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School Life Expectancy, 2002

Figures for 2002, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2002 covers 107 countries on 3 measures. Sweden is highest, at 18.557; Djibouti is lowest, at 3.549. The middle country reads 12.107. Against 2001, 92 values changed (75 up, 17 down), 15 countries joined, 11 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2002

HighestSweden

18.557

LowestDjibouti

3.549

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, 2002, 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 107 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2002: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.55720.141217.030
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.48319.134517.849
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe18.07718.912417.279
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.56018.434516.706
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.09117.806416.400
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.02217.628216.437
7ArgentinaARGSouth America16.33217.266315.425
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.26116.143116.376
9SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.24116.882415.637
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.20416.777715.645
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.12616.477715.777
12LibyaLBYNorthern Africa16.07916.528715.656
13SpainESPSouthern Europe15.97016.397015.564
14EstoniaESTNorthern Europe15.94816.979014.965
15South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.80514.835816.720
16ItalyITASouthern Europe15.64815.849515.451
17LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe15.63116.232315.036
18PolandPOLEastern Europe15.62216.106315.151
19LatviaLVANorthern Europe15.35916.195714.528
20UruguayURYSouth America15.13516.000714.282
21IsraelISRWestern Asia15.10315.476014.735
22HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.05515.409014.714
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.00115.283814.749
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe14.96214.621015.300
25MacauMACEastern Asia14.86713.701116.309

02In 2002

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Sweden18.557
  2. 2Belgium18.483
  3. 3Finland18.077
  4. 4Iceland17.560
  5. 5Norway17.091

Lowest

  1. 107Djibouti3.549
  2. 106Burundi4.931
  3. 105Ethiopia5.079
  4. 104Chad5.321
  5. 103Sudan5.381

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.107. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −11countries joined / left
  • 92values changed, of 92 in both
  • 75 · 17rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Chile+ Republic of the Congo+ Colombia+ Guatemala+ Jordan+ Libya+ Marshall Islands+ Nicaragua+ Suriname+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Timor-Leste+ Venezuela+ South Africa− Armenia− Burkina Faso− Belize− Barbados− China− Gabon− Kuwait− Myanmar− Sierra Leone− Togo− Vietnam

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.

  • 14 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) (2002). School Life Expectancy, 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2002

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2002?

Sweden, at 18.557, of the 107 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2002 cover?

107.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2002?

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, 2002 the newest?

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

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