School Life Expectancy, 1987

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School Life Expectancy, 1987: 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	15.145	15.4165	14.89
2	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	13.786	—	—
3	ArgentinaARGSouth America	13.295	13.5353	12.85
4	Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean	13.294	13.2793	13.31
5	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	13.066	—	—
6	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.955	—	—
7	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	12.753	—	—
8	CubaCUBCaribbean	12.431	12.6801	12.20
9	JordanJORWestern Asia	11.636	11.5218	11.74
10	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	11.635	12.1024	11.23
11	QatarQATWestern Asia	11.511	13.8146	10.09
12	GabonGABMiddle Africa	11.404	10.8074	12.00
13	PeruPERSouth America	11.360	—	—
14	Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean	11.333	12.0225	10.69
15	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	11.187	10.6729	11.69
16	Saint LuciaLCACaribbean	11.093	11.4549	10.75
17	SurinameSURSouth America	11.072	11.4552	10.71
18	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	11.040	11.0905	10.99
19	PanamaPANCentral America	11.037	11.2998	10.78
20	JamaicaJAMCaribbean	10.835	—	—
21	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	10.626	9.4053	11.80
22	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	10.593	10.6386	10.56
23	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	10.451	—	—
24	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	10.335	—	—
25	VenezuelaVENSouth America	10.122	10.4064	9.84

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.360. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States15.4165

  LowestMali1.1811

  Middle country: 9.1843

• Male

  HighestUnited States14.89

  LowestMali2.15

  Middle country: 9.86

• +11 / −22countries joined / left
• 54values changed, of 54 in both
• 32 · 22rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Algeria+ Gabon+ Jamaica+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Malaysia+ Togo− Afghanistan− Bahamas− Brunei− Djibouti− Dominican Republic− Fiji− Guatemala− Guyana− Haiti− Kazakhstan− Kyrgyzstan− Laos− Sri Lanka− Mongolia− Papua New Guinea− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Thailand− Ukraine− Uzbekistan− United States Virgin Islands− Zimbabwe

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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