Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 2015

School Life Expectancy, 2015

Figures for 2015, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2015 covers 124 countries on 3 measures. Australia is highest, at 23.248; Niger is lowest, at 6.161. The middle country reads 14.494. Against 2014, 106 values changed (70 up, 36 down), 18 countries joined, 10 left.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

School Life Expectancy · Data for 2015

HighestAustralia

23.248

LowestNiger

6.161

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, 2015, 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, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand23.24823.5853022.912
2BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.79220.8310818.776
3IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.35320.5170118.230
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.31120.1343318.527
5DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe19.29720.0888218.525
6Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean19.05820.2154317.863
7New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.95119.7509318.136
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.91219.0100718.825
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.32119.6125817.087
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.26918.5041018.040
11Puerto RicoPRICaribbean18.07418.9647517.196
12TürkiyeTURWestern Asia17.78817.4062518.161
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.78318.4556417.148
14GrenadaGRDCaribbean17.70117.8830817.532
15ArgentinaARGSouth America17.53218.8986316.221
16SpainESPSouthern Europe17.42917.7595517.110
17United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.33817.7685316.904
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.27218.0260416.560
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.11217.0186217.202
20CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.95517.7618016.185
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.71517.2120716.227
22United StatesUSANorthern America16.59617.3535015.854
23South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.57015.9203317.139
24PolandPOLEastern Europe16.41217.2286015.626
25Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.39716.3851216.437

02In 2015

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia23.248
  2. 2Belgium19.792
  3. 3Iceland19.353
  4. 4Finland19.311
  5. 5Denmark19.297

Lowest

  1. 124Niger6.161
  2. 123Pakistan6.579
  3. 122Mali6.850
  4. 121Sudan7.069
  5. 120Chad7.140

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.494. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

What changed between 2014 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −10countries joined / left
  • 106values changed, of 106 in both
  • 70 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Switzerland+ Ecuador+ Grenada+ Jamaica+ Luxembourg+ Montenegro+ Mauritania+ Niger+ Netherlands+ Oman+ North Korea+ Portugal+ Romania+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Tanzania+ British Virgin Islands+ Vietnam− Aruba− Afghanistan− Comoros− Egypt− Guinea− Greece− Malawi− Saudi Arabia− Sint Maarten− Thailand

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) (2015). School Life Expectancy, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2015

0650 held

Other years

07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2015: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2015?

Australia, at 23.248, of the 124 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2015 describe?

2015.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2015 cover?

124.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2015?

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, 2015 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.