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School Life Expectancy, 1972

Figures for 1972, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 1972 covers 61 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 12.779; Somalia is lowest, at 0.685. The middle country reads 6.654. Against 1971, 58 values changed (47 up, 11 down), 3 countries joined, 13 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 1972

HighestUnited States

12.779

LowestSomalia

0.685

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of School Life Expectancy, 1972, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 61 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 1972: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America12.779——
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.183——
3BarbadosBRBCaribbean11.59311.6811.504
4ArgentinaARGSouth America10.61110.6410.586
5PanamaPANCentral America10.40510.2410.570
6Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean10.33910.3110.373
7FijiFJIMelanesia10.1459.8710.413
8GuyanaGUYSouth America9.6119.429.799
9CubaCUBCaribbean9.1148.969.259
10PeruPERSouth America9.058——
11MauritiusMUSEastern Africa8.9888.629.338
12JordanJORWestern Asia8.8987.5910.111
13GabonGABMiddle Africa8.8047.969.660
14BahrainBHRWestern Asia8.7038.169.130
15PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia8.482——
16MongoliaMNGEastern Asia8.375——
17Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa8.2596.969.560
18KuwaitKWTWestern Asia8.0467.738.310
19TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa7.9675.8710.009
20SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.8095.3410.167
21Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean7.729——
22VenezuelaVENSouth America7.697——
23ParaguayPRYSouth America7.628——
24BoliviaBOLSouth America7.614——
25LibyaLBYNorthern Africa7.6065.239.469

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1United States12.779
  2. 2Iceland12.183
  3. 3Barbados11.593
  4. 4Argentina10.611
  5. 5Panama10.405

Lowest

  1. 61Somalia0.685
  2. 60Niger0.776
  3. 59Burkina Faso0.878
  4. 58Ethiopia1.232
  5. 57Chad1.985

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 6.654. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +3 / −13countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 58 in both
  • 47 · 11rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bolivia+ Indonesia+ Papua New Guinea− Belarus− Central African Republic− Ghana− Guinea− India− Lebanon− Sri Lanka− Mali− Mozambique− Qatar− Russia− Rwanda− El Salvador

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 34 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1972). School Life Expectancy, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/1972

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 1972?

United States, at 12.779, of the 61 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 1972 cover?

61.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 1972?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is School Life Expectancy, 1972 the newest?

No. The newest held here is School Life Expectancy, 2024.

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