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School Life Expectancy, 2011

Figures for 2011, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2011 covers 124 countries on 3 measures. New Zealand is highest, at 19.50604; Niger is lowest, at 4.89322. The middle country reads 13.62484. Against 2010, 108 values changed (75 up, 33 down), 16 countries joined, 9 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2011

HighestNew Zealand

19.50604

LowestNiger

4.89322

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, 2011, 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 124 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2011: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.5060420.26618.7049
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.0488819.96218.1528
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.7450919.89617.6290
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.3543618.99917.7239
5IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.1099218.10618.1104
6NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe17.8815217.94117.8254
7NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.5229018.19516.8787
8ArgentinaARGSouth America17.2379418.51716.0057
9LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe17.1606817.94716.3908
10FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.1137517.72916.5256
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.0498516.96717.1295
12SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.9359218.01615.9374
13South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.8399215.99417.6057
14SpainESPSouthern Europe16.7514817.13416.3851
15EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.6350217.56415.7500
16Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.6099518.07615.1785
17ItalyITASouthern Europe16.3900516.90915.8943
18CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.3634716.90015.8537
19PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.3286216.52916.1355
20AustriaAUTWestern Europe16.17313——
21SwedenSWENorthern Europe15.8730016.63515.1416
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia15.8651915.90815.8570
23LatviaLVANorthern Europe15.7956916.56215.0430
24BelarusBLREastern Europe15.7819816.36915.2243
25United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe15.7794016.19015.3715

02In 2011

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1New Zealand19.50604
  2. 2Belgium19.04888
  3. 3Iceland18.74509
  4. 4Denmark18.35436
  5. 5Ireland18.10992

Lowest

  1. 124Niger4.89322
  2. 123Pakistan5.95702
  3. 122Central African Republic6.31230
  4. 121Sudan6.49377
  5. 120Burkina Faso6.96296

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 13.62484. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

What changed between 2010 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +16 / −9countries joined / left
  • 108values changed, of 108 in both
  • 75 · 33rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Denmark16.89029 → 18.35436+1.46407
  • Oman13.71625 → 14.97237+1.25612
  • Thailand12.41321 → 13.58779+1.17458
  • Paraguay13.28225 → 14.40076+1.11851
  • Angola9.25987 → 10.24201+0.98214

Fell most

  • Cuba16.24457 → 15.48632−0.75825
  • United Kingdom16.45924 → 15.77940−0.67984
  • Aruba13.93840 → 13.26134−0.67706
  • Romania16.19703 → 15.56466−0.63237
  • Malta15.55834 → 15.05199−0.50635
+ Afghanistan+ Benin+ Bahrain+ Central African Republic+ Cameroon+ DR Congo+ Costa Rica+ Ghana+ Guinea+ Madagascar+ New Zealand+ Pakistan+ Russia+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Togo− Burundi− Eritrea− Gambia− Honduras− Luxembourg− North Macedonia− São Tomé and Príncipe− Timor-Leste− Tanzania

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.

  • 8 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) (2011). School Life Expectancy, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2011

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2011: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2011?

New Zealand, at 19.50604, of the 124 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2011 describe?

2011.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2011 cover?

124.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2011?

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, 2011 the newest?

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

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