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School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male (years) by country

Number of years a person of school entrance age can expect to spend within the specified level of education. For a child of a certain age a, the school life expectancy is calculated as the sum of the age specific enrolment rates for the levels of education specified. The part of the enrolment that is not...

Countries reporting
194
Highest
15.97 years
Sweden
Lowest
2.29 years
Somalia
Median
11.55 years
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
7,783

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male (years) is currently reported for 194 countries. The highest value is 15.97 years in Sweden; the lowest is 2.29 years in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 11.55 years, and the mean is 11.35 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 133 countries rose and 53 fell. The largest increase was in Angola (up 169.5%), and the largest decrease in Syrian Arab Republic (down 25.7%).

School life expectancy, primary and secondary, male: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Sweden 15.97 years 2018 up 32.3% rising
2 Ireland 15.39 years 2018 up 13.4% rising
3 Iceland 15.13 years 2018 up 4.8% rising
4 Australia 14.9 years 2018 — rising
5 Belgium 14.85 years 2018 down 0.0% rising
6 Denmark 14.66 years 2018 up 12.0% rising
7 Finland 14.45 years 2018 up 17.3% rising
8 Netherlands, The 14.29 years 2018 up 3.1% rising
9 United Kingdom 14.23 years 2018 up 8.4% rising
10 Norway 14.1 years 2018 up 1.9% rising
11 Slovenia, Republic of 13.92 years 2018 up 8.7% rising
12 Tonga 13.83 years 2015 up 7.9% rising
13 New Zealand 13.81 years 2018 down 1.9% rising
14 Malta 13.75 years 2018 up 5.7% rising
15 Liechtenstein 13.69 years 2018 up 2.7% flat
16 Portugal 13.65 years 2018 up 3.6% rising
17 Palau, Republic of 13.63 years 2014 up 14.9% rising
18 Switzerland 13.59 years 2018 up 4.0% rising
19 Costa Rica 13.5 years 2019 up 15.1% rising
20 Spain 13.49 years 2018 up 5.2% rising
21 Grenada 13.46 years 2018 down 4.4% rising
22 Luxembourg 13.38 years 2018 up 4.8% rising
23 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 13.28 years 2018 up 1.5% rising
24 Uruguay 13.28 years 2018 up 11.1% rising
25 Czech Republic 13.27 years 2018 up 6.0% rising
26 Italy 13.26 years 2018 down 0.8% rising
27 Eswatini, Kingdom of 13.09 years 2016 up 9.3% rising
28 Nauru, Republic of 13.08 years 2019 up 38.3% rising
29 Argentina 13.03 years 2017 up 5.0% rising
30 Saudi Arabia 13.03 years 2019 up 4.4% rising
31 St. Kitts and Nevis 12.99 years 2016 up 6.1% rising
32 Antigua and Barbuda 12.98 years 2018 down 8.2% rising
33 Germany 12.98 years 2018 down 3.1% flat
34 Tunisia 12.98 years 2016 up 5.3% rising
35 Togo 12.92 years 2017 up 12.9% rising
36 Thailand 12.91 years 2019 up 21.2% rising
37 Sri Lanka 12.9 years 2018 up 1.2% rising
37 Least developed countries 9.41 years 2019 up 6.0% rising
38 Canada 12.84 years 2018 up 6.1% rising
39 Qatar 12.84 years 2010 up 10.8% rising
40 Lithuania, Republic of 12.83 years 2018 up 2.9% rising
41 Oman 12.83 years 2019 up 2.8% rising
42 Algeria 12.82 years 2011 up 22.2% rising
43 Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 12.81 years 2019 up 1.4% rising
44 Samoa 12.78 years 2016 up 6.7% rising
45 United Arab Emirates 12.77 years 2017 — rising
46 Benin 12.74 years 2016 up 27.7% rising
47 Estonia, Republic of 12.63 years 2018 up 4.0% rising
