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School Life Expectancy, 2004

Figures for 2004, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

School Life Expectancy, 2004 covers 115 countries on 3 measures. Belgium is highest, at 18.4807; Niger is lowest, at 3.3369. The middle country reads 12.4495. Against 2003, 93 values changed (69 up, 24 down), 22 countries joined, 16 left.

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School Life Expectancy · Data for 2004

HighestBelgium

18.4807

LowestNiger

3.3369

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of School Life Expectancy, 2004, 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 115 countries · select a heading to sort

School Life Expectancy, 2004: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelgiumBELWestern Europe18.480719.10217.8743
2IcelandISLNorthern Europe17.929019.00516.8764
3IrelandIRLNorthern Europe17.590217.82917.3633
4NorwayNORNorthern Europe17.559118.34316.8022
5FinlandFINNorthern Europe17.114317.64616.6055
6United KingdomGBRNorthern Europe16.554717.01816.0951
7DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe16.519117.16715.8851
8LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe16.391717.17115.6182
9SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe16.388716.96915.7347
10British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean16.346517.41915.2223
11NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe16.299016.21616.3811
12EstoniaESTNorthern Europe16.254617.37815.1748
13ArgentinaARGSouth America16.245717.16915.3509
14South KoreaKOREastern Asia16.165515.24717.0271
15LatviaLVANorthern Europe16.108317.09215.1220
16ItalyITASouthern Europe16.064116.47015.6732
17SwedenSWENorthern Europe16.021116.90915.1707
18SpainESPSouthern Europe15.934416.42215.4711
19GreeceGRCSouthern Europe15.577815.87015.3193
20UruguayURYSouth America15.488416.51614.4790
21PortugalPRTSouthern Europe15.237215.74914.7417
22SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe15.180814.88715.4699
23HungaryHUNEastern Europe15.180115.60314.7685
24PolandPOLEastern Europe15.179215.76914.6091
25MacauMACEastern Asia15.108614.27616.1881

02In 2004

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1Belgium18.4807
  2. 2Iceland17.9290
  3. 3Ireland17.5902
  4. 4Norway17.5591
  5. 5Finland17.1143

Lowest

  1. 115Niger3.3369
  2. 114Djibouti4.0507
  3. 113Pakistan5.0938
  4. 112Ethiopia5.5021
  5. 111Chad5.5330

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 12.4495. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    HighestBelgium19.102

    LowestNiger2.703

    Middle country: 12.696

  • Male

    HighestBelgium17.8743

    LowestNiger3.9467

    Middle country: 12.3321

032003 → 2004

Since 2003

What changed between 2003 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −16countries joined / left
  • 93values changed, of 93 in both
  • 69 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Sweden18.5567 → 16.0211−2.5357
  • Finland18.2944 → 17.1143−1.1801
  • Poland15.8075 → 15.1792−0.6284
  • Portugal15.7598 → 15.2372−0.5226
  • Iceland18.2440 → 17.9290−0.3150
+ Armenia+ Burundi+ Belarus+ Colombia+ Costa Rica+ Djibouti+ Denmark+ Eritrea+ Guinea+ Iraq+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Mozambique+ Malawi+ Nigeria+ Panama+ Senegal+ Eswatini+ Thailand+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Uganda+ British Virgin Islands− Burkina Faso− Bahrain− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Guyana− Croatia− India− Libya− Lesotho− Luxembourg− Maldives− Namibia− Nepal− Russia− Tonga− Zimbabwe

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

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • 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.

  • 12 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2004). School Life Expectancy, 2004 [data set], describing 2004. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2004

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07Questions

School Life Expectancy, 2004: questions and answers

Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2004?

Belgium, at 18.4807, of the 115 countries in the file.

What year does School Life Expectancy, 2004 describe?

2004.

How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2004 cover?

115.

Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2004?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is School Life Expectancy, 2004 the newest?

No. The newest held here is School Life Expectancy, 2024.

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