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School Life Expectancy, 2009

Figures for 2009, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2009 covers 121 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 19.166; Niger is lowest, at 4.295. The middle country reads 13.416. Against 2008, 100 values changed (73 up, 27 down), 21 countries joined, 13 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2009

HighestBelgium

19.166

LowestNiger

4.295

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, 2009, 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 121 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.16620.101718.2432
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.98419.274716.7722
3IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.49317.671517.3203
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.35618.065816.6780
5CubaCUBCaribbean17.26118.653415.9396
6LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.18818.088616.2953
7SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.99417.908616.1560
8FinlandFINNorthern Europe16.88617.507516.2918
9GrenadaGRDCaribbean16.86717.586716.1843
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.84616.840916.8521
11South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.72415.867317.5059
12DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.71517.394316.0548
13ArgentinaARGSouth America16.67717.858015.5393
14RomaniaROUEastern Europe16.64317.354415.9732
15Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.60917.698215.5408
16EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.31817.490415.1958
17ItalyITASouthern Europe16.28216.794315.7875
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.22116.640915.8029
19British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean16.10417.374415.8235
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe15.99916.501615.5246
21BarbadosBRBCaribbean15.98817.353614.6183
22SpainESPSouthern Europe15.95916.437815.5053
23LatviaLVANorthern Europe15.93817.091714.8056
24PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.91016.173915.6578
25Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.90515.987115.8441

02In 2009

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Belgium19.166
  2. 2Iceland17.984
  3. 3Ireland17.493
  4. 4Norway17.356
  5. 5Cuba17.261

Lowest

  1. 121Niger4.295
  2. 120Central African Republic5.756
  3. 119Pakistan5.966
  4. 118Burkina Faso6.097
  5. 117Chad6.546

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.416. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestBelgium20.1017

    LowestNiger3.6572

    Middle country: 13.7020

  • Male

    HighestBelgium18.2432

    LowestNiger4.9080

    Middle country: 13.2391

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

What changed between 2008 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −13countries joined / left
  • 100values changed, of 100 in both
  • 73 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Romania15.419 → 16.643+1.224
  • Oman12.125 → 13.194+1.070
  • Nepal10.320 → 11.037+0.717
  • Bhutan10.731 → 11.330+0.599
  • Rwanda10.819 → 11.396+0.577

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burundi+ Barbados+ Central African Republic+ Algeria+ Egypt+ Eritrea+ Grenada+ Guatemala+ Kenya+ Kyrgyzstan+ Mongolia+ Montserrat+ Puerto Rico+ North Korea+ Saudi Arabia+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Timor-Leste+ British Virgin Islands+ South Africa− Anguilla− Andorra− Botswana− Cayman Islands− Guinea− Honduras− Cambodia− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Luxembourg− Malta− Senegal− San Marino− 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

  • 120 distinct values among 121

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 15 decimals. 2 countries share 10.832. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 10 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) (2009). School Life Expectancy, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2009

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2009: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2009?

Belgium, at 19.166, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2009 describe?

2009.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2009 cover?

121.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2009?

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, 2009 the newest?

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

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