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School Life Expectancy, 2014

Figures for 2014, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2014 covers 116 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 19.7105; Pakistan is lowest, at 6.3109. The middle country reads 14.4221. Against 2013, 96 values changed (58 up, 38 down), 20 countries joined, 14 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2014

HighestIceland

19.7105

LowestPakistan

6.3109

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, 2014, 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 116 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2014: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.710520.961518.499
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.707820.722718.717
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.254220.086518.461
4DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe19.209019.980918.454
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.074919.863718.260
6IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.373718.591718.166
7Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean18.342417.979518.734
8SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.093519.424116.819
9GreeceGRCSouthern Europe17.874717.615018.124
10NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.677818.304317.085
11United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.516417.970217.060
12ArgentinaARGSouth America17.405118.742816.121
13SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.346318.069516.670
14TürkiyeTURWestern Asia17.317116.988217.635
15SpainESPSouthern Europe17.300117.647116.967
16GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.118416.965317.266
17CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.961417.741816.216
18LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.730517.274816.198
19South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.615715.896917.253
20United StatesUSANorthern America16.559517.331815.804
21Puerto RicoPRICaribbean16.329017.169815.502
22Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.313016.308516.347
23EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.269917.146515.436
24ChileCHLSouth America16.260616.421016.105
25PolandPOLEastern Europe16.206117.022815.420

02In 2014

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Iceland19.7105
  2. 2Belgium19.7078
  3. 3Finland19.2542
  4. 4Denmark19.2090
  5. 5New Zealand19.0749

Lowest

  1. 116Pakistan6.3109
  2. 115Sudan7.0209
  3. 114Mali7.0357
  4. 113Burkina Faso7.6379
  5. 112Chad7.6677

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.4221. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032013 → 2014

Since 2013

What changed between 2013 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −14countries joined / left
  • 96values changed, of 96 in both
  • 58 · 38rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Lebanon11.9032 → 10.4038−1.4994
  • Bahrain15.0633 → 14.5063−0.5569
  • Poland16.5932 → 16.2061−0.3871
  • Slovenia17.6833 → 17.3463−0.3370
  • Ghana11.0747 → 10.7455−0.3293
+ Afghanistan+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Dominican Republic+ Eritrea+ Guinea+ Ireland+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Kuwait+ Liechtenstein+ Madagascar+ Mongolia+ Malawi+ Panama+ Philippines+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Sint Maarten+ Chad+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ South Africa− Bhutan− Switzerland− DR Congo− Curaçao− Ecuador− Jamaica− Sri Lanka− Mauritania− Oman− Eswatini− Syria− Tajikistan− Tanzania− Zimbabwe

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) (2014). School Life Expectancy, 2014 [data set], describing 2014. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2014

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2014: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2014?

Iceland, at 19.7105, of the 116 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2014 describe?

2014.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2014 cover?

116.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2014?

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, 2014 the newest?

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

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