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School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) by country

Expected years of schooling is the number of years a child of school entrance age is expected to spend at school, or university, including years spent on repetition. It is the sum of the age-specific enrolment ratios for primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education.

Countries reporting
175
Highest
21.09 years
Australia
Lowest
5.4 years
Sierra Leone
Median
13.87 years
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
6,052

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) is currently reported for 175 countries. The highest value is 21.09 years in Australia; the lowest is 5.4 years in Sierra Leone.

The median across all reporting countries is 13.87 years, and the mean is 13.61 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 4.

Over the past decade 137 countries rose and 24 fell. The largest increase was in Djibouti (up 130.7%), and the largest decrease in British Virgin Islands (down 29.9%).

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Australia 21.09 years 2018 — rising
2 Sweden 20.71 years 2018 up 25.4% rising
3 Belgium 20.55 years 2018 up 2.9% rising
4 Finland 20.3 years 2018 up 14.8% rising
5 Ireland 20.23 years 2018 up 16.3% rising
6 Iceland 20.21 years 2018 up 2.6% rising
7 New Zealand 19.88 years 2018 up 0.6% rising
8 Greece 19.46 years 2018 up 22.9% rising
9 Denmark 19.44 years 2018 up 11.4% rising
10 Grenada 19.18 years 2018 up 4.8% rising
11 Argentina 18.91 years 2017 up 10.5% rising
12 Saint Kitts and Nevis 18.85 years 2015 up 26.5% rising
13 Netherlands 18.85 years 2018 up 12.5% rising
14 Norway 18.82 years 2018 up 4.1% rising
15 Slovenia 18.36 years 2018 up 3.2% rising
16 Spain 18.21 years 2018 up 10.7% rising
17 Puerto Rico 17.99 years 2018 up 2.4% flat
18 United Kingdom 17.74 years 2018 up 8.0% rising
19 Turkey 17.61 years 2018 up 49.3% rising
20 Hong Kong 17.49 years 2019 up 11.2% rising
21 Macao 17.12 years 2019 up 31.1% rising
22 Costa Rica 17.06 years 2019 up 16.7% rising
23 Malta 17.05 years 2018 up 15.2% rising
24 Lithuania 17.03 years 2018 down 2.8% rising
25 Bahrain 17 years 2019 up 19.3% rising
26 Latvia 16.96 years 2018 down 0.2% rising
27 United States 16.91 years 2018 up 1.7% rising
28 Germany 16.91 years 2018 up 1.9% rising
29 Chile 16.83 years 2018 up 13.8% rising
30 Czechia 16.8 years 2018 up 5.9% rising
31 Poland 16.8 years 2018 up 7.5% rising
32 Portugal 16.76 years 2018 up 3.5% rising
33 Israel 16.73 years 2018 up 3.3% rising
34 Canada 16.72 years 2018 up 7.2% flat
35 Estonia 16.72 years 2018 down 3.1% rising
36 Barbados 16.69 years 2011 up 12.9% rising
37 Italy 16.48 years 2018 down 2.5% rising
38 Austria 16.39 years 2018 up 1.4% rising
39 Switzerland 16.31 years 2018 up 7.2% rising
40 Uruguay 16.27 years 2006 up 7.8% rising
41 France 16.14 years 2018 up 5.3% rising
42 Kuwait 16.07 years 2015 up 11.1% rising
43 Tunisia 16.02 years 2016 up 8.4% rising
44 Saudi Arabia 16.01 years 2019 up 19.7% rising
45 South Korea 15.98 years 2018 up 0.6% rising
46 Kazakhstan 15.97 years 2019 up 7.6% rising
47 Georgia 15.93 years 2019 up 18.2% rising
