United States

Learning-adjusted schooling in United States

Learning-adjusted schooling in United States: 10.4 years in 2010 and 10.6 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates.

Latest, 2020
10.6 years
Since 2010
+0.2 years
Rank, 2020
34 of 174
counting from the highest

years · World Bank

Learning-adjusted schooling in United StatesLearning-adjusted schooling in United States: 10.4 years in 2010 and 10.6 years in 2020, by World Bank estimates. The highest was 11.1 years in 2017, the lowest 10.4 years in 2010.
Estimates, World Bank

What the numbers say

  • The highest was 11.1 years in 2017, the lowest 10.4 years in 2010.

Every year

years · World Bank

YearUnited States
202010.6
201810.8
201711.1
201010.4

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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