Loading…
Data for 2016
School Life Expectancy, 2016
Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten
School Life Expectancy, 2016 covers 117 countries on 3 measures. Australia is highest, at 22.8563; Niger is lowest, at 6.4857. The middle country reads 14.7661. Against 2015, 106 values changed (57 up, 49 down), 11 countries joined, 18 left.
School Life Expectancy · Data for 2016
HighestAustralia
22.8563
LowestNiger
6.4857Shaded 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, 2016, 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 117 countries · select a heading to sort
| derived | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AustraliaAUSAustralia and New Zealand | 22.8563 | 23.201 | 22.5149 |
| 2 |  MonacoMCOWestern Europe | 20.7606 | 21.395 | 20.1600 |
| 3 |  BelgiumBELWestern Europe | 19.6569 | 20.663 | 18.6809 |
| 4 |  FinlandFINNorthern Europe | 19.3108 | 20.117 | 18.5442 |
| 5 |  IcelandISLNorthern Europe | 19.0669 | 20.266 | 17.9151 |
| 6 |  DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe | 19.0395 | 19.715 | 18.3836 |
| 7 |  IrelandIRLNorthern Europe | 19.0003 | 19.073 | 18.9343 |
| 8 |  GreeceGRCSouthern Europe | 18.7160 | 18.448 | 18.9873 |
| 9 |  SwedenSWENorthern Europe | 18.4234 | 19.607 | 17.2962 |
| 10 |  TürkiyeTURWestern Asia | 18.2748 | 17.859 | 18.6796 |
| 11 |  NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe | 18.1376 | 18.354 | 17.9254 |
| 12 |  New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand | 17.9833 | 18.859 | 17.1063 |
| 13 |  NorwayNORNorthern Europe | 17.9407 | 18.664 | 17.2583 |
| 14 |  ArgentinaARGSouth America | 17.7845 | 19.188 | 16.4357 |
| 15 |  GrenadaGRDCaribbean | 17.7187 | 18.293 | 17.1788 |
| 16 |  SeychellesSYCEastern Africa | 17.5014 | 18.277 | 17.0653 |
| 17 |  SpainESPSouthern Europe | 17.4736 | 17.843 | 17.1172 |
| 18 |  SloveniaSVNSouthern Europe | 17.4575 | 18.214 | 16.7438 |
| 19 |  Puerto RicoPRICaribbean | 17.0194 | 17.902 | 16.1471 |
| 20 |  GermanyDEUWestern Europe | 16.8752 | 16.914 | 16.8403 |
| 21 |  CzechiaCZEEastern Europe | 16.7861 | 17.563 | 16.0433 |
| 22 |  LithuaniaLTUNorthern Europe | 16.7670 | 17.207 | 16.3338 |
| 23 |  United StatesUSANorthern America | 16.6730 | 17.351 | 16.0083 |
| 24 |  SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia | 16.6391 | 16.795 | 16.5525 |
| 25 |  PolandPOLEastern Europe | 16.6273 | 17.454 | 15.8304 |
| 26 |  ChileCHLSouth America | 16.4954 | 16.690 | 16.3058 |
| 27 |  South KoreaKOREastern Asia | 16.4882 | 15.897 | 17.0010 |
| 28 |  Hong KongHKGEastern Asia | 16.3474 | 16.328 | 16.3946 |
| 29 |  LatviaLVANorthern Europe | 16.2615 | 17.024 | 15.5322 |
| 30 |  PortugalPRTSouthern Europe | 16.2240 | 16.287 | 16.1697 |
| 31 |  UruguayURYSouth America | 16.1406 | — | — |
| 32 |  SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe | 16.1343 | 16.076 | 16.1925 |
| 33 |  BahrainBHRWestern Asia | 16.1311 | 16.757 | 15.7314 |
| 34 |  EstoniaESTNorthern Europe | 15.9529 | 16.750 | 15.1954 |
| 35 |  ItalyITASouthern Europe | 15.9528 | 16.357 | 15.5695 |
| 36 |  CanadaCANNorthern America | 15.9158 | 16.427 | 15.4327 |
| 37 |  AustriaAUTWestern Europe | 15.8968 | 16.300 | 15.5194 |
| 38 |  ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia | 15.7969 | 16.220 | 15.3919 |
| 39 |  CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe | 15.6787 | 16.342 | 15.0330 |
| 40 |  FranceFRAWestern Europe | 15.6228 | 15.962 | 15.2879 |
| 41 |  GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia | 15.6220 | 15.467 | 15.7653 |
| 42 |  BulgariaBGREastern Europe | 15.5683 | 15.818 | 15.3356 |
| 43 |  BelarusBLREastern Europe | 15.5239 | 15.962 | 15.1092 |
| 44 |  NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa | 15.4697 | 16.321 | 14.6334 |
| 45 |  MacauMACEastern Asia | 15.3559 | 16.166 | 14.6129 |
| 46 |  BrazilBRASouth America | 15.3465 | 15.723 | 14.9667 |
| 47 |  JapanJPNEastern Asia | 15.3097 | 15.238 | 15.3779 |
| 48 |  MaltaMLTSouthern Europe | 15.2978 | 15.979 | 14.6875 |
