Countries With the Highest Education Scores

Every country with a figure for education score, ranked from highest to lowest. The top three are Monaco (1.72), New Zealand (1.44) and Hong Kong SAR, China (1.34). The middle country of the 199 has 0.584.

What this measures

Education score, in typical gaps (standard deviations). Source: PlaceStats. For this measure, higher is better.

The average of 10 measures from 3 publishers. Each measure is first put on a common scale: 0 is the average country in an average year, and 1 is a typical gap between countries (a standard deviation). Each is turned so that higher is better. Measures are averaged within each publisher first, so a publisher with many measures does not count for more. Members: Primary completion, Expected schooling, Mean years of schooling, Adult literacy, Pupil-teacher ratio, Primary enrollment, Out of school, primary, Secondary enrollment, Tertiary enrollment, Researchers.

A standard deviation is a typical gap between places.

This measure mostly follows how rich a country is, so this ranking is close to a ranking by national income. Each country’s page also ranks it against countries with similar incomes, which is often the fairer comparison.

The full ranking

Each country’s latest figure, from 2010–2025. The year beside each value says when it was measured.

More on education score

• Countries With the Lowest Education Scores
• Education score by country: trend over time and what it goes with

Related rankings

• Countries With the Highest PISA Maths
• Countries With the Highest PISA Reading
• Countries With the Highest PISA Science
• Countries With the Highest Primary Completion
• Countries With the Highest Expected Schooling
• Countries With the Highest Mean Years of Schooling
• Countries With the Highest Education Spending
• Countries With the Highest Primary Enrollment

A ranking describes countries, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All country rankings.