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School Life Expectancy, 2008

Figures for 2008, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2008 covers 113 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 19.1373; Niger is lowest, at 4.0585. The middle country reads 13.3386. Against 2007, 97 values changed (62 up, 35 down), 16 countries joined, 14 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2008

HighestBelgium

19.1373

LowestNiger

4.0585

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, 2008, 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 113 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2008: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.137320.06918.220
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.005219.35216.755
3CubaCUBCaribbean17.487018.94016.113
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.378618.07716.708
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.261917.40017.128
6FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.104017.74816.488
7LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.098518.02316.180
8SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.056017.91016.249
9NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.803016.76716.841
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.715517.40916.039
11South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.691715.83517.475
12ItalyITASouthern Europe16.352216.83915.882
13ArgentinaARGSouth America16.344217.53315.200
14LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.322417.54515.125
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.297617.48415.153
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.053816.48715.622
17SpainESPSouthern Europe15.873716.36615.408
18AustriaAUTWestern Europe15.8611——
19SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.797416.57615.053
20PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.737516.00015.488
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.706215.65615.765
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.679916.08015.299
23BelarusBLREastern Europe15.537716.13014.971
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.486415.34215.630
25HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.448815.90115.011

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Belgium19.1373
  2. 2Iceland18.0052
  3. 3Cuba17.4870
  4. 4Norway17.3786
  5. 5Ireland17.2619

Lowest

  1. 113Niger4.0585
  2. 112Burkina Faso5.6727
  3. 111Pakistan5.9004
  4. 110Chad6.1361
  5. 109Sudan6.6508

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.3386. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestBelgium20.069

    LowestNiger3.430

    Middle country: 13.671

  • Male

    HighestBelgium18.220

    LowestNiger4.664

    Middle country: 13.103

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −14countries joined / left
  • 97values changed, of 97 in both
  • 62 · 35rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Ethiopia+ Guinea+ Gambia+ Honduras+ Jamaica+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Luxembourg+ Mali+ Mauritania+ Philippines+ Senegal+ San Marino+ Chad+ Venezuela+ Yemen− Antigua and Barbuda− Burundi− Barbados− Algeria− Egypt− Greece− Guatemala− Kenya− Kyrgyzstan− Myanmar− Malawi− Saudi Arabia− Togo− South Africa

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.

  • 12 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) (2008). School Life Expectancy, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2008

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2008?

Belgium, at 19.1373, of the 113 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2008 cover?

113.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2008?

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, 2008 the newest?

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

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