Female > School Life Expectancy statistics - countries compared

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

# 1

Norway:

17.6 years

# 2

Finland:

17.2 years

# 3

Sweden:

17 years

= 4

Australia:

16.8 years

= 4

United Kingdom:

16.8 years

# 6

New Zealand:

16.7 years

# 7

Iceland:

16.5 years

= 8

Belgium:

16 years

= 8

Denmark:

16 years

# 10

Netherlands:

15.8 years

= 11

France:

15.7 years

= 11

United States:

15.7 years

= 11

Portugal:

15.7 years

# 14

Spain:

15.6 years

= 15

Canada:

15.3 years

= 15

Ireland:

15.3 years

# 17

Germany:

15.2 years

= 18

Argentina:

15.1 years

= 18

Israel:

15.1 years

# 20

Italy:

14.8 years

= 21

Austria:

14.7 years

= 21

Poland:

14.7 years

# 23

Slovenia:

14.6 years

= 24

Estonia:

14.5 years

= 24

Switzerland:

14.5 years

= 26

Uruguay:

14.4 years

= 26

Greece:

14.4 years

= 28

South Africa:

14.1 years

= 28

Japan:

14.1 years

# 30

Qatar:

14 years

# 31

Korea, South:

13.9 years

= 32

Bahrain:

13.8 years

= 32

Hungary:

13.8 years

# 34

Brazil:

13.6 years

= 35

Czech Republic:

13.5 years

= 35

Tunisia:

13.5 years

= 37

Luxembourg:

13.4 years

= 37

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

Botswana:

12 years

= 46

Netherlands Antilles:

12 years

= 48

Trinidad and Tobago:

11.7 years

= 48

Malaysia:

11.7 years

= 48

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

11.7 years

# 51

Romania:

11.6 years

= 52

Croatia:

11.5 years

= 52

Lithuania:

11.5 years

= 52

Mexico:

11.5 years

= 55

Swaziland:

11.3 years

= 55

Latvia:

11.3 years

# 57

United Arab Emirates:

11.2 years

= 58

Georgia:

11.1 years

= 58

Cyprus:

11.1 years

= 58

Jamaica:

11.1 years

# 61

Thailand:

10.8 years

# 62

Serbia and Montenegro:

10.7 years

= 63

Azerbaijan:

10.5 years

= 63

Iran:

10.5 years

# 65

Lesotho:

10.1 years

# 66

Paraguay:

10 years

= 67

Guyana:

9.9 years

= 67

El Salvador:

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

= 75

Turkey:

8.5 years

# 77

Mongolia:

8.2 years

# 78

Iraq:

7.7 years

= 79

Morocco:

7.4 years

= 79

Laos:

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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