School Life Expectancy, 1982

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School Life Expectancy, 1982: 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	14.886	15.037	14.739
2	United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean	14.208	—	—
3	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	13.106	—	—
4	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	12.919	11.640	14.210
5	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	12.524	—	—
6	JordanJORWestern Asia	12.259	11.707	12.779
7	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.229	—	—
8	CubaCUBCaribbean	11.980	12.081	11.883
9	UkraineUKREastern Europe	11.942	—	—
10	UruguayURYSouth America	11.803	—	—
11	ArgentinaARGSouth America	11.694	11.893	11.498
12	BahamasBHSCaribbean	11.658	—	—
13	GrenadaGRDCaribbean	11.284	12.005	10.582
14	PeruPERSouth America	11.129	—	—
15	PanamaPANCentral America	10.955	11.129	10.784
16	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	10.917	10.943	10.890
17	SurinameSURSouth America	10.852	—	—
18	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	10.561	10.882	10.252
19	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	10.461	10.556	10.401
20	LebanonLBNWestern Asia	10.434	10.147	10.709
21	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	10.263	10.280	10.245
22	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	10.193	9.869	10.487
23	QatarQATWestern Asia	10.181	11.899	9.229
24	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	10.166	—	—
25	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	10.156	—	—

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.965. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States15.037

  LowestBurkina Faso1.042

  Middle country: 7.960

• Male

  HighestUnited States14.739

  LowestBurkina Faso1.808

  Middle country: 9.512

• +10 / −20countries joined / left
• 54values changed, of 54 in both
• 46 · 8rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Afghanistan+ Ghana+ Grenada+ Honduras+ Mali+ Malaysia+ Nicaragua+ Togo+ Tanzania+ United States Virgin Islands− Albania− Bangladesh− Botswana− China− Côte d’Ivoire− Fiji− Georgia− Guatemala− Haiti− Jamaica− Kazakhstan− Kenya− Laos− Libya− Mongolia− Russia− Rwanda− Sierra Leone− 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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