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School Life Expectancy, 1991

Figures for 1991, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 1991 covers 63 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 15.582; Mali is lowest, at 1.960. The middle country reads 10.230. Against 1990, 47 values changed (26 up, 21 down), 16 countries joined, 16 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 1991

HighestUnited States

15.582

LowestMali

1.960

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, 1991, 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 63 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 1991: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America15.58216.0715.126
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.247——
3United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean15.10215.1914.995
4ArgentinaARGSouth America13.336——
5UruguayURYSouth America13.188——
6BelarusBLREastern Europe12.724——
7BahrainBHRWestern Asia12.61613.2712.053
8CubaCUBCaribbean12.47913.0311.962
9RussiaRUSEastern Europe12.414——
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia12.37712.0312.731
11UkraineUKREastern Europe12.364——
12NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa12.06512.3911.730
13AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe11.95011.3412.558
14FijiFJIMelanesia11.945——
15QatarQATWestern Asia11.89114.3610.501
16KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia11.825——
17South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa11.80712.2211.412
18TajikistanTJKCentral Asia11.748——
19PeruPERSouth America11.679——
20KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia11.517——
21JordanJORWestern Asia11.30211.3111.298
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia11.211——
23JamaicaJAMCaribbean11.203——
24BotswanaBWASouthern Africa10.92811.2210.637
25Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean10.92510.9910.861

02In 1991

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States15.582
  2. 2Iceland15.247
  3. 3United States Virgin Islands15.102
  4. 4Argentina13.336
  5. 5Uruguay13.188

Lowest

  1. 63Mali1.960
  2. 62Burkina Faso2.504
  3. 61Guinea2.785
  4. 60Ethiopia2.806
  5. 59Angola3.698

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.230. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −16countries joined / left
  • 47values changed, of 47 in both
  • 26 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Armenia+ Bahrain+ Botswana+ Ethiopia+ Fiji+ Georgia+ Honduras+ Jamaica+ Cambodia+ Namibia+ El Salvador+ Tajikistan+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tanzania+ United States Virgin Islands− Afghanistan− Bangladesh− Barbados− Kuwait− Laos− Madagascar− Myanmar− Mauritius− Niger− Pakistan− Paraguay− Rwanda− Suriname− Thailand− Vietnam− Zambia

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.

  • 64 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) (1991). School Life Expectancy, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/1991

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 1991?

United States, at 15.582, of the 63 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 1991 cover?

63.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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