| 49 |  HungaryHUNEastern Europe | 15.2520 | 15.553 | 14.9641 |
| 50 |  IsraelISRWestern Asia | 15.2205 | 15.742 | 14.7189 |
| 51 |  MontenegroMNESouthern Europe | 15.1972 | 15.502 | 14.9254 |
| 52 |  Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia | 15.1400 | 16.269 | 14.3173 |
| 53 |  AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe | 15.0717 | 15.438 | 14.7263 |
| 54 |  PeruPERSouth America | 15.0475 | 14.991 | 15.1029 |
| 55 |  CyprusCYPWestern Asia | 15.0245 | 15.503 | 14.5666 |
| 56 |  MongoliaMNGEastern Asia | 14.9983 | 15.588 | 14.4227 |
| 57 |  LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe | 14.9242 | 13.540 | 16.3284 |
| 58 |  RussiaRUSEastern Europe | 14.8680 | 15.196 | 14.5529 |
| 59 |  ColombiaCOLSouth America | 14.7661 | 15.058 | 14.4782 |
| 60 |  SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe | 14.7539 | 15.306 | 14.2423 |
| 61 |  MexicoMEXCentral America | 14.6760 | 14.866 | 14.4785 |
| 62 |  SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe | 14.6725 | 15.210 | 14.1590 |
| 63 |  Costa RicaCRICentral America | 14.5969 | 14.985 | 14.2207 |
| 64 |  Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean | 14.5314 | 15.312 | 13.7455 |
| 65 |  MauritiusMUSEastern Africa | 14.5030 | 14.933 | 14.0822 |
| 66 |  TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa | 14.3456 | 15.093 | 13.6250 |
| 67 |  IranIRNSouthern Asia | 14.2751 | 14.161 | 14.3824 |
| 68 |  RomaniaROUEastern Europe | 14.2630 | 14.643 | 13.9045 |
| 69 |  Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe | 14.2391 | 14.913 | 13.6254 |
| 70 |  OmanOMNWestern Asia | 14.1891 | 15.133 | 13.5804 |
| 71 |  LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe | 14.1672 | 14.301 | 14.0419 |
| 72 |  Saint LuciaLCACaribbean | 14.0871 | 15.039 | 13.1729 |
| 73 |  MoldovaMDAEastern Europe | 14.0791 | 14.415 | 13.7521 |
| 74 |  BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia | 14.0683 | 14.822 | 13.4190 |
| 75 |  CubaCUBCaribbean | 13.9655 | 14.195 | 13.7487 |
| 76 |  Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia | 13.7617 | 14.146 | 13.4012 |
| 77 |  South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa | 13.7558 | 14.213 | 13.3106 |
| 78 |  UkraineUKREastern Europe | 13.6359 | 13.838 | 13.4450 |
| 79 |  BelizeBLZCentral America | 13.5888 | 13.828 | 13.3483 |
| 80 |  KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia | 13.5364 | 13.769 | 13.3042 |
| 81 |  Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa | 13.4937 | 14.202 | 12.8389 |
| 82 |  IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia | 13.4521 | 13.526 | 13.3827 |
| 83 |  VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia | 13.3861 | 13.059 | 13.7042 |
| 84 |  British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean | 13.3272 | 13.404 | 13.4748 |
| 85 |  PalestinePSEWestern Asia | 13.3090 | 13.831 | 12.7763 |
| 86 |  ArmeniaARMWestern Asia | 13.2403 | 13.485 | 12.9886 |
| 87 |  Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia | 13.2365 | 13.611 | 12.8672 |
| 88 |  AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia | 13.1897 | 13.190 | 13.1856 |
| 89 |  MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia | 12.9902 | 13.694 | 12.3658 |
| 90 |  PanamaPANCentral America | 12.9897 | 13.599 | 12.4027 |
| 91 |  JordanJORWestern Asia | 12.9245 | 13.265 | 12.6136 |
| 92 |  IndiaINDSouthern Asia | 12.6848 | 13.093 | 12.3113 |
| 93 |  KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia | 12.6228 | 12.777 | 12.4693 |
| 94 |  NepalNPLSouthern Asia | 12.5980 | 13.001 | 12.2066 |
| 95 |  QatarQATWestern Asia | 12.4566 | 14.260 | 11.8389 |
| 96 |  CameroonCMRMiddle Africa | 12.2875 | 11.461 | 13.1110 |
| 97 |  AndorraANDSouthern Europe | 12.0514 | 12.190 | 11.9489 |
| 98 |  PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia | 11.9910 | 12.294 | 11.7037 |
| 99 |  El SalvadorSLVCentral America | 11.8223 | 11.900 | 11.7709 |
| 100 |  UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia | 11.7449 | 11.609 | 11.8752 |
