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Years of Schooling

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Average number of years of educational attainment by country

Countries with less than 5 years of mean schooling are shown in the lightest green. Countries with 5 to 7 years are shown in light green. Countries with 8 to 11 are in green, and countries with more than 11 are in dark green.

In North America, Canada and the United States both haven an average of 12 to 13 mean years of schooling. Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Belize, and Panama range from 9 to 11 years; Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Dominican Republic range from 7 to 8 years; and Haiti, Guatemala, Honduras, and Nicaragua range from 4 to 6 years. Most countries in South America range from 9 to 11 years, except for Colombia, Ecuador, Suriname, Brazil, and Paraguay, which range from 7 to 8 years. In Europe, most countries in northern Europe range from 12 to 13 years, except for Iceland, Finland, Belgium, and France, which range from 9 to 11 years. In southern and eastern Europe, most countries range from 9 to 11 years, except for Portugal, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Macedonia, which range from 7 to 8 years. Most countries in Africa range from 4 to 6 years. Several, however, have only 1 to 3 years, including Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Chad, and Ethiopia; and a few, including Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Ghana, Gabon, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, have from 7 to 8 years. Botswana and South Africa range from 9 to 10 years. In Southwest Asia, Israel is 12 to 13 years; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the Persian Gulf countries are 9 to 11 years; Turkey, Syria, Iran, and Oman range from 7 to 8 years; and Iraq and Yemen from 4 to 6 years. The Central Asian countries are 9 to 11 years, except for Afghanistan, which is 4 to 6 years. The countries of South Asia are 4 to 6 years, except for Sri Lanka, which is 9 to 11 years. In Southeast Asia, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam range from 4 to 6 years, whereas Thailand and Indonesia range from 7 to 8 years, and Malaysia and the Philippines from 9 to 11 years. In Oceania, Australia and New Zealand range from 12 to 13 years, and Papua New Guinea is 4 to 6 years.

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Years of Schooling			Diamond Mines	British Empire, Early 1920s
Class	Rank	Years	Diamond Mines	Aden	Anglo-Egyptian Sudan	Bahama Islands	Basutoland	Bechuanaland	British Guiana	British Honduras	British North Borneo	Cameroons	Canada	Ceylon	Cyprus	Egypt	Falkland Islands	Fiji	Gambia	Gold Coast	India	Iraq	Irish Free State	Jamaica	Kenya	Kuwait	Malay States	Mauritius	New Hebrides	New Zealand	Newfoundland	Nigeria	North East New Guinea	Northern Rhodesia	Nyasaland	Oman	Palestine	Qatar	Samoa	Sarawak	Sierra Leone	Solomon Islands	South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands	South West Africa	Southern Rhodesia	Swaziland	Tanganyika	Territory of Papua	Togo	Transjordan	Trinidad and Tobago	Trucial Oman	Uganda	Union of South Africa	United Kingdom



																		87.3%												96.9%			45.3%						46.0%			64.8%	75.6%					51.6%
						40.9%																		94.0%																											84.3%
															95.6%								25.7%																																88.8%
			59						98.8%	96.9%
																	85.3%											82.8%	43.0%
			2										95.5%																		3.10%
														98.5%							97.8%
			1								21.9%										97.5%						39.6%													38.0%
				47.4%	4.39%											37.8%						98.5%				93.1%										26.1%	30.2%	96.8%												76.6%		56.6%
			2.6666666666666665		59.9%		98.3%	99.7%				6.31%							94.1%	84.5%					98.1%							94.9%		99.5%	98.2%						96.4%			99.3%	99.7%	97.2%	96.9%		12.1%				99.3%	96.0%

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