School Life Expectancy, 1995

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School Life Expectancy, 1995: 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	15.918	16.58	15.301
2	IcelandISLNorthern Europe	15.867	16.08	15.657
3	NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa	13.093	12.92	12.612
4	QatarQATWestern Asia	12.575	14.39	11.480
5	BahamasBHSCaribbean	12.330	12.61	12.049
6	BelarusBLREastern Europe	12.329	—	—
7	BahrainBHRWestern Asia	11.935	12.81	11.244
8	PeruPERSouth America	11.851	—	—
9	KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	11.766	12.16	11.379
10	RussiaRUSEastern Europe	11.657	—	—
11	CubaCUBCaribbean	11.463	11.96	10.997
12	TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa	11.216	10.77	11.635
13	PanamaPANCentral America	11.164	—	—
14	North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	11.030	10.78	11.280
15	GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia	11.028	10.89	11.154
16	BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	11.013	11.04	10.990
17	IranIRNSouthern Asia	10.736	—	—
18	MalawiMWIEastern Africa	10.590	9.81	11.380
19	ParaguayPRYSouth America	10.404	—	—
20	MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	10.327	—	—
21	PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia	10.306	—	—
22	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	10.223	9.87	10.576
23	TajikistanTJKCentral Asia	10.180	—	—
24	IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia	10.149	9.74	10.544
25	KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	10.131	—	—

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.027. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestUnited States16.58

  LowestEthiopia2.02

  Middle country: 9.78

• Male

  HighestIceland15.657

  LowestEthiopia3.154

  Middle country: 10.419

• +13 / −15countries joined / left
• 38values changed, of 38 in both
• 26 · 12rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Bahamas+ DR Congo+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Georgia+ Gambia+ India+ Iran+ Namibia+ Nicaragua+ Philippines+ Papua New Guinea+ Togo− United Arab Emirates− Armenia− Burundi− Burkina Faso− Brunei− Guinea− Honduras− Jordan− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Saint Lucia− El Salvador− Eswatini− Trinidad and Tobago− Ukraine− United States Virgin Islands

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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