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School Life Expectancy, 1988

Figures for 1988, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 1988 covers 57 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 13.76; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 2.22. The middle country reads 9.32. Against 1987, 50 values changed (34 up, 16 down), 7 countries joined, 15 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 1988

HighestIceland

13.76

LowestBurkina Faso

2.22

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of School Life Expectancy, 1988, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 57 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 1988: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe13.76——
2Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean13.2113.2513.17
3BelarusBLREastern Europe12.97——
4RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.72——
5UkraineUKREastern Europe12.64——
6CubaCUBCaribbean12.5712.8712.28
7Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa12.4911.7713.21
8BahrainBHRWestern Asia12.0412.6511.52
9QatarQATWestern Asia11.6613.8910.29
10PeruPERSouth America11.61——
11JordanJORWestern Asia11.5411.6111.48
12AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe11.3210.8611.76
13Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean11.11——
14SurinameSURSouth America11.0811.5210.65
15GabonGABMiddle Africa10.9610.4311.50
16PanamaPANCentral America10.8411.0410.64
17SyriaSYRWestern Asia10.599.4211.72
18KuwaitKWTWestern Asia10.4210.5210.33
19IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia10.34——
20MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia10.3210.3410.31
21VenezuelaVENSouth America10.1310.339.94
22PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia10.05——
23AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa9.93——
24MauritiusMUSEastern Africa9.8510.009.71
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa9.798.8910.62

02In 1988

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Iceland13.76
  2. 2Saint Kitts and Nevis13.21
  3. 3Belarus12.97
  4. 4Russia12.72
  5. 5Ukraine12.64

Lowest

  1. 57Burkina Faso2.22
  2. 56Ethiopia3.55
  3. 55Mauritania4.08
  4. 54Pakistan4.10
  5. 53Burundi4.11

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

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

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

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored
  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 46 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1988). School Life Expectancy, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/1988

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 1988?

Iceland, at 13.76, of the 57 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 1988 cover?

57.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 1988?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is School Life Expectancy, 1988 the newest?

No. The newest held here is School Life Expectancy, 2024.

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