School Life Expectancy, 1978

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School Life Expectancy, 1978: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	School life expectancy, primary to tertiary (years)	Female	Male
1	United StatesUSANorthern America	13.260	—	—
2	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	12.564	—	—
3	TongaTONPolynesia	11.979	11.94	12.02
4	PanamaPANCentral America	11.438	11.52	11.36
5	CubaCUBCaribbean	11.360	—	—
6	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	11.342	10.82	11.85
7	JordanJORWestern Asia	11.305	10.38	12.18
8	ArgentinaARGSouth America	11.276	11.48	11.08
9	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	10.972	9.66	12.28
10	SamoaWSMPolynesia	10.577	—	—
11	GabonGABMiddle Africa	10.574	9.77	11.39
12	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	10.105	—	—
13	LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	10.073	8.96	11.12
14	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	10.001	9.92	10.07
15	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	9.629	9.67	9.72
16	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	9.511	9.35	9.69
17	VenezuelaVENSouth America	9.359	—	—
18	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	9.174	—	—
19	IraqIRQWestern Asia	9.035	6.39	11.60
20	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	9.007	6.84	11.09
21	ChinaCHNEastern Asia	8.775	7.92	9.59
22	El SalvadorSLVCentral America	8.273	7.98	8.56
23	United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia	8.106	8.65	7.82
24	LesothoLSOSouthern Africa	7.972	9.38	6.56
25	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	7.702	6.00	9.35

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.517. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestTonga11.94

  LowestNiger0.92

  Middle country: 7.05

• Male

  HighestRepublic of the Congo12.28

  LowestNiger1.72

  Middle country: 8.96

• +6 / −13countries joined / left
• 52values changed, of 52 in both
• 41 · 11rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Liberia+ Senegal+ Tonga+ Venezuela− Bangladesh− Brunei− Iran− Jamaica− Myanmar− Nicaragua− Peru− Qatar− Eswatini− Chad− Trinidad and Tobago− Uruguay− Vietnam

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.

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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.

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