Human Development

Indicators / Mean years of schooling

Mean years of schooling

Average number of years of education actually completed by adults aged 25 and older.

26 countries with a value for 2023. Ranked highest to lowest — rank #1 is the best outcome on this measure.

AllLowMediumHighVery High
All regionsArab StatesEast Asia and the PacificEurope and Central AsiaLatin America and the CaribbeanSouth AsiaSub-Saharan Africa
1Congo (Democratic Republic of the)Low7.4 yrs2LiberiaLow6.2 yrs3South SudanLow5.7 yrs4YemenLow5.5 yrs5MalawiLow5.2 yrs6EritreaLow5.1 yrs7GambiaLow4.7 yrs8MadagascarLow4.6 yrs9MozambiqueLow4.6 yrs10PakistanLow4.3 yrs11Central African RepublicLow4 yrs12SudanLow4 yrs13DjiboutiLow4 yrs14Guinea-BissauLow3.7 yrs15Sierra LeoneLow3.5 yrs16BurundiLow3.5 yrs17BeninLow3.2 yrs18SenegalLow2.9 yrs19AfghanistanLow2.5 yrs20GuineaLow2.5 yrs21EthiopiaLow2.4 yrs22ChadLow2.3 yrs23Burkina FasoLow2.3 yrs24SomaliaLow1.9 yrs25MaliLow1.6 yrs26NigerLow1.4 yrs