🏫 Mean Years of Schooling by Country since 1870

How many years has the population in different countries attended in schools?

This bar chart race shows the average number of years of total schooling across all education levels, for the population aged 25+.

Until 1990 the numbers are shown as 5 year periods, and from 1991 yearly.

Source:
Lee, Jong-Wha and Hanol Lee, 2016, “Human Capital in the Long Run,” Journal of Development Economics, vol. 122, pp. 147-169.
Barro, Robert and Jong-Wha Lee, 2013, "A New Data Set of Educational Attainment in the World, 1950-2010." Journal of Development Economics, vol 104, pp.184-198.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (2020)
ICF Macro Demographic and Health Surveys
UNICEF Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys and OECD (2019b)

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