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School Life Expectancy, 2017

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2017 covers 117 countries on 3 measures. Australia is highest, at 21.951; Niger is lowest, at 6.700. The middle country reads 14.747. Against 2016, 110 values changed (67 up, 43 down), 7 countries joined, 7 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2017

HighestAustralia

21.951

LowestNiger

6.700

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, 2017, 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, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.95122.397921.5083
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe21.11321.854120.4065
3BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.76120.767618.7829
4SeychellesSYCEastern Africa19.69421.551818.6555
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.37520.212118.5818
6GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.03318.867919.2055
7SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.86419.918317.8614
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.86318.942718.7889
9DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.82419.450618.2169
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.74019.851117.6896
11TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.67318.125019.2039
12New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand18.46419.380017.5490
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.40418.658318.1549
14NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.06018.785217.3758
15ArgentinaARGSouth America17.74119.161916.3789
16SpainESPSouthern Europe17.52717.947317.1207
17GrenadaGRDCaribbean17.50117.878717.1489
18United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.47517.940917.0032
19SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.47318.233616.7579
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe16.99016.996216.9859
21LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.91317.342816.4886
22CzechiaCZEEastern Europe16.67817.437215.9534
23SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.67616.874816.5392
24United StatesUSANorthern America16.67217.340716.0201
25ChileCHLSouth America16.53316.766216.3069

02In 2017

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.951
  2. 2Monaco21.113
  3. 3Belgium19.761
  4. 4Seychelles19.694
  5. 5Finland19.375

Lowest

  1. 117Niger6.700
  2. 116Pakistan6.795
  3. 115Mali6.941
  4. 114Tanzania8.060
  5. 113Mauritania8.098

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.747. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −7countries joined / left
  • 110values changed, of 110 in both
  • 67 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ United Kingdom+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Morocco+ North Macedonia+ Mozambique+ Togo− Benin− Cameroon− Marshall Islands− Panama− Puerto Rico− Tunisia− British Virgin Islands

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) (2017). School Life Expectancy, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2017

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2017?

Australia, at 21.951, of the 117 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2017 cover?

117.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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