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Learning-adjusted schooling in Japan

Learning-adjusted schooling in Japan: 12 years in 2010 and 11.7 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates.

Latest, 2020
11.7 years
Since 2010
−0.3 years

years · World Bank

Learning-adjusted schooling in JapanLearning-adjusted schooling in Japan: 12 years in 2010 and 11.7 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates. The highest was 12.3 years in 2017, the lowest 11.7 years in 2020.
Estimates, World Bank

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 12.3 years in 2017, the lowest 11.7 years in 2020.

Every year

years · World Bank

YearJapan
202011.7
201812.3
201712.3
201012

Good to know

  • The years of school a child can expect by 18, cut to what students actually learn: the World Bank’s learning-adjusted years of school.
  • Source: World Bank Human Capital Index, via Our World in Data.
  • Ranks count the 174 countries with a value in 2020, highest first.

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