48 Croatia 15.92 years 2018 up 9.1% rising
49 Russia 15.92 years 2018 up 9.7% rising
50 Thailand 15.81 years 2016 up 21.9% rising
51 Mauritius 15.72 years 2017 up 13.7% rising
52 Libya 15.71 years 2003 — rising
53 Albania 15.67 years 2019 up 24.2% rising
54 Belarus 15.66 years 2018 down 2.5% rising
55 Antigua and Barbuda 15.66 years 2012 down 2.3% flat
56 Seychelles 15.59 years 2019 up 11.5% rising
57 Ecuador 15.51 years 2015 — rising
58 Cyprus 15.43 years 2018 up 9.5% rising
59 Montenegro 15.43 years 2019 up 0.6% rising
60 Hungary 15.42 years 2018 down 2.1% rising
61 Venezuela 15.41 years 2008 up 39.0% rising
62 Mongolia 15.29 years 2010 up 48.5% rising
63 Serbia 15.21 years 2019 up 8.6% rising
64 Mexico 15.16 years 2018 up 14.1% rising
65 Ukraine 15.09 years 2014 up 2.9% rising
66 Dominican Republic 14.99 years 2017 up 6.2% rising
67 Slovakia 14.98 years 2018 down 3.6% rising
68 Oman 14.95 years 2019 up 12.7% rising
69 Peru 14.89 years 2017 up 15.3% rising
70 Romania 14.74 years 2018 down 7.0% rising
71 Cuba 14.71 years 2018 down 22.3% rising
72 Colombia 14.67 years 2018 up 6.5% rising
73 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 14.59 years 2015 up 8.8% rising
74 Algeria 14.58 years 2011 up 20.8% rising
75 Iran 14.57 years 2017 up 21.0% rising
76 Brunei 14.57 years 2019 up 1.7% rising
77 United Arab Emirates 14.47 years 2017 — rising
78 Sri Lanka 14.46 years 2018 up 4.5% rising
79 Bulgaria 14.4 years 2018 up 0.5% rising
80 Qatar 14.38 years 2019 up 5.5% rising
81 Luxembourg 14.33 years 2018 up 5.6% rising
82 Brazil 14.3 years 2011 down 4.3% flat
83 Palestine 14.3 years 2019 up 3.4% rising
84 Aruba 14.21 years 2012 up 6.7% rising
85 Fiji 14.15 years 2004 — rising
86 Malaysia 14.04 years 2017 up 10.2% rising
87 Tonga 13.91 years 2002 — rising
88 South Africa 13.87 years 2018 up 1.2% rising
89 Armenia 13.73 years 2019 up 3.9% rising
90 North Macedonia 13.72 years 2018 up 6.7% rising
91 Indonesia 13.67 years 2018 up 18.4% rising
92 Azerbaijan 13.64 years 2019 — rising
93 Morocco 13.62 years 2019 up 33.7% rising
94 Liechtenstein 13.57 years 2018 up 0.3% flat
95 Philippines 13.5 years 2017 up 15.6% rising
96 Panama 13.47 years 2016 down 0.5% rising
97 Bhutan 13.47 years 2018 up 27.9% rising
98 Bermuda 13.46 years 2015 down 0.8% rising
99 Belize 13.42 years 2019 up 5.5% rising
100 Saint Lucia 13.41 years 2019 up 2.9% rising
101 Nepal 13.38 years 2019 up 22.7% rising
102 Jamaica 13.35 years 2015 up 8.2% rising
103 Egypt 13.31 years 2017 up 15.6% rising
104 Kyrgyzstan 13.24 years 2019 up 2.1% rising
105 Cape Verde 13 years 2018 up 1.9% rising
106 San Marino 12.96 years 2019 down 21.0% falling
107 Botswana 12.59 years 2006 up 10.0% rising
108 Lesotho 12.54 years 2017 up 9.4% rising
109 Paraguay 12.53 years 2010 up 6.4% rising
110 Sao Tome and Principe 12.53 years 2015 up 28.2% rising
111 Trinidad and Tobago 12.47 years 2004 up 13.1% rising
112 China 12.4 years 2010 — rising
113 Bangladesh 12.39 years 2018 up 39.9% volatile
114 Samoa 12.38 years 2000 — rising
115 Uzbekistan 12.38 years 2019 up 9.3% rising
116 British Virgin Islands 12.36 years 2018 down 29.9% falling
117 Maldives 12.31 years 2003 up 15.7% rising
