Years of schooling by country
Average years adults (25+) have spent in school. The map opens on 2023, with figures for 193 countries.
Highest in 2023
- Germany 14.3
- Switzerland 13.9
- United States of America 13.9
- Iceland 13.9
- Canada 13.9
Lowest in 2023
- Niger 1.4
- Mali 1.6
- Somalia 1.9
- Burkina Faso 2.3
- Chad 2.3
About the data
Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) adults over 25 years participated in formal education.
- 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 2.5 (2023)
- Albania 10.2 (2023)
- Algeria 7.4 (2023)
- Andorra 11.6 (2023)
- Angola 6.0 (2023)
- Antigua and Barb. 11.6 (2023)
- Argentina 11.2 (2023)
- Armenia 11.3 (2023)
- Australia 12.9 (2023)
- Austria 12.4 (2023)
- Azerbaijan 11.1 (2023)
- Bahamas 12.8 (2023)
- Bahrain 11.1 (2023)
- Bangladesh 6.8 (2023)
- Barbados 9.9 (2023)
- Belarus 12.3 (2023)
- Belgium 12.7 (2023)
- Belize 8.8 (2023)
- Benin 3.2 (2023)
- Bhutan 5.8 (2023)
- Bolivia 10.0 (2023)
- Bosnia and Herz. 11.0 (2023)
- Botswana 10.5 (2023)
- Brazil 8.4 (2023)
- Brunei 9.3 (2023)
- Bulgaria 11.5 (2023)
- Burkina Faso 2.3 (2023)
- Burundi 3.5 (2023)
- Cabo Verde 6.1 (2023)
- Cambodia 5.2 (2023)
- Cameroon 6.6 (2023)
- Canada 13.9 (2023)
- Central African Rep. 4.0 (2023)
- Chad 2.3 (2023)
- Chile 11.3 (2023)
- China 8.0 (2023)
- Colombia 9.0 (2023)
- Comoros 6.0 (2023)
- Congo 8.3 (2023)
- Costa Rica 8.8 (2023)
- Côte d'Ivoire 4.9 (2023)
- Croatia 12.1 (2023)
- Cuba 10.6 (2023)
- Cyprus 12.6 (2023)
- Czechia 13.0 (2023)
- Dem. Rep. Congo 7.4 (2023)
- Denmark 13.0 (2023)
- Djibouti 4.0 (2023)
- Dominica 10.1 (2023)
- Dominican Rep. 9.4 (2023)
- Ecuador 9.0 (2023)
- Egypt 10.1 (2023)
- El Salvador 7.3 (2023)
- Eq. Guinea 8.3 (2023)
- Eritrea 5.1 (2023)
- Estonia 13.6 (2023)
- eSwatini 8.7 (2023)
- Ethiopia 2.4 (2023)
- Fiji 10.4 (2023)
- Finland 13.0 (2023)
- France 11.8 (2023)
- Gabon 9.7 (2023)
- Gambia 4.7 (2023)
- Georgia 12.7 (2023)
- Germany 14.3 (2023)
- Ghana 7.1 (2023)
- Greece 11.6 (2023)
- Grenada 9.4 (2023)
- Guatemala 5.8 (2023)
- Guinea 2.5 (2023)
- Guinea-Bissau 3.7 (2023)
- Guyana 8.7 (2023)
- Haiti 5.4 (2023)
- Honduras 7.5 (2023)
- Hong Kong 12.4 (2023)
- Hungary 12.3 (2023)
- Iceland 13.9 (2023)
- India 6.9 (2023)
- Indonesia 8.7 (2023)
- Iran 10.8 (2023)
- Iraq 6.8 (2023)
- Ireland 11.7 (2023)
- Israel 13.5 (2023)
- Italy 10.8 (2023)
- Jamaica 10.0 (2023)
- Japan 12.7 (2023)
- Jordan 10.2 (2023)
- Judea and Samaria and Gaza Strip 10.1 (2023)
