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School Life Expectancy, 2005

Figures for 2005, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2005 covers 115 countries on 3 measures. New Zealand is highest, at 19.12485; Niger is lowest, at 3.56128. The middle country reads 12.62252. Against 2004, 100 values changed (75 up, 25 down), 15 countries joined, 15 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2005

HighestNew Zealand

19.12485

LowestNiger

3.56128

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, 2005, 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 115 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2005: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.12485——
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.8353119.61018.079
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.1415619.26917.038
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.5599417.86617.271
5NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.4365718.15416.743
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.1905517.73016.673
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.7796917.40316.169
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.7774617.64115.918
9SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.7477817.48216.049
10United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.6133617.07116.158
11EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.4914417.58715.432
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.4328616.34316.522
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.4051517.49515.316
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.3612915.46617.197
15GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.3246716.54216.133
16ItalyITASouthern Europe16.1909416.62515.774
17United StatesUSANorthern America16.1081016.85615.377
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.0022516.76115.273
19SpainESPSouthern Europe15.9817416.45415.534
20ArgentinaARGSouth America15.9686416.93915.029
21FranceFRAWestern Europe15.4326415.72215.146
22PolandPOLEastern Europe15.3759415.92214.849
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.3645415.86814.874
24CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.2525915.45115.063
25SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.2228614.96615.479

02In 2005

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1New Zealand19.12485
  2. 2Belgium18.83531
  3. 3Iceland18.14156
  4. 4Ireland17.55994
  5. 5Norway17.43657

Lowest

  1. 115Niger3.56128
  2. 114Burkina Faso4.47648
  3. 113Chad5.37651
  4. 112Pakistan5.38372
  5. 111Sudan5.97337

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.62252. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestBelgium19.610

    LowestNiger2.917

    Middle country: 13.170

  • Male

    HighestBelgium18.079

    LowestNiger4.181

    Middle country: 12.590

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −15countries joined / left
  • 100values changed, of 100 in both
  • 75 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Bahrain+ Bhutan+ Guinea-Bissau+ Guyana+ Croatia+ Lesotho+ Madagascar+ Namibia+ Nepal+ New Zealand+ Russia+ Saudi Arabia+ United States− Afghanistan− Benin− Costa Rica− Djibouti− Egypt− Eritrea− Fiji− Iraq− Cambodia− Kuwait− Trinidad and Tobago− Uganda− Venezuela− British Virgin Islands− Vanuatu

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.

  • 16 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) (2005). School Life Expectancy, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2005

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2005?

New Zealand, at 19.12485, of the 115 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2005 cover?

115.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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