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School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, male (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
19.94 years
Australia
Lowest
6.46 years
Djibouti
Median
13.34 years
Years covered
50
1970–2019
Data points
6,052

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, male (years) is currently reported for 175 countries. The highest value is 19.94 years in Australia; the lowest is 6.46 years in Djibouti.

The median across all reporting countries is 13.34 years, and the mean is 13.3 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 135 countries rose and 26 fell. The largest increase was in Uganda (up 90.5%), and the largest decrease in British Virgin Islands (down 26.4%).

School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, male (years) (male Data): full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Australia 19.94 years 2018 — rising
2 Greece 19.55 years 2018 up 22.9% rising
3 Ireland 19.26 years 2018 up 12.5% rising
4 Sweden 18.71 years 2018 up 24.7% rising
5 Turkey 18.7 years 2018 up 42.0% rising
6 Finland 18.69 years 2018 up 13.7% rising
7 Belgium 18.6 years 2018 up 3.0% rising
8 Netherlands 18.28 years 2018 up 9.1% rising
9 Iceland 18.17 years 2018 up 6.1% rising
10 Denmark 18.17 years 2018 up 13.1% rising
11 Grenada 18.09 years 2018 up 5.8% rising
12 New Zealand 17.86 years 2018 down 0.1% rising
13 Norway 17.46 years 2018 up 4.4% rising
14 Spain 17.32 years 2018 up 11.9% rising
15 Hong Kong 17.01 years 2019 up 9.1% rising
16 Germany 16.95 years 2018 up 0.5% rising
17 South Korea 16.94 years 2018 down 3.3% rising
18 Slovenia 16.88 years 2018 up 4.4% rising
19 United Kingdom 16.76 years 2018 up 8.1% rising
20 Portugal 16.68 years 2018 up 6.0% rising
21 Switzerland 16.51 years 2018 up 6.1% rising
22 Argentina 16.43 years 2017 up 7.8% rising
23 Chile 16.34 years 2018 up 9.4% rising
24 Malta 16.15 years 2018 up 11.4% rising
25 Lithuania 16.13 years 2018 up 1.2% rising
26 Saint Kitts and Nevis 16.07 years 2015 up 13.5% rising
27 Saudi Arabia 16.06 years 2019 up 15.8% rising
28 Costa Rica 16.05 years 2019 up 14.5% rising
29 Italy 15.89 years 2018 down 0.5% rising
30 Bahrain 15.85 years 2019 up 21.2% rising
31 Macao 15.8 years 2019 up 14.9% rising
32 Czechia 15.78 years 2018 up 4.7% rising
33 Austria 15.76 years 2018 up 1.4% rising
34 Canada 15.74 years 2018 up 6.5% falling
35 United States 15.67 years 2018 up 2.6% rising
36 Liechtenstein 15.66 years 2018 down 0.4% flat
37 Israel 15.55 years 2018 up 1.5% rising
38 Latvia 15.54 years 2018 up 4.4% rising
39 Russia 15.5 years 2018 up 15.1% rising
40 France 15.46 years 2018 up 4.5% rising
41 Georgia 15.34 years 2019 up 19.5% rising
42 Poland 15.29 years 2018 up 6.0% rising
43 Cyprus 15.28 years 2018 up 8.7% rising
44 Kazakhstan 15.27 years 2019 up 7.1% rising
45 Libya 15.2 years 2003 — rising
46 Belarus 15.16 years 2018 up 1.5% rising
47 Estonia 15.15 years 2018 up 1.0% rising
48 Peru 15.09 years 2017 up 18.7% rising
49 Thailand 15.05 years 2016 up 19.1% rising
