School Life Expectancy, 1984

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School Life Expectancy, 1984: 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	14.94	15.10	14.793
2	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	13.42	13.21	13.633
3	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	13.34	13.47	13.209
4	TongaTONPolynesia	13.05	13.25	12.869
5	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	12.91	11.71	14.130
6	Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean	12.61	12.41	12.811
7	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.48	—	—
8	ArgentinaARGSouth America	12.21	12.48	11.940
9	CubaCUBCaribbean	12.10	12.24	11.974
10	UkraineUKREastern Europe	12.08	—	—
11	JordanJORWestern Asia	12.01	11.64	12.361
12	GrenadaGRDCaribbean	11.96	12.34	11.593
13	BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	11.86	12.59	11.246
14	BahamasBHSCaribbean	11.65	—	—
15	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	11.48	10.92	12.009
16	DominicaDMACaribbean	11.40	—	—
17	SurinameSURSouth America	11.10	—	—
18	PanamaPANCentral America	11.02	11.19	10.847
19	QatarQATWestern Asia	11.01	12.93	9.951
20	PeruPERSouth America	10.99	—	—
21	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	10.88	10.96	10.799
22	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	10.84	10.88	10.823
23	GabonGABMiddle Africa	10.81	10.15	11.463
24	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	10.78	11.01	10.554
25	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	10.68	10.25	11.100

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.13. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States15.10

  LowestBurkina Faso1.20

  Middle country: 9.94

• Male

  HighestUnited States14.793

  LowestBurkina Faso2.088

  Middle country: 10.123

• +18 / −6countries joined / left
• 58values changed, of 58 in both
• 41 · 17rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Argentina+ Burundi+ Barbados+ China+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Dominica+ Ethiopia+ Fiji+ Guyana+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Laos+ Madagascar+ Myanmar+ Papua New Guinea+ Rwanda+ Sierra Leone+ Thailand+ Tonga− Bhutan− Central African Republic− Libya− Mongolia− Uruguay− United States Virgin Islands

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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