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School Life Expectancy, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2016 covers 117 countries on 3 measures. Australia is highest, at 22.8563; Niger is lowest, at 6.4857. The middle country reads 14.7661. Against 2015, 106 values changed (57 up, 49 down), 11 countries joined, 18 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2016

HighestAustralia

22.8563

LowestNiger

6.4857

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, 2016, 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 117 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand22.856323.20122.5149
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.760621.39520.1600
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.656920.66318.6809
4FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.310820.11718.5442
5IcelandISLNorthern Europe19.066920.26617.9151
6DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe19.039519.71518.3836
7IrelandIRLNorthern Europe19.000319.07318.9343
8GreeceGRCSouthern Europe18.716018.44818.9873
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.423419.60717.2962
10TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.274817.85918.6796
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.137618.35417.9254
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand17.983318.85917.1063
13NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.940718.66417.2583
14ArgentinaARGSouth America17.784519.18816.4357
15GrenadaGRDCaribbean17.718718.29317.1788
16SeychellesSYCEastern Africa17.501418.27717.0653
17SpainESPSouthern Europe17.473617.84317.1172
18SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.457518.21416.7438
19Puerto RicoPRICaribbean17.019417.90216.1471
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.875216.91416.8403
21CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.786117.56316.0433
22LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.767017.20716.3338
23United StatesUSANorthern America16.673017.35116.0083
24SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.639116.79516.5525
25PolandPOLEastern Europe16.627317.45415.8304

02In 2016

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia22.8563
  2. 2Monaco20.7606
  3. 3Belgium19.6569
  4. 4Finland19.3108
  5. 5Iceland19.0669

Lowest

  1. 117Niger6.4857
  2. 116Pakistan6.8853
  3. 115Mali6.8992
  4. 114Tanzania7.7009
  5. 113Mauritania8.2016

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.7661. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −18countries joined / left
  • 106values changed, of 106 in both
  • 57 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bangladesh+ Egypt+ Greece+ Jordan+ Sri Lanka+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Peru+ Saudi Arabia+ Singapore+ Thailand− Bermuda− Ecuador− Eritrea− United Kingdom− Guatemala− Jamaica− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Kuwait− Lesotho− North Macedonia− Mozambique− North Korea− Sudan− Senegal− São Tomé and Príncipe− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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.

  • 2 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) (2016). School Life Expectancy, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2016

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2016: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2016?

Australia, at 22.8563, of the 117 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2016 describe?

2016.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2016 cover?

117.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2016?

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, 2016 the newest?

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

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