| 101 |  BeninBENWestern Africa | 11.6687 | 10.599 | 12.7101 |
| 102 |  EgyptEGYNorthern Africa | 11.6025 | 11.526 | 11.6753 |
| 103 |  RwandaRWAEastern Africa | 11.5831 | 11.363 | 11.8297 |
| 104 |  GhanaGHAWestern Africa | 11.1561 | 10.868 | 11.4390 |
| 105 |  LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia | 11.0907 | 10.746 | 11.4276 |
| 106 |  BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia | 10.9891 | 11.082 | 10.8982 |
| 107 |  BurundiBDIEastern Africa | 10.7707 | 10.728 | 10.8157 |
| 108 |  LebanonLBNWestern Asia | 10.2791 | 10.683 | 9.8857 |
| 109 |  MadagascarMDGEastern Africa | 9.7910 | 9.792 | 9.7904 |
| 110 |  HondurasHNDCentral America | 9.7027 | 10.161 | 9.2614 |
| 111 |  Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa | 8.9854 | 8.377 | 9.5588 |
| 112 |  Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa | 8.2327 | 7.959 | 8.5030 |
| 113 |  MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa | 8.2016 | 8.013 | 8.4134 |
| 114 |  TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa | 7.7009 | 7.745 | 7.6575 |
| 115 |  MaliMLIWestern Africa | 6.8992 | 6.167 | 7.6118 |
| 116 |  PakistanPAKSouthern Asia | 6.8853 | 6.218 | 7.5121 |
| 117 | NigerNERWestern Africa | 6.4857 | 5.792 | 7.1564 |
02In 2016
At either end
The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.
Lowest
- 117Niger6.4857
- 116Pakistan6.8853
- 115Mali6.8992
- 114Tanzania7.7009
- 113Mauritania8.2016
A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 14.7661. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.
Each measure’s ends
032015 → 2016
Since 2015
What changed between 2015 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.
- +11 / −18countries joined / left
- 106values changed, of 106 in both
- 57 · 49rose · fell
- 0unchanged
Rose most
- Seychelles16.1483 → 17.5014+1.3530
- Belize12.9104 → 13.5888+0.6784
- Rwanda11.0796 → 11.5831+0.5035
- Côte d’Ivoire8.4838 → 8.9854+0.5016
- Türkiye17.7884 → 18.2748+0.4865
Fell most
- Puerto Rico18.0741 → 17.0194−1.0547
- New Zealand18.9513 → 17.9833−0.9680
- British Virgin Islands13.8250 → 13.3272−0.4978
- Montenegro15.6637 → 15.1972−0.4665
- Mauritania8.6666 → 8.2016−0.4650
+ Bangladesh+ Egypt+ Greece+ Jordan+ Sri Lanka+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Peru+ Saudi Arabia+ Singapore+ Thailand
− Bermuda
− Ecuador
− Eritrea
− United Kingdom
− Guatemala
− Jamaica
− Saint Kitts and Nevis
− Kuwait
− Lesotho
− North Macedonia
− Mozambique
− North Korea
− Sudan
− Senegal
− São Tomé and Príncipe
− Turks and Caicos Islands
− Chad
− Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesChanges 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 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.
2 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.
- .csv
For a spreadsheet or code
117 rows · 9.0 KB · UTF-8, opens in Excel
Opens with 11 lines of source notes; the table starts on row 13.
Download school-life-expectancy-2016-nations-inquiry.csv - ↗
The publisher’s original
UIS’s own file, on its own site.
indicators
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) (2016). School Life Expectancy, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/school-life-expectancy/2016
0650 held
Other years
‹ The year before
School Life Expectancy, 2015124 countries
The year after ›
School Life Expectancy, 2017117 countries
All of them
School Life Expectancy: every year50 held, with the data dictionary, coverage and licence.
How it has moved, charted by country
07Questions
School Life Expectancy, 2016: questions and answers
Which country has the highest school life expectancy in School Life Expectancy, 2016?
Australia, at 22.8563, of the 117 countries in the file.
What year does School Life Expectancy, 2016 describe?
2016.
How many countries does School Life Expectancy, 2016 cover?
117.
Where can I download School Life Expectancy, 2016?
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, 2016 the newest?
No. The newest held here is School Life Expectancy, 2024.