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DEFINITION
School life expectancy and transition from primary to secondary for school years 1998/99 and 1999/00, published in http://www.uis.unesco.org accessed on Sept. 2002 and Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), Version 4, CD-ROM (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.XVII.4) based on data provided by UNESCO in 1999.

Education Statistics > School life expectancy > Female (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount (top to bottom)

Norway:

17.6 years

Finland:

17.2 years

Sweden:

17 years

United Kingdom:

16.8 years

Australia:

16.8 years

New Zealand:

16.7 years

Iceland:

16.5 years

Denmark:

16 years

Belgium:

16 years

#10

Netherlands:

15.8 years

#11

Portugal:

15.7 years

#12

United States:

15.7 years

#13

France:

15.7 years

#14

Spain:

15.6 years

#15

Canada:

15.3 years

#16

Ireland:

15.3 years

#17

Germany:

15.2 years

#18

Israel:

15.1 years

#19

Argentina:

15.1 years

#20

Italy:

14.8 years

#21

Poland:

14.7 years

#22

Austria:

14.7 years

#23

Slovenia:

14.6 years

#24

Estonia:

14.5 years

#25

Switzerland:

14.5 years

#26

Uruguay:

14.4 years

#27

Greece:

14.4 years

#28

Japan:

14.1 years

#29

South Africa:

14.1 years

#30

Qatar:

14 years

#31

Korea, South:

13.9 years

#32

Hungary:

13.8 years

#33

Bahrain:

13.8 years

#34

Brazil:

13.6 years

#35

Czech Republic:

13.5 years

#36

Tunisia:

13.5 years

#37

Luxembourg:

13.4 years

#38

Chile:

13.4 years

#39

Malta:

13.3 years

#40

Barbados:

13.1 years

#41

Lebanon:

13 years

#42

Bulgaria:

12.9 years

#43

Samoa:

12.3 years

#44

Namibia:

12.2 years

#45

Cuba:

12.1 years

#46

Netherlands Antilles:

12 years

#47

Botswana:

12 years

#48

Trinidad and Tobago:

11.7 years

#49

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

11.7 years

#50

Malaysia:

11.7 years

#51

Romania:

11.6 years

#52

Mexico:

11.5 years

#53

Lithuania:

11.5 years

#54

Croatia:

11.5 years

#55

Swaziland:

11.3 years

#56

Latvia:

11.3 years

#57

United Arab Emirates:

11.2 years

#58

Cyprus:

11.1 years

#59

Georgia:

11.1 years

#60

Jamaica:

11.1 years

#61

Thailand:

10.8 years

#62

Serbia and Montenegro:

10.7 years

#63

Azerbaijan:

10.5 years

#64

Iran:

10.5 years

#65

Lesotho:

10.1 years

#66

Paraguay:

10 years

#67

El Salvador:

9.9 years

#68

Guyana:

9.9 years

#69

Indonesia:

9.6 years

#70

Egypt:

9.3 years

#71

Kuwait:

9.2 years

#72

Jordan:

9.1 years

#73

Syria:

8.8 years

#74

Oman:

8.6 years

#75

Togo:

8.5 years

#76

Turkey:

8.5 years

#77

Mongolia:

8.2 years

#78

Iraq:

7.7 years

#79

Laos:

7.4 years

#80

Morocco:

7.4 years

#81

Liberia:

6.9 years

#82

Zambia:

6.6 years

#83

Cambodia:

6.5 years

#84

Madagascar:

6 years

#85

Papua New Guinea:

5.7 years

#86

Yemen:

5.3 years

#87

Benin:

5.2 years

#88

Tanzania:

5 years

#89

Mozambique:

4.5 years

#90

Burundi:

4.3 years

#91

Bangladesh:

4.2 years

#92

Eritrea:

4 years

#93

Ethiopia:

3.2 years

#94

Djibouti:

2.8 years

#95

Burkina Faso:

2.2 years

#96

Mali:

1.4 years

Weighted average:

11.4 years

DEFINITION: School life expectancy and transition from primary to secondary for school years 1998/99 and 1999/00, published in http://www.uis.unesco.org accessed on Sept. 2002 and Women's Indicators and Statistics Database (Wistat), Version 4, CD-ROM (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.00.XVII.4) based on data provided by UNESCO in 1999.

SOURCE: UNESCO Institute for Statistics

Education Statistics > School life expectancy > Female (most recent) by country

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