List of countries by women's average years in school

This is a list of countries by the average number of years of school attended by women between 25 and 34 years old, including primary, secondary and tertiary education published by Gapminder Foundation in 2015.

International rankings (2015)

Table of international rankings in 2015

Rank	Country or territory	Average years in school
1	Canada	15.7
1	Israel	15.7
3	Japan	15.5
4	Norway	15.4
5	Andorra	15.1
5	Denmark	15.1
5	Finland	15.1
5	Sweden	15.1
5	United States	15.1
10	New Zealand	15.0
11	Belarus	14.9
11	Iceland	14.9
11	United Kingdom	14.9
14	Poland	14.8
15	Netherlands	14.7
15	Russia	14.7
15	Ukraine	14.7
18	Cyprus	14.6
18	Georgia	14.6
18	South Korea	14.6
21	Antigua and Barbuda	14.5
21	Australia	14.5
21	Belgium	14.5
21	Brunei	14.5
21	Czech Republic	14.5
21	Estonia	14.5
21	Ireland	14.5
28	Latvia	14.4
28	Switzerland	14.4
30	Italy	14.3
31	Germany	14.2
31	Lithuania	14.2
31	Slovenia	14.2
34	Luxembourg	14.1
35	France	14.0
35	Slovakia	14.0
35	Turkmenistan	14.0
38	Greece	13.9
38	Hungary	13.9
38	Kazakhstan	13.9
41	Romania	13.8
41	Moldova	13.8
41	Kyrgyzstan	13.8
41	Singapore	13.8
45	Bahamas	13.6
45	Bulgaria	13.6
47	Spain	13.5
48	Austria	13.3
48	Chile	13.3
48	Trinidad and Tobago	13.3
51	Azerbaijan	13.2
51	Cuba	13.2
51	Samoa	13.2
51	United Arab Emirates	13.2
55	Armenia	13.1
55	Montenegro	13.1
57	Argentina	13.0
57	Serbia	13.0
57	Uzbekistan	13.0
60	Jamaica	12.8
61	North Macedonia	12.7
62	Croatia	12.6
62	Federated States of Micronesia	12.6
64	Dominica	12.5
64	Kuwait	12.5
64	Panama	12.5
67	Jordan	12.4
68	Albania	12.3
69	Tonga	12.2
70	Fiji	12.1
70	Mongolia	12.1
70	Uruguay	12.1
73	Malaysia	11.9
73	Saint Lucia	11.9
75	Philippines	11.8
75	Tajikistan	11.8
77	Malta	11.6
77	North Korea	11.6
77	Peru	11.6
77	Seychelles	11.6
77	Sri Lanka	11.6
82	Portugal	11.5
82	South Africa	11.5
82	Venezuela	11.5
85	Lebanon	11.4
86	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.3
87	Barbados	11.2
87	Ecuador	11.2
87	Grenada	11.2
87	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	11.2
91	Dominican Republic	11.1
91	Palestine	11.1
93	Costa Rica	10.9
94	Colombia	10.8
94	Guyana	10.8
94	Marshall Islands	10.8
94	Mexico	10.8
94	Qatar	10.8
99	Bahrain	10.5
100	Mauritius	10.4
101	Gabon	10.2
101	Lesotho	10.2
101	Paraguay	10.2
101	Zimbabwe	10.2
105	Suriname	10.1
105	Thailand	10.1
107	Swaziland	10.0
107	Kiribati	10.0
109	Iran	9.89
110	Bolivia	9.86
111	China	9.82
112	Namibia	9.79
113	Belize	9.78
114	Vietnam	9.65
115	Saudi Arabia	9.61
116	Brazil	9.6
117	Indonesia	9.56
118	El Salvador	9.21
119	Kenya	9.14
120	Tunisia	9.1
121	Egypt	9.06
122	Nicaragua	9.04
123	Vanuatu	8.94
124	Republic of the Congo	8.85
125	Turkey	8.76
126	Botswana	8.71
127	Honduras	8.58
128	Syria	8.39
129	Oman	8.19
130	Iraq	7.88
131	Solomon Islands	7.85
132	Zambia	7.75
133	Algeria	7.74
133	Myanmar	7.74
135	Maldives	7.6
136	Equatorial Guinea	7.28
137	Cameroon	7.17
138	Ghana	7.12
139	Tajikistan	7.06
140	Timor-Leste	6.92
141	Haiti	6.9
142	Nigeria	6.77
143	Guatemala	6.65
144	Madagascar	6.46
145	São Tomé and Príncipe	6.35
146	Libya	6.27
147	Democratic Republic of the Congo	6.26
148	Uganda	6.16
149	Cape Verde	6.14
150	Laos	6.11
151	Papua New Guinea	6.04
152	Comoros	6.03
153	India	5.79
154	Cambodia	5.69
155	Sudan	5.67
156	Rwanda	5.48
157	Angola	5.31
158	Bangladesh	5.09
159	Malawi	4.98
160	Morocco	4.84
161	Mauritania	4.44
162	Liberia	4.37
163	Central African Republic	4.27
164	Pakistan	4.26
165	Burundi	4.23
166	Togo	4.19
167	Djibouti	4.05
168	Eritrea	3.95
169	Ivory Coast	3.87
170	Ethiopia	3.75
171	Nepal	3.6
172	Gambia	3.48
173	Bhutan	3.23
174	Senegal	3.11
175	Mozambique	2.99
176	Benin	2.73
177	Sierra Leone	2.58
178	Guinea-Bissau	2.36
179	Yemen	2.35
180	Guinea	2.07
181	Somalia	1.98
182	Burkina Faso	1.86
183	Chad	1.63
184	Mali	1.56
185	Niger	1.41
186	South Sudan	1.19
187	Afghanistan	0.98

See also

• Female education
• Gender and education
• Project Exploration
• The Girl Effect
• Society for Promotion of Female Education in the East
• Women's college
• Women's education and development
• Women in education in the United States

Historical literature

• Bathsua Makin (1673), An Essay to Revive the Ancient Education of Gentlewomen, in Religion, Manners, Arts & Tongues
• Anna Julia Cooper (1892), The Higher Education of Women
• Alice Zimmern (1898), Renaissance of Girls' Education in England
• Thomas Woody (1929), A History of Women's Education in the United States, 2 vols.

Contemporary

• Barry Turner (1974), Equality for some: The story of girls' education

External links

• Literary Encyclopedia, Education of Women 1650-1750
• Education of Girls: Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and others
• Article on education of women in Poland
• Home Economics Archive: Tradition, Research, History (HEARTH)
  An e-book collection of over 1,000 books on home economics spanning 1850 to 1950, created by Cornell University's Mann Library.
• American Association of University Women
• Essay by Gene Sperling on girls' education

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