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School Life Expectancy, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2019 covers 109 countries on 3 measures. Australia is highest, at 21.3756; Pakistan is lowest, at 7.3538. The middle country reads 14.9457. Against 2018, 101 values changed (55 up, 46 down), 8 countries joined, 12 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2019

HighestAustralia

21.3756

LowestPakistan

7.3538

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, 2019, 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 109 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand21.375622.010220.747
2MonacoMCOWestern Europe20.989121.982020.048
3GreeceGRCSouthern Europe19.647619.693219.621
4BelgiumBELWestern Europe19.568420.620018.546
5New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.468820.033018.900
6TürkiyeTURWestern Asia19.185218.820619.540
7FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.043119.879418.253
8IrelandIRLNorthern Europe18.993919.298818.682
9SeychellesSYCEastern Africa18.676820.966817.132
10DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.620119.212818.046
11SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.522419.786017.322
12NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.235418.964117.546
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.235019.426817.156
14ArgentinaARGSouth America17.974019.509616.503
15SpainESPSouthern Europe17.572018.076217.084
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.329917.818116.833
17SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.325218.165716.565
18GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.224417.178517.268
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia16.908116.901816.940
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.741216.917816.624
21ChileCHLSouth America16.643616.884616.409
22United StatesUSANorthern America16.635517.352415.938
23PortugalPRTSouthern Europe16.593916.816316.378
24LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.541717.195215.918
25LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.465316.895316.045

02In 2019

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Australia21.3756
  2. 2Monaco20.9891
  3. 3Greece19.6476
  4. 4Belgium19.5684
  5. 5New Zealand19.4688

Lowest

  1. 109Pakistan7.3538
  2. 108Mauritania8.7223
  3. 107Senegal8.7564
  4. 106Tanzania8.8812
  5. 105Burkina Faso8.8851

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.9457. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +8 / −12countries joined / left
  • 101values changed, of 101 in both
  • 55 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guatemala+ Honduras+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Nepal+ Senegal+ Turkmenistan− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bangladesh− Bhutan− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Grenada− Sri Lanka− Myanmar− Netherlands− Puerto Rico− North Korea

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) (2019). School Life Expectancy, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2019

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2019?

Australia, at 21.3756, of the 109 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2019 cover?

109.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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