118 Suriname 12.29 years 2002 down 3.6% falling
119 Kiribati 12.25 years 2008 up 17.4% rising
120 Eswatini 12.19 years 2013 up 26.2% rising
121 Gibraltar 12.12 years 2009 up 20.0% rising
122 Gabon 11.85 years 1999 up 3.2% rising
123 Ghana 11.83 years 2019 up 21.4% rising
124 India 11.65 years 2019 up 13.9% rising
125 Moldova 11.61 years 2019 down 4.6% flat
126 Guyana 11.59 years 2012 down 0.5% rising
127 Namibia 11.57 years 2006 down 1.3% flat
128 El Salvador 11.52 years 2018 down 6.0% rising
129 Togo 11.51 years 2017 up 34.5% rising
130 Benin 11.44 years 2016 up 66.6% volatile
131 Cameroon 11.34 years 2016 up 53.3% rising
132 Rwanda 11.22 years 2019 up 2.1% rising
133 Nicaragua 11.17 years 2002 up 35.0% rising
134 Zimbabwe 11.14 years 2013 up 15.9% rising
135 Burundi 10.9 years 2018 up 57.9% volatile
136 Myanmar 10.87 years 2018 — rising
137 Malawi 10.83 years 2011 up 10.7% rising
138 Tajikistan 10.7 years 2013 up 12.5% rising
139 Guatemala 10.6 years 2015 up 5.5% rising
140 Congo 10.58 years 2012 up 25.2% rising
141 Jordan 10.57 years 2018 down 17.1% rising
142 Uganda 10.53 years 2004 up 104.6% rising
143 Honduras 10.49 years 2017 down 2.3% rising
144 Vanuatu 10.24 years 2004 up 8.9% rising
145 Laos 10.23 years 2019 up 13.8% rising
146 Madagascar 10.19 years 2018 up 7.4% rising
147 Kenya 9.93 years 2009 up 24.0% rising
148 Cambodia 9.91 years 2008 up 45.7% rising
149 Nauru 9.68 years 2008 down 5.9% flat
150 Mauritania 9.56 years 2019 up 23.9% rising
151 Mozambique 9.49 years 2017 up 15.0% rising
152 Senegal 9.28 years 2019 up 26.2% volatile
153 Tanzania 9.2 years 2019 up 0.5% rising
154 Burkina Faso 9.16 years 2019 up 60.5% volatile
155 Syria 9.07 years 2013 down 11.9% rising
156 Cote d'Ivoire 9.05 years 2017 — rising
157 Liberia 8.99 years 2000 — volatile
158 Solomon Islands 8.79 years 2007 up 31.2% rising
159 Iraq 8.75 years 2004 up 5.1% rising
160 Democratic Republic of Congo 8.52 years 2013 up 27.8% rising
161 Nigeria 8.18 years 2011 up 17.3% rising
162 Ethiopia 7.92 years 2012 up 87.3% volatile
163 Afghanistan 7.72 years 2018 up 20.3% volatile
164 Guinea 7.67 years 2014 up 48.1% volatile
165 Yemen 7.65 years 2011 up 56.7% rising
166 Pakistan 7.58 years 2018 up 25.8% rising
167 Sudan 7.35 years 2015 up 21.2% rising
168 Eritrea 7.32 years 2015 up 9.2% rising
169 Zambia 7.27 years 1988 up 9.8% rising
170 Mali 6.8 years 2017 up 11.1% volatile
171 Djibouti 6.45 years 2011 up 130.7% rising
172 Chad 5.88 years 2015 up 45.7% rising
173 Niger 5.73 years 2017 up 78.2% volatile
174 Central African Republic 5.6 years 2012 — rising
175 Sierra Leone 5.4 years 2001 — rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

About this data

Indicator
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years)
Unit
years
Source
Data API, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
220 places, 6,052 data points, 1970–2019
Last refreshed

Expected years of schooling is the number of years a child of school entrance age is expected to spend at school, or university, including years spent on repetition. It is the sum of the age-specific enrolment ratios for primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education.