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School Life Expectancy, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2023 covers 105 countries on 3 measures. Greece is highest, at 20.905; Burkina Faso is lowest, at 7.275. The middle country reads 15.010. Against 2022, 88 values changed (42 up, 46 down), 17 countries joined, 15 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2023

HighestGreece

20.905

LowestBurkina Faso

7.275

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, 2023, 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 105 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe20.90521.12220.711
2AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand20.63721.40619.881
3FinlandFINNorthern Europe19.56620.79718.412
4New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand19.14119.56518.715
5BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.92320.04017.846
6TürkiyeTURWestern Asia18.80018.81218.791
7ArgentinaARGSouth America18.63220.50516.835
8NorwayNORNorthern Europe18.56319.45117.718
9SwedenSWENorthern Europe18.54420.21616.983
10NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe18.43218.94917.926
11DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe18.30718.89017.740
12TongaTONPolynesia18.18020.60216.007
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe18.13519.37017.024
14Hong KongHKGEastern Asia17.98917.91818.072
15SpainESPSouthern Europe17.74018.42817.080
16United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe17.73718.31117.155
17UruguayURYSouth America17.62318.95816.323
18PortugalPRTSouthern Europe17.54217.92617.172
19GermanyDEUWestern Europe17.46717.53017.409
20SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe17.41518.34216.595
21ChileCHLSouth America17.14117.37416.913
22PolandPOLEastern Europe16.96517.88816.079
23ItalyITASouthern Europe16.84017.41916.303
24CyprusCYPWestern Asia16.80517.62816.009
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia16.75116.89116.657

02In 2023

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1Greece20.905
  2. 2Australia20.637
  3. 3Finland19.566
  4. 4New Zealand19.141
  5. 5Belgium18.923

Lowest

  1. 105Burkina Faso7.275
  2. 104Pakistan7.771
  3. 103Laos9.049
  4. 102Senegal9.122
  5. 101Angola9.300

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 15.010. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −15countries joined / left
  • 88values changed, of 88 in both
  • 42 · 46rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Egypt+ Guatemala+ Kenya+ Kyrgyzstan+ Cambodia+ Nicaragua+ Netherlands+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ Russia+ Tonga+ Ukraine− Benin− Brazil− Colombia− Ghana− Ireland− Iran− Monaco− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Namibia− Saudi Arabia− Serbia− United States− Uzbekistan− Vietnam

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.

  • 4 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) (2023). School Life Expectancy, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2023

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2023?

Greece, at 20.905, of the 105 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2023 cover?

105.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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