School Life Expectancy, 2024

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School Life Expectancy, 2024: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Positionderived	Country	School life expectancy, primary to tertiary (years)	Female	Male
1	MonacoMCOWestern Europe	21.007	22.040	19.997
2	AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand	20.630	21.430	19.846
3	FinlandFINNorthern Europe	19.632	20.905	18.437
4	New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand	19.213	19.687	18.742
5	Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	18.722	18.747	18.712
6	SwedenSWENorthern Europe	18.578	20.304	16.962
7	NorwayNORNorthern Europe	18.504	19.446	17.604
8	DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe	18.111	18.714	17.525
9	SpainESPSouthern Europe	17.738	18.430	17.075
10	CyprusCYPWestern Asia	17.605	18.600	16.662
11	MacauMACEastern Asia	17.496	17.793	17.205
12	GermanyDEUWestern Europe	17.337	17.474	17.210
13	ChileCHLSouth America	17.317	17.558	17.082
14	AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe	17.300	17.785	16.783
15	FijiFJIMelanesia	17.264	16.615	17.915
16	PolandPOLEastern Europe	17.135	18.111	16.197
17	Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	17.023	17.401	16.752
18	South KoreaKOREastern Asia	16.852	16.577	17.095
19	MoldovaMDAEastern Europe	16.514	17.152	15.829
20	SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe	16.510	16.684	16.346
21	AustriaAUTWestern Europe	16.205	16.783	15.664
22	BrazilBRASouth America	16.119	16.885	15.362
23	LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe	16.114	16.707	15.562
24	FranceFRAWestern Europe	16.064	16.602	15.545
25	HungaryHUNEastern Europe	16.006	16.381	15.650

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.593. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  HighestMonaco22.040

  LowestBurkina Faso7.675

  Middle country: 14.979

• Male

  HighestMonaco19.997

  LowestBurkina Faso7.289

  Middle country: 14.268

• +16 / −44countries joined / left
• 61values changed, of 61 in both
• 39 · 22rose · fell
• 0unchanged

+ Aruba+ Brazil+ Barbados+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Guyana+ Honduras+ Kiribati+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritius+ Oman+ Saudi Arabia+ San Marino+ Serbia+ Uzbekistan− Angola− Argentina− Belgium− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bermuda− Brunei− Canada− Cameroon− Czechia− Ecuador− United Kingdom− Georgia− Greece− Guatemala− Croatia− Indonesia− Iceland− Italy− Japan− Kenya− Cambodia− Laos− Lebanon− Saint Lucia− Sri Lanka− North Macedonia− Malta− Montenegro− Mongolia− Nicaragua− Netherlands− Puerto Rico− Portugal− Palestine− Romania− Russia− Senegal− Singapore− Slovenia− Turks and Caicos Islands− Tonga− Türkiye− Uruguay− South Africa

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.

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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.

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