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School Life Expectancy, 1980

Figures for 1980, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 1980 covers 63 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 14.344; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 1.236. The middle country reads 8.494. Against 1979, 50 values changed (41 up, 9 down), 13 countries joined, 11 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 1980

HighestUnited States

14.344

LowestBurkina Faso

1.236

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, 1980, 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 63 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 1980: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America14.344——
2BermudaBMUNorthern America13.56914.0213.163
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.582——
4CubaCUBCaribbean12.12212.0712.168
5BahamasBHSCaribbean12.063——
6JordanJORWestern Asia11.96611.3512.549
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa11.96110.6013.325
8BelarusBLREastern Europe11.928——
9ArgentinaARGSouth America11.34811.5111.185
10GrenadaGRDCaribbean11.29011.5611.029
11PanamaPANCentral America11.14911.3210.984
12PeruPERSouth America10.8669.9011.348
13LibyaLBYNorthern Africa10.6819.6911.609
14FijiFJIMelanesia10.620——
15IraqIRQWestern Asia10.5288.4912.500
16LebanonLBNWestern Asia10.430——
17Saint LuciaLCACaribbean10.420——
18GabonGABMiddle Africa10.3549.7111.002
19MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia9.9939.7610.225
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia9.98610.089.892
21BahrainBHRWestern Asia9.9659.6310.240
22MauritiusMUSEastern Africa9.9169.969.874
23MongoliaMNGEastern Asia9.886——
24VenezuelaVENSouth America9.697——
25PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia9.468——

02In 1980

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States14.344
  2. 2Bermuda13.569
  3. 3Iceland12.582
  4. 4Cuba12.122
  5. 5Bahamas12.063

Lowest

  1. 63Burkina Faso1.236
  2. 62Niger1.549
  3. 61Burundi1.625
  4. 60Mali2.150
  5. 59Senegal3.369

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.494. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −11countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 50 in both
  • 41 · 9rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahamas+ Belarus+ Fiji+ Honduras+ India+ Iceland+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Saint Lucia+ Paraguay+ Qatar+ Senegal+ Vietnam− Brunei− Guinea− Liberia− Morocco− Myanmar− Mozambique− Saudi Arabia− Türkiye− Tanzania− Uruguay− Zambia

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.

  • 52 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) (1980). School Life Expectancy, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/1980

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 1980?

United States, at 14.344, of the 63 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 1980 cover?

63.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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