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School Life Expectancy, 2003

Figures for 2003, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2003 covers 109 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 18.7029; Niger is lowest, at 3.0017. The middle country reads 12.3778. Against 2002, 88 values changed (73 up, 15 down), 21 countries joined, 19 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2003

HighestBelgium

18.7029

LowestNiger

3.0017

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, 2003, 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 109 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2003: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.702919.28218.1380
2SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.556720.10917.0625
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe18.294419.06917.5548
4IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.244019.27017.2265
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.421918.17816.6920
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.225917.87416.5981
7SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.697917.22816.1972
8NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.361916.30316.4198
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.211516.84715.5801
10ArgentinaARGSouth America16.210317.20315.2470
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.108216.55715.6651
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.090717.20515.0213
13South KoreaKOREastern Asia15.978615.03516.8678
14ItalyITASouthern Europe15.912216.20615.6260
15SpainESPSouthern Europe15.890516.31315.4898
16LibyaLBYNorthern Africa15.834116.14515.5408
17PolandPOLEastern Europe15.807516.27815.3529
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.759816.27215.2607
19LatviaLVANorthern Europe15.721016.60414.8466
20UruguayURYSouth America15.545716.56214.5466
21HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.438415.88615.0044
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.163215.29915.0328
23GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.155915.41914.9207
24MacauMACEastern Asia15.143114.05316.5438
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.102014.78815.4128

02In 2003

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Belgium18.7029
  2. 2Sweden18.5567
  3. 3Finland18.2944
  4. 4Iceland18.2440
  5. 5Norway17.4219

Lowest

  1. 109Niger3.0017
  2. 108Burkina Faso3.7422
  3. 107Pakistan4.7325
  4. 106Ethiopia5.2038
  5. 105Chad5.4654

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.3778. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestSweden20.109

    LowestNiger2.427

    Middle country: 12.854

  • Male

    HighestBelgium18.1380

    LowestNiger3.5552

    Middle country: 12.4650

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −19countries joined / left
  • 88values changed, of 88 in both
  • 73 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Jamaica11.1184 → 10.4277−0.6907
  • Paraguay13.0634 → 12.4876−0.5758
  • Peru12.8164 → 12.3293−0.4871
  • Zimbabwe10.5072 → 10.2532−0.2541
  • Libya16.0786 → 15.8341−0.2445
+ Afghanistan+ Anguilla+ Burkina Faso+ Bahrain+ Belize+ Comoros+ Fiji+ Guyana+ Hong Kong+ Kuwait+ Liechtenstein+ Maldives+ Montenegro+ Niger+ Oman+ Pakistan+ Portugal+ Russia+ Togo+ Uzbekistan+ Yemen− Burundi− Colombia− Cayman Islands− Djibouti− Denmark− Eritrea− Guatemala− Kenya− Marshall Islands− Mozambique− Malawi− Nigeria− Nicaragua− Panama− Suriname− Eswatini− Thailand− Timor-Leste− British 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.

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) (2003). School Life Expectancy, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2003

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2003: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2003?

Belgium, at 18.7029, of the 109 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2003 describe?

2003.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2003 cover?

109.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2003?

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, 2003 the newest?

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

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