq. Guinea 12.5 (2023)
- Eritrea 7.3 (2023)
- Estonia 16.0 (2023)
- eSwatini 15.2 (2023)
- Ethiopia 9.2 (2023)
- Fiji 13.8 (2023)
- Finland 19.5 (2023)
- France 16.1 (2023)
- Gabon 12.5 (2023)
- Gambia 9.0 (2023)
- Georgia 16.8 (2023)
- Germany 17.3 (2023)
- Ghana 11.4 (2023)
- Greece 20.8 (2023)
- Grenada 16.6 (2023)
- Guatemala 10.7 (2023)
- Guinea 10.4 (2023)
- Guinea-Bissau 10.6 (2023)
- Guyana 13.0 (2023)
- Haiti 10.9 (2023)
- Honduras 10.2 (2023)
- Hong Kong 16.9 (2023)
- Hungary 15.5 (2023)
- Iceland 18.9 (2023)
- India 13.0 (2023)
- Indonesia 13.3 (2023)
- Iran 14.0 (2023)
- Iraq 12.4 (2023)
- Ireland 19.2 (2023)
- Israel 14.9 (2023)
- Italy 16.7 (2023)
- Jamaica 12.4 (2023)
- Japan 15.5 (2023)
- Jordan 13.1 (2023)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 13.0 (2023)
- Kazakhstan 14.0 (2023)
- Kenya 11.5 (2023)
- Kiribati 11.9 (2023)
- Kuwait 15.9 (2023)
- Kyrgyzstan 12.7 (2023)
- Laos 9.6 (2023)
- Latvia 16.5 (2023)
- Lebanon 11.7 (2023)
- Lesotho 11.0 (2023)
- Liberia 10.5 (2023)
- Libya 12.9 (2023)
- Liechtenstein 15.4 (2023)
- Lithuania 16.5 (2023)
- Luxembourg 14.4 (2023)
- Madagascar 9.1 (2023)
- Malawi 9.9 (2023)
- Malaysia 12.7 (2023)
- Maldives 12.8 (2023)
- Mali 7.0 (2023)
- Malta 15.9 (2023)
- Marshall Is. 16.4 (2023)
- Mauritania 7.9 (2023)
- Mauritius 14.2 (2023)
- Mexico 14.5 (2023)
- Micronesia 11.5 (2023)
- Moldova 14.6 (2023)
- Monaco 21.7 (2023)
- Mongolia 13.6 (2023)
- Montenegro 15.5 (2023)
- Morocco 15.1 (2023)
- Mozambique 10.8 (2023)
- Myanmar 11.5 (2023)
- Namibia 11.8 (2023)
- Nauru 12.8 (2023)
- Nepal 13.8 (2023)
- Netherlands 18.6 (2023)
- New Zealand 19.3 (2023)
- Nicaragua 11.5 (2023)
- Niger 8.3 (2023)
- Nigeria 10.5 (2023)
- North Korea 12.2 (2023)
- North Macedonia 14.8 (2023)
- Norway 18.8 (2023)
- Oman 13.4 (2023)
- Pakistan 7.9 (2023)
- Palau 14.1 (2023)
- Panama 13.3 (2023)
- Papua New Guinea 11.5 (2023)
- Paraguay 14.0 (2023)
- Peru 14.9 (2023)
- Philippines 12.8 (2023)
- Poland 16.7 (2023)
- Portugal 17.5 (2023)
- Qatar 13.1 (2023)
- Romania 14.1 (2023)
- Russia 13.2 (2023)
- Rwanda 12.6 (2023)
- S. Sudan 5.6 (2023)
- Saint Lucia 12.7 (2023)
- Samoa 12.4 (2023)
- San Marino 14.6 (2023)
- São Tomé and Principe 12.9 (2023)
- Saudi Arabia 16.9 (2023)
- Senegal 9.1 (2023)
- Serbia 15.0 (2023)
- Seychelles 18.2 (2023)
- Sierra Leone 9.1 (2023)
- Singapore 16.7 (2023)
- Slovakia 14.9 (2023)
- Slovenia 17.5 (2023)
- Solomon Is. 11.3 (2023)
- Somalia 7.5 (2023)
- South Africa 13.8 (2023)
- South Korea 16.6 (2023)
- Spain 17.8 (2023)
- Sri Lanka 13.1 (2023)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 18.4 (2023)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 16.3 (2023)
- Sudan 8.6 (2023)
- Suriname 11.0 (2023)
- Sweden 19.0 (2023)
- Switzerland 16.7 (2023)
- Syria 7.4 (2023)
- Tajikistan 10.8 (2023)
- Tanzania 8.6 (2023)
- Thailand 15.4 (2023)
- Timor-Leste 13.3 (2023)
- Togo 13.1 (2023)
- Tonga 17.8 (2023)
- Trinidad and Tobago 14.2 (2023)
- Tunisia 14.7 (2023)
- Turkey 19.8 (2023)
- Turkmenistan 13.2 (2023)
- Tuvalu 12.4 (2023)
- Uganda 11.6 (2023)
- Ukraine 13.3 (2023)
- United Arab Emirates 15.6 (2023)
- United Kingdom 17.8 (2023)
- United States of America 15.9 (2023)
- Uruguay 17.5 (2023)
- Uzbekistan 12.5 (2023)
- Vanuatu 11.8 (2023)
- Venezuela 13.0 (2023)
- Vietnam 15.5 (2023)
- Yemen 7.5 (2023)
- Zambia 11.0 (2023)
- Zimbabwe 11.1 (2023)