- Kazakhstan 12.5 (2023)
- Kenya 8.6 (2023)
- Kiribati 9.1 (2023)
- Kuwait 7.6 (2023)
- Kyrgyzstan 12.1 (2023)
- Laos 6.1 (2023)
- Latvia 13.4 (2023)
- Lebanon 10.4 (2023)
- Lesotho 7.7 (2023)
- Liberia 6.2 (2023)
- Libya 7.8 (2023)
- Liechtenstein 12.4 (2023)
- Lithuania 13.6 (2023)
- Luxembourg 12.6 (2023)
- Madagascar 4.6 (2023)
- Malawi 5.2 (2023)
- Malaysia 11.1 (2023)
- Maldives 7.4 (2023)
- Mali 1.6 (2023)
- Malta 12.4 (2023)
- Marshall Is. 11.6 (2023)
- Mauritania 4.9 (2023)
- Mauritius 10.1 (2023)
- Mexico 9.3 (2023)
- Micronesia 7.3 (2023)
- Moldova 11.8 (2023)
- Mongolia 9.4 (2023)
- Montenegro 12.8 (2023)
- Morocco 6.2 (2023)
- Mozambique 4.6 (2023)
- Myanmar 6.4 (2023)
- Namibia 7.3 (2023)
- Nauru 9.4 (2023)
- Nepal 4.5 (2023)
- Netherlands 12.7 (2023)
- New Zealand 12.9 (2023)
- Nicaragua 9.9 (2023)
- Niger 1.4 (2023)
- Nigeria 7.6 (2023)
- North Macedonia 10.2 (2023)
- Norway 13.1 (2023)
- Oman 11.9 (2023)
- Pakistan 4.3 (2023)
- Palau 13.3 (2023)
- Panama 10.8 (2023)
- Papua New Guinea 5.0 (2023)
- Paraguay 8.9 (2023)
- Peru 10.2 (2023)
- Philippines 10.0 (2023)
- Poland 13.2 (2023)
- Portugal 9.7 (2023)
- Qatar 10.8 (2023)
- Romania 11.6 (2023)
- Russia 12.4 (2023)
- Rwanda 4.9 (2023)
- S. Sudan 5.7 (2023)
- Saint Lucia 8.6 (2023)
- Samoa 11.3 (2023)
- San Marino 11.4 (2023)
- São Tomé and Principe 6.0 (2023)
- Saudi Arabia 11.6 (2023)
- Senegal 2.9 (2023)
- Serbia 11.6 (2023)
- Seychelles 11.2 (2023)
- Sierra Leone 3.5 (2023)
- Singapore 12.0 (2023)
- Slovakia 13.1 (2023)
- Slovenia 13.0 (2023)
- Solomon Is. 5.9 (2023)
- Somalia 1.9 (2023)
- South Africa 11.6 (2023)
- South Korea 12.7 (2023)
- Spain 10.8 (2023)
- Sri Lanka 10.8 (2023)
- St. Kitts and Nevis 10.8 (2023)
- St. Vin. and Gren. 11.3 (2023)
- Sudan 4.0 (2023)
- Suriname 8.4 (2023)
- Sweden 12.7 (2023)
- Switzerland 13.9 (2023)
- Syria 5.9 (2023)
- Tajikistan 11.3 (2023)
- Tanzania 6.1 (2023)
- Thailand 9.0 (2023)
- Timor-Leste 6.2 (2023)
- Togo 5.9 (2023)
- Tonga 10.9 (2023)
- Trinidad and Tobago 10.8 (2023)
- Tunisia 7.6 (2023)
- Turkey 9.0 (2023)
- Turkmenistan 11.2 (2023)
- Tuvalu 10.8 (2023)
- Uganda 6.3 (2023)
- Ukraine 11.1 (2023)
- United Arab Emirates 13.0 (2023)
- United Kingdom 13.5 (2023)
- United States of America 13.9 (2023)
- Uruguay 10.5 (2023)
- Uzbekistan 11.9 (2023)
- Vanuatu 7.2 (2023)
- Venezuela 9.7 (2023)
- Vietnam 9.0 (2023)
- Yemen 5.5 (2023)
- Zambia 7.4 (2023)
- Zimbabwe 8.9 (2023)