50 Iran 15.04 years 2017 up 25.5% rising
51 Puerto Rico 15.02 years 2018 down 2.1% flat
52 Ecuador 14.89 years 2015 — rising
53 Hungary 14.85 years 2018 up 0.1% rising
54 Ukraine 14.65 years 2014 up 4.2% rising
55 Mexico 14.57 years 2018 up 11.0% rising
56 Montenegro 14.5 years 2019 up 0.1% rising
57 Croatia 14.47 years 2018 up 5.3% rising
58 Mauritius 14.42 years 2017 up 7.1% rising
59 Uruguay 14.4 years 2006 up 13.8% rising
60 United Arab Emirates 14.37 years 2017 — rising
61 Luxembourg 14.3 years 2018 up 5.9% rising
62 Morocco 14.3 years 2019 up 26.8% rising
63 Tunisia 14.28 years 2016 up 4.5% rising
64 Colombia 14.14 years 2018 up 6.5% rising
65 Serbia 14.13 years 2019 up 6.4% rising
66 Algeria 14.09 years 2011 up 17.0% rising
67 Oman 14.07 years 2019 up 4.0% rising
68 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 14.06 years 2015 up 7.5% rising
69 Albania 14.03 years 2019 up 17.7% rising
70 Antigua and Barbuda 14.01 years 2012 down 4.3% flat
71 Slovakia 14 years 2018 down 1.6% rising
72 Bulgaria 14 years 2018 up 1.3% rising
73 Mongolia 13.89 years 2010 up 63.1% rising
74 Barbados 13.89 years 2011 up 5.2% rising
75 Cuba 13.88 years 2018 down 13.8% rising
76 Romania 13.84 years 2018 down 6.6% rising
77 Togo 13.82 years 2017 up 15.9% rising
78 Benin 13.76 years 2016 up 31.7% rising
79 Sri Lanka 13.76 years 2018 up 2.8% rising
80 Fiji 13.7 years 2004 — rising
81 Brunei 13.61 years 2019 down 2.3% rising
82 Brazil 13.56 years 2011 down 7.0% falling
83 Indonesia 13.55 years 2018 up 14.8% rising
84 Kuwait 13.5 years 2015 up 6.3% rising
85 Dominican Republic 13.46 years 2017 up 2.3% flat
86 Eswatini 13.42 years 2013 up 29.8% rising
87 Tonga 13.35 years 2002 — rising
88 Malaysia 13.34 years 2017 up 11.5% rising
89 Egypt 13.34 years 2017 up 11.8% rising
90 Azerbaijan 13.32 years 2019 — rising
91 North Macedonia 13.3 years 2018 up 3.2% rising
92 San Marino 13.23 years 2019 down 11.2% falling
93 South Africa 13.21 years 2018 down 0.6% rising
94 Aruba 13.2 years 2012 up 1.4% flat
95 Venezuela 13.14 years 2008 up 30.0% rising
96 Nepal 12.92 years 2019 up 14.9% rising
97 Seychelles 12.92 years 2019 up 1.7% rising
98 Cameroon 12.86 years 2016 up 43.1% rising
99 Belize 12.86 years 2019 up 5.8% rising
100 Kyrgyzstan 12.84 years 2019 up 6.8% rising
101 Philippines 12.82 years 2017 up 15.7% rising
102 Bhutan 12.75 years 2018 up 19.0% rising
103 Botswana 12.65 years 2006 up 12.3% rising
104 Armenia 12.58 years 2019 down 0.9% rising
105 Uzbekistan 12.57 years 2019 up 9.1% rising
106 Afghanistan 12.56 years 2018 up 15.0% rising
107 Liberia 12.55 years 2000 — rising
108 Palestine 12.54 years 2019 down 1.6% rising
109 Saint Lucia 12.47 years 2019 up 2.6% rising
110 China 12.45 years 2010 — rising
111 Gabon 12.44 years 1999 up 3.4% rising
112 Cape Verde 12.42 years 2018 up 0.3% rising
113 Panama 12.36 years 2016 up 0.5% rising
114 Sao Tome and Principe 12.24 years 2015 up 22.1% rising
115 Gibraltar 12.12 years 2009 up 4.3% rising
116 Trinidad and Tobago 12.07 years 2004 up 9.7% rising
