Dataset
Average years of schooling, males vs. females
owid.average-years-of-schooling-males-vs-females
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About
Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) men over 25 years participated in formal education. Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) women over 25 years participated in formal education. Population by country, available from 10,000 BCE to 2100, 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 among men – 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-years-of-schooling-males-vs-females
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_male | number | Average years of schooling among men (years) |
| mys__sex_female | number | Average years of schooling among women (years) |
| population | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |