School Life Expectancy, 1985

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School Life Expectancy, 1985: 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	14.851	15.04	14.66
2	BarbadosBRBCaribbean	13.723	13.71	13.73
3	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	13.508	—	—
4	ArgentinaARGSouth America	12.844	13.19	12.50
5	TongaTONPolynesia	12.771	13.11	12.46
6	Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean	12.647	11.92	13.37
7	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.607	—	—
8	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	12.376	11.43	13.33
9	UkraineUKREastern Europe	12.180	—	—
10	CubaCUBCaribbean	12.100	12.25	11.96
11	JordanJORWestern Asia	11.957	11.75	12.15
12	BahamasBHSCaribbean	11.836	—	—
13	ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa	11.610	—	—
14	SurinameSURSouth America	11.532	—	—
15	PeruPERSouth America	11.517	—	—
16	QatarQATWestern Asia	11.504	13.45	10.36
17	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	11.247	11.61	10.74
18	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	11.158	11.53	10.85
19	PanamaPANCentral America	11.037	11.25	10.82
20	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	10.952	10.99	10.93
21	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	10.912	10.39	11.41
22	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	10.884	10.96	10.81
23	Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia	10.650	10.71	10.59
24	FijiFJIMelanesia	10.544	10.37	10.72
25	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	10.228	10.17	10.29

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.339. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States15.04

  LowestChad1.20

  Middle country: 9.68

• Male

  HighestUnited States14.66

  LowestBurkina Faso2.30

  Middle country: 10.16

• +7 / −15countries joined / left
• 61values changed, of 61 in both
• 43 · 18rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Bahrain+ Central African Republic+ Lebanon+ Mozambique+ Eswatini+ Chad+ Uganda− Brunei− Dominica− Ethiopia− Gabon− Grenada− Haiti− Indonesia− India− Morocco− Madagascar− Niger− Papua New Guinea− El Salvador− Togo− Türkiye

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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