School Life Expectancy, 1988

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School Life Expectancy, 1988: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	School life expectancy, primary to tertiary (years)	Female	Male
1	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	13.76	—	—
2	Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean	13.21	13.25	13.17
3	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.97	—	—
4	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	12.72	—	—
5	UkraineUKREastern Europe	12.64	—	—
6	CubaCUBCaribbean	12.57	12.87	12.28
7	Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa	12.49	11.77	13.21
8	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	12.04	12.65	11.52
9	QatarQATWestern Asia	11.66	13.89	10.29
10	PeruPERSouth America	11.61	—	—
11	JordanJORWestern Asia	11.54	11.61	11.48
12	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	11.32	10.86	11.76
13	Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean	11.11	—	—
14	SurinameSURSouth America	11.08	11.52	10.65
15	GabonGABMiddle Africa	10.96	10.43	11.50
16	PanamaPANCentral America	10.84	11.04	10.64
17	SyriaSYRWestern Asia	10.59	9.42	11.72
18	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	10.42	10.52	10.33
19	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	10.34	—	—
20	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	10.32	10.34	10.31
21	VenezuelaVENSouth America	10.13	10.33	9.94
22	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	10.05	—	—
23	AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	9.93	—	—
24	MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	9.85	10.00	9.71
25	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	9.79	8.89	10.62

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 9.32. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestQatar13.89

  LowestPakistan2.65

  Middle country: 9.16

• Male

  HighestRepublic of the Congo13.21

  LowestBurundi4.68

  Middle country: 9.82

• +7 / −15countries joined / left
• 50values changed, of 50 in both
• 34 · 16rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Angola+ Laos+ Madagascar+ Sierra Leone+ El Salvador+ Thailand+ Ukraine− Argentina− Benin− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Guinea− Jamaica− Kenya− Saint Lucia− Mali− Mozambique− Nigeria− Nicaragua− Tanzania− United States− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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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