Dataset
Average years of schooling among adults
owid.years-of-schooling
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About
Average number of years (excluding years spent repeating individual grades) adults over 25 years participated in formal education.
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
- years
- License
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
- Method
- https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/years-of-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) |
Dimensions
| Name | Values |
|---|---|
| entity | |
| year |