School Life Expectancy, 1979

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School Life Expectancy, 1979: 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	12.898	—	—
2	BermudaBMUNorthern America	12.880	13.333	12.47
3	JordanJORWestern Asia	11.663	10.889	12.39
4	CubaCUBCaribbean	11.630	11.578	11.68
5	ArgentinaARGSouth America	11.328	11.461	11.20
6	PanamaPANCentral America	11.326	11.441	11.21
7	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	11.243	—	—
8	GrenadaGRDCaribbean	11.131	11.327	10.94
9	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	11.108	11.797	10.54
10	UruguayURYSouth America	10.689	10.910	10.47
11	PeruPERSouth America	10.570	—	—
12	LibyaLBYNorthern Africa	10.566	9.517	11.56
13	GabonGABMiddle Africa	10.243	9.521	10.97
14	IraqIRQWestern Asia	10.100	7.895	12.24
15	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	9.996	—	—
16	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	9.883	9.842	9.92
17	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	9.797	9.495	10.07
18	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	9.778	9.844	9.72
19	MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	9.675	—	—
20	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	9.625	—	—
21	VenezuelaVENSouth America	9.525	—	—
22	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	9.129	7.038	11.14
23	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	9.126	6.729	11.12
24	EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	8.814	—	—
25	KenyaKENEastern Africa	8.775	—	—

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.775. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestBermuda13.333

  LowestBurkina Faso0.840

  Middle country: 7.038

• Male

  HighestBermuda12.47

  LowestBurkina Faso1.48

  Middle country: 9.30

• +16 / −13countries joined / left
• 45values changed, of 45 in both
• 35 · 10rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Cameroon+ Grenada+ Haiti+ Madagascar+ Myanmar+ Mongolia+ Malaysia+ Nicaragua+ Peru+ Saudi Arabia+ Eswatini+ Uruguay− Afghanistan− Albania− Guatemala− Honduras− Indonesia− India− Iceland− Saint Lucia− Senegal− Sierra Leone− El Salvador− Tonga− Samoa

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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