Average years of schooling vs. GDP per capita
Use escrito dataset owid.average-years-of-schooling-vs-gdp-per-capita
Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) adults over 25 years participated in formal education. Average economic output per person in a country or region per year. This data is adjusted for inflation and differences in living costs between countries. 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
- 1990–2025
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- annual
- Last modified
- 2026-07-27
- Units
- international-$ in 2021 prices; people; years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-years-of-schooling-vs-gdp-per-capita
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) |
| ny_gdp_pcap_pp_kd | number | GDP per capita (international-$ in 2021 prices) |
| population_historical | number | Population (people) |
| owid_region | text | World region according to OWID |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |