Total > 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 > Total (most recent) by country

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Rank

Countries

Amount

# 1

Norway:

16.9 years

# 2

Finland:

16.7 years

# 3

Australia:

16.6 years

# 4

United Kingdom:

16.4 years

# 5

New Zealand:

16.2 years

# 6

Sweden:

16 years

# 7

Netherlands:

15.9 years

= 8

Belgium:

15.8 years

= 8

Iceland:

15.8 years

# 10

Denmark:

15.6 years

# 11

France:

15.4 years

= 12

Germany:

15.3 years

= 12

Spain:

15.3 years

= 14

United States:

15.2 years

= 14

Portugal:

15.2 years

# 16

Switzerland:

15 years

# 17

Ireland:

14.9 years

# 18

Canada:

14.8 years

= 19

Austria:

14.7 years

= 19

Italy:

14.7 years

= 21

Israel:

14.6 years

= 21

Korea, South:

14.6 years

# 23

Poland:

14.4 years

= 24

Japan:

14.3 years

= 24

Argentina:

14.3 years

= 24

Greece:

14.3 years

= 27

Estonia:

14.1 years

= 27

Slovenia:

14.1 years

= 27

South Africa:

14.1 years

# 30

Uruguay:

13.7 years

# 31

Hungary:

13.6 years

= 32

Bahrain:

13.5 years

= 32

Czech Republic:

13.5 years

= 32

Chile:

13.5 years

= 32

Tunisia:

13.5 years

= 36

Malta:

13.4 years

= 36

Brazil:

13.4 years

= 38

Luxembourg:

13.1 years

= 38

Qatar:

13.1 years

# 40

Lebanon:

12.8 years

# 41

Bulgaria:

12.7 years

= 42

Peru:

12.4 years

= 42

Barbados:

12.4 years

= 44

Samoa:

12 years

= 44

Cuba:

12 years

= 44

Botswana:

12 years

= 44

Namibia:

12 years

# 48

Netherlands Antilles:

11.8 years

# 49

Macedonia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of:

11.7 years

= 50

Lithuania:

11.6 years

= 50

Romania:

11.6 years

= 50

Swaziland:

11.6 years

= 53

Algeria:

11.5 years

= 53

Mexico:

11.5 years

= 53

Trinidad and Tobago:

11.5 years

= 53

Malaysia:

11.5 years

# 57

Croatia:

11.4 years

= 58

Iran:

11.3 years

= 58

Panama:

11.3 years

= 60

Latvia:

11.2 years

= 60

Philippines:

11.2 years

# 62

Georgia:

11 years

# 63

Venezuela:

10.9 years

= 64

Thailand:

10.8 years

= 64

Cyprus:

10.8 years

= 64

Jamaica:

10.8 years

# 67

United Arab Emirates:

10.7 years

= 68

Azerbaijan:

10.6 years

= 68

Togo:

10.6 years

# 70

Serbia and Montenegro:

10.5 years

# 71

Vietnam:

10.4 years

# 72

Egypt:

10.3 years

# 73

Costa Rica:

10.1 years

= 74

Colombia:

10 years

= 74

Indonesia:

10 years

= 74

Paraguay:

10 years

= 77

Bolivia:

9.9 years

= 77

Guyana:

9.9 years

# 79

El Salvador:

9.8 years

# 80

Lesotho:

9.6 years

= 81

Liberia:

9.5 years

= 81

Syria:

9.5 years

= 81

Turkey:

9.5 years

# 84

Iraq:

9.1 years

= 85

Jordan:

9 years

= 85

Saudi Arabia:

9 years

# 87

Oman:

8.8 years

= 88

Honduras:

8.7 years

= 88

Kuwait:

8.7 years

# 90

Yemen:

8.5 years

# 91

Laos:

8.3 years

# 92

Morocco:

8.2 years

# 93

Mongolia:

7.7 years

# 94

Cambodia:

7.3 years

= 95

Benin:

7 years

= 95

Zambia:

7 years

# 97

Madagascar:

6.2 years

# 98

Papua New Guinea:

6.1 years

# 99

Mozambique:

5.4 years

# 100

Bangladesh:

5.1 years

# 101

Tanzania:

5 years

# 102

Burundi:

4.9 years

# 103

Eritrea:

4.6 years

= 104

Ethiopia:

4.3 years

= 104

Congo, Democratic Republic of the:

4.3 years

# 106

Chad:

3.9 years

# 107

Djibouti:

3.4 years

# 108

Burkina Faso:

2.8 years

# 109

Niger:

2.3 years

# 110

Mali:

2.1 years

Weighted average:

11.2 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 via NationMaster

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

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