Nigeria

Learning-adjusted schooling in Nigeria

Learning-adjusted schooling in Nigeria: 4.3 years in 2017 and 5 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates.

Latest, 2020
5 years
Since 2017
+0.8 years
Rank, 2020
148 of 174
counting from the highest

years · World Bank

Learning-adjusted schooling in NigeriaLearning-adjusted schooling in Nigeria: 4.3 years in 2017 and 5 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates. The highest was 5 years in 2018, the lowest 4.3 years in 2017.
Estimates, World Bank

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 5 years in 2018, the lowest 4.3 years in 2017.

Every year

years · World Bank

YearNigeria
20205
20185
20174.3

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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