Dataset
Average years of schooling
owid.mean-years-of-schooling-long-run
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About
Average years of formal education for individuals aged 15-64.
Cite as: Barro and Lee (2015); Lee and Lee (2016) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Average years of schooling” [dataset]. Barro and Lee, “Projections of Educational Attainment”; Lee and Lee, “Human Capital in the Long Run” [original data].
- Publisher
- Our World in Data
- Tier
- Official
- Covers
- 1870–2040
- Places
- Countries, regions and groups of the world
- Updated
- irregular
- Last modified
- 2023-07-17
- Units
- years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/mean-years-of-schooling-long-run
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 | |
| mf_youth_and_adults__15_64_years__average_years_of_education | number | Average years of schooling (years) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |