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School Life Expectancy, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2006 covers 110 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 19.054; Niger is lowest, at 3.704. The middle country reads 12.860. Against 2005, 103 values changed (81 up, 22 down), 7 countries joined, 12 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2006

HighestBelgium

19.054

LowestNiger

3.704

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, 2006, 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 110 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.05419.85618.2658
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.12919.33116.9743
3NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.53118.24116.8449
4IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.44917.68117.2227
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.17617.76116.6143
6LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.09917.97616.2265
7SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.89117.72116.1018
8DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.64617.26016.0445
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.55216.47516.6300
10South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.48015.59417.2983
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe16.47616.66716.3035
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.45717.63515.3251
13LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.42917.54015.3206
14ItalyITASouthern Europe16.31416.78215.8643
15ArgentinaARGSouth America16.12817.24115.0548
16CubaCUBCaribbean16.03917.08815.0459
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.03316.51815.5512
18SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.96116.71315.2383
19SpainESPSouthern Europe15.93116.41215.4756
20HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.45115.98614.9307
21FranceFRAWestern Europe15.41815.70315.1367
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.38415.64015.1373
23PolandPOLEastern Europe15.38015.90014.8775
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.31315.08415.5414
25BelarusBLREastern Europe15.23315.62714.8549

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Belgium19.054
  2. 2Iceland18.129
  3. 3Norway17.531
  4. 4Ireland17.449
  5. 5Finland17.176

Lowest

  1. 110Niger3.704
  2. 109Burkina Faso4.753
  3. 108Pakistan5.531
  4. 107Sudan6.225
  5. 106Senegal6.910

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.860. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestBelgium19.856

    LowestNiger3.040

    Middle country: 13.453

  • Male

    HighestBelgium18.2658

    LowestNiger4.3415

    Middle country: 12.7940

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −12countries joined / left
  • 103values changed, of 103 in both
  • 81 · 22rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Azerbaijan+ Bermuda+ China+ Cayman Islands+ Kazakhstan+ Cambodia+ Luxembourg− Ethiopia− Guyana− Jamaica− Kenya− North Macedonia− Nigeria− New Zealand− Paraguay− Saudi Arabia− Chad− United States− Yemen

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.

  • 6 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) (2006). School Life Expectancy, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2006

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2006?

Belgium, at 19.054, of the 110 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2006 cover?

110.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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