Average years of schooling vs. expected years of schooling
Use escrito dataset owid.average-schooling-vs-expected-schooling
Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) adults over 25 years participated in formal education. 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. Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2023, based on data and estimates from different sources. Regions defined by Our World in Data, which are used in OWID charts and maps.
Cite as: UNDP, Human Development Report (2025) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Average years of schooling – UNDP” [dataset]. UNDP, Human Development Report, “Human Development Report” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1990–2023
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2025-05-07
- Units
- people; years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-schooling-vs-expected-schooling
Columns
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| entity | text | country, region or group |
| code | text | ISO 3166-1 alpha-3, OWID_ for OWID's own groups, empty for most regions |
| year | integer | |
| mys__sex_total | number | Average years of schooling (years) |
| eys__sex_total | number | Expected years of schooling (years) |
| population_historical | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |