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Data for 1992
Figures for 1992, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten
School Life Expectancy, 1992 covers 58 countries on 3 measures. Iceland is highest, at 15.574; Niger is lowest, at 2.062. The middle country reads 10.101. Against 1991, 47 values changed (20 up, 27 down), 11 countries joined, 16 left.
School Life Expectancy · Data for 1992
HighestIceland
15.574LowestNiger
2.062Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.
01Position · derived
Every country and every column of School Life Expectancy, 1992, 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 58 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15.574 | — | — | |
| 2 | 15.545 | — | — | |
| 3 | 13.175 | 13.13 | 13.215 | |
| 4 | 13.005 | — | — | |
| 5 | 12.807 | 13.40 | 12.280 | |
| 6 | 12.459 | — | — | |
| 7 | 12.370 | 13.31 | 11.836 | |
| 8 | 12.311 | 12.94 | 11.719 | |
| 9 | 12.190 | — | — | |
| 10 | 12.147 | — | — | |
| 11 | 11.827 | 14.10 | 10.598 | |
| 12 | 11.652 | — | — | |
| 13 | 11.631 | — | — | |
| 14 | 11.621 | 11.79 | 11.468 | |
| 15 | 11.438 | — | — | |
| 16 | 11.299 | — | — | |
| 17 | 10.874 | 10.89 | 10.861 | |
| 18 | 10.868 | — | — | |
| 19 | 10.841 | — | — | |
| 20 | 10.824 | 10.60 | 11.049 | |
| 21 | 10.752 | 11.04 | 10.477 | |
| 22 | 10.731 | 9.97 | 11.474 | |
| 23 | 10.609 | — | — | |
| 24 | 10.424 | — | — | |
| 25 | 10.381 | — | — | |
| 26 | 10.251 | 9.62 | 10.837 | |
| 27 | 10.190 | — | — | |
| 28 | 10.128 | 9.27 | 10.954 | |
| 29 | 10.119 | 11.35 | 9.332 | |
| 30 | 10.083 | — | — | |
| 31 | 9.847 | 9.26 | 10.473 | |
| 32 | 9.786 | — | — | |
| 33 | 9.410 | — | — | |
| 34 | 9.025 | 9.82 | 8.225 | |
| 35 | 8.904 | 7.79 | 9.946 | |
| 36 | 8.777 | — | — | |
| 37 | 8.654 | 8.76 | 8.552 | |
| 38 | 8.642 | — | — | |
| 39 | 8.638 | 9.06 | 8.249 | |
| 40 | 8.634 | 8.71 | 8.646 | |
| 41 | 8.151 | — | — | |
| 42 | 7.721 | — | — | |
| 43 | 7.673 | 7.67 | 7.674 | |
| 44 | 7.385 | — | — | |
| 45 | 6.991 | 5.13 | 8.835 | |
| 46 | 6.588 | 5.39 | 7.754 | |
| 47 | 6.471 | — | — | |
| 48 | 5.346 | 5.24 | 5.450 | |
| 49 | 5.253 | 4.48 | 6.039 | |
| 50 | 4.367 | 3.50 | 5.222 | |
| 51 | 4.205 | 3.41 | 4.993 | |
| 52 | 4.145 | 3.16 | 5.114 | |
| 53 | 4.104 | 3.62 | 4.582 | |
| 54 | 3.853 | 3.22 | 4.487 | |
| 55 | 3.660 | — | — | |
| 56 | 2.567 | — | — | |
| 57 | 2.096 | 1.49 | 2.685 | |
| 58 | 2.062 | — | — |
02In 1992
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 10.101. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Female
HighestQatar14.10
LowestMali1.49
Middle country: 9.16
Male
HighestSaint Kitts and Nevis13.215
LowestMali2.685
Middle country: 9.084
031991 → 1992
What changed between 1991 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
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
What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.
The position is ours
UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.
Which end is better
A higher value is the better result.
56 empty cells
An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.
05The files
The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.
For a spreadsheet or code
58 rows · 4.3 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download school-life-expectancy-1992-nations-inquiry.csvThe publisher’s original
UIS’s own file, on its own site.
indicatorsWhat 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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Cite this edition
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (1992). School Life Expectancy, 1992 [data set], describing 1992. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/1992
0650 held
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How it has moved, charted by country07Questions
Iceland, at 15.574, of the 58 countries in the file.
1992.
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On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.
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