117 Tajikistan 12.06 years 2013 up 5.1% rising
118 Maldives 12.03 years 2003 up 13.8% rising
119 Bermuda 11.97 years 2015 up 3.5% flat
120 Ghana 11.9 years 2019 up 13.2% rising
121 Paraguay 11.87 years 2010 up 2.2% rising
122 Lesotho 11.73 years 2017 up 5.8% rising
123 Bangladesh 11.69 years 2018 up 38.3% rising
124 El Salvador 11.69 years 2018 down 6.4% rising
125 Samoa 11.67 years 2000 — rising
126 Qatar 11.65 years 2019 down 10.9% flat
127 British Virgin Islands 11.6 years 2018 down 26.4% falling
128 Zimbabwe 11.59 years 2013 up 13.3% flat
129 Namibia 11.5 years 2006 up 1.2% rising
130 Iraq 11.49 years 2004 up 3.6% rising
131 Kiribati 11.42 years 2008 up 19.2% rising
132 Jamaica 11.38 years 2015 up 1.4% rising
133 India 11.29 years 2019 up 6.6% rising
134 Guyana 11.27 years 2012 up 2.8% rising
135 Moldova 11.25 years 2019 down 2.3% flat
136 Rwanda 11.24 years 2019 up 2.7% rising
137 Uganda 11.23 years 2004 up 90.5% rising
138 Cambodia 11.18 years 2008 up 32.3% rising
139 Malawi 10.99 years 2011 up 0.8% rising
140 Vanuatu 10.95 years 2004 up 11.0% rising
141 Guatemala 10.9 years 2015 up 3.3% rising
142 Congo 10.88 years 2012 up 10.4% falling
143 Cote d'Ivoire 10.86 years 2017 — rising
144 Laos 10.72 years 2019 up 2.3% rising
145 Democratic Republic of Congo 10.68 years 2013 up 14.3% rising
146 Burundi 10.66 years 2018 up 33.6% volatile
147 Kenya 10.61 years 2009 up 26.7% flat
148 Nicaragua 10.56 years 2002 up 58.6% rising
149 Suriname 10.5 years 2002 down 4.1% falling
150 Yemen 10.5 years 2011 down 2.0% falling
151 Myanmar 10.47 years 2018 — rising
152 Mozambique 10.47 years 2017 up 4.6% rising
153 Guinea 10.35 years 2014 up 28.3% rising
154 Jordan 10.26 years 2018 down 16.9% flat
155 Madagascar 10.16 years 2018 up 2.1% rising
156 Solomon Islands 9.65 years 2007 up 26.3% rising
157 Honduras 9.64 years 2017 up 0.4% rising
158 Nauru 9.46 years 2008 up 7.2% flat
159 Burkina Faso 9.36 years 2019 up 36.7% volatile
160 Syria 9.25 years 2013 down 14.9% flat
161 Nigeria 9.17 years 2011 up 8.0% rising
162 Mauritania 9.15 years 2019 up 16.2% rising
163 Tanzania 9.03 years 2019 down 4.2% rising
164 Pakistan 8.92 years 2018 up 20.7% rising
165 Ethiopia 8.88 years 2012 up 42.3% rising
166 Chad 8.81 years 2015 up 28.1% rising
167 Eritrea 8.73 years 2015 down 7.5% rising
168 Zambia 8.48 years 1988 up 5.5% rising
169 Senegal 8.42 years 2019 up 5.7% rising
170 Mali 8.11 years 2017 down 0.1% volatile
171 Central African Republic 8.09 years 2012 — rising
172 Sudan 7.87 years 2015 up 18.7% rising
173 Sierra Leone 7.3 years 2001 — rising
174 Niger 7.06 years 2017 up 54.2% volatile
175 Djibouti 6.46 years 2011 up 63.1% rising

Regions and income groups

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

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Indicator
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, male (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
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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.