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School Life Expectancy, 2001

Figures for 2001, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2001 covers 103 countries on 3 measures. Sweden is highest, at 18.684; Djibouti is lowest, at 3.407. The middle country reads 12.033. Against 2000, 58 values changed (50 up, 8 down), 45 countries joined, 16 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2001

HighestSweden

18.684

LowestDjibouti

3.407

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, 2001, 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 103 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2001: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.68420.42017.013
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.31018.90317.732
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.98118.77717.220
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.05017.78516.331
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.03117.69016.396
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe16.82717.39516.283
7NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.60216.47916.720
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.54717.11115.998
9ArgentinaARGSouth America16.24117.14415.363
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.03216.35915.712
11SpainESPSouthern Europe15.92316.27715.586
12SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe15.79216.36015.258
13EstoniaESTNorthern Europe15.65816.59914.758
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.63714.68416.536
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.47515.76615.204
16ItalyITASouthern Europe15.40915.65715.167
17PolandPOLEastern Europe15.26115.73814.800
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.09015.66614.526
19SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.06614.72715.396
20LatviaLVANorthern Europe14.88015.69914.071
21FranceFRAWestern Europe14.85215.07614.632
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe14.69414.99514.405
23UruguayURYSouth America14.68115.46313.908
24British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean14.63615.33813.971
25IsraelISRWestern Asia14.61014.99014.245

02In 2001

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sweden18.684
  2. 2Belgium18.310
  3. 3Finland17.981
  4. 4Iceland17.050
  5. 5Norway17.031

Lowest

  1. 103Djibouti3.407
  2. 102Burkina Faso3.431
  3. 101Burundi4.504
  4. 100Ethiopia4.809
  5. 99Chad5.033

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.033. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032000 → 2001

Since 2000

What changed between 2000 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +45 / −16countries joined / left
  • 58values changed, of 58 in both
  • 50 · 8rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Belgium+ Burkina Faso+ Bulgaria+ Belize+ China+ Cyprus+ Czechia+ Djibouti+ Denmark+ Algeria+ Egypt+ Spain+ Estonia+ Finland+ France+ Gabon+ Croatia+ Hungary+ Ireland+ Israel+ Italy+ Kuwait+ Lithuania+ Luxembourg+ Latvia+ Macau+ Malta+ Myanmar+ Mauritania+ Namibia+ Netherlands+ Norway+ Philippines+ Poland+ Qatar+ Romania+ Sudan+ Sierra Leone+ Serbia+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Sweden+ Thailand+ Türkiye− Canada− Chile− Colombia− Equatorial Guinea− Iraq− Jordan− Kazakhstan− Liberia− Mali− Palau− San Marino− Eswatini− United States− Uzbekistan− Venezuela− Samoa

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.

  • 26 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) (2001). School Life Expectancy, 2001 [data set], describing 2001. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2001

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2001: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2001?

Sweden, at 18.684, of the 103 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2001 describe?

2001.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2001 cover?

103.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2001?

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, 2001 the newest?

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

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