48 Mauritius 12.6 years 2019 up 3.0% rising
49 Peru 12.58 years 2019 up 13.5% rising
50 Israel 12.57 years 2018 up 1.2% rising
51 Poland, Republic of 12.5 years 2018 up 8.6% rising
52 Latvia, Republic of 12.49 years 2018 up 1.1% rising
53 France 12.47 years 2018 down 1.1% rising
54 Mexico 12.44 years 2018 up 5.9% rising
55 Fiji, Republic of 12.41 years 2012 up 4.2% rising
56 Greece 12.39 years 2018 up 4.6% rising
57 Brunei Darussalam 12.36 years 2019 down 7.1% rising
58 Türkiye, Republic of 12.32 years 2018 up 13.7% rising
59 Chile 12.28 years 2018 up 2.2% rising
60 Nepal 12.27 years 2019 up 16.4% rising
61 Georgia 12.26 years 2019 up 11.3% rising
62 Cuba 12.23 years 2019 up 5.2% rising
63 Ecuador 12.17 years 2018 up 15.2% rising
64 Montenegro 12.17 years 2019 down 1.3% flat
65 Morocco 12.16 years 2019 up 15.3% rising
66 Slovak Republic 12.15 years 2018 up 0.1% rising
67 Cameroon 12.15 years 2016 up 42.7% rising
68 Austria 12.13 years 2018 up 0.4% flat
69 Hungary 12.1 years 2018 up 2.6% rising
70 Libya 12.09 years 2006 — rising
71 Cyprus 12.08 years 2018 down 0.1% rising
72 Dominica 12.06 years 2019 up 5.2% rising
73 United States 12.05 years 2018 up 1.4% flat
74 Macao Special Administrative Region, People's Republic of China 12.05 years 2019 up 14.7% rising
75 Gabon 11.99 years 1999 up 2.9% rising
76 Bhutan 11.97 years 2018 up 16.3% rising
77 South Africa 11.92 years 2018 down 1.3% rising
78 Uzbekistan, Republic of 11.9 years 2019 up 9.0% rising
79 Timor-Leste, Democratic Republic of 11.89 years 2019 up 0.7% rising
80 Belize 11.87 years 2019 up 4.9% rising
81 Korea, Republic of 11.87 years 2018 down 0.0% rising
82 Brazil 11.86 years 2011 down 13.0% falling
83 Egypt 11.77 years 2019 up 15.0% rising
84 Indonesia 11.77 years 2018 up 9.8% rising
85 Kazakhstan, Republic of 11.74 years 2019 up 4.0% rising
86 Albania 11.71 years 2019 up 11.4% flat
87 Suriname 11.7 years 2015 up 11.1% flat
88 Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of 11.68 years 2018 up 10.9% rising
89 Aruba, Kingdom of the Netherlands 11.68 years 2012 down 2.1% flat
90 Iran, Islamic Republic of 11.67 years 2017 up 11.0% rising
91 Croatia, Republic of 11.67 years 2018 up 1.0% rising
92 Kuwait 11.65 years 2015 down 5.9% rising
93 St. Lucia 11.62 years 2019 up 1.9% rising
94 Dominican Republic 11.61 years 2019 down 1.6% rising
95 Russian Federation 11.57 years 2018 up 13.3% rising
96 Botswana 11.56 years 2008 down 0.7% rising
97 Azerbaijan, Republic of 11.56 years 2019 — rising
98 Micronesia, Federated States of 11.55 years 2005 — falling
99 São Tomé and Príncipe, Democratic Republic of 11.54 years 2017 up 17.1% rising
100 Cabo Verde 11.51 years 2018 down 2.6% rising
101 Serbia, Republic of 11.51 years 2019 up 2.9% flat
102 Romania 11.5 years 2018 down 3.5% rising
103 Bahrain, Kingdom of 11.49 years 2019 up 0.8% rising
104 Bolivia 11.44 years 2018 down 4.3% rising
105 North Macedonia, Republic of 11.43 years 2018 up 3.1% rising
106 Colombia 11.42 years 2018 down 0.3% rising
107 Kiribati 11.42 years 2008 up 6.5% rising
108 Mongolia 11.41 years 2010 up 54.7% rising
109 Namibia 11.38 years 2007 up 3.9% rising
110 Belarus, Republic of 11.34 years 2018 down 3.9% rising
111 Trinidad and Tobago 11.3 years 2004 up 6.9% rising
112 Malawi 11.3 years 2019 up 8.9% rising
113 Lesotho, Kingdom of 11.28 years 2017 up 5.8% rising
114 China (People’s Republic of) 11.27 years 2010 up 18.5% rising
115 Malaysia 11.25 years 2017 up 8.9% rising
116 Angola 11.22 years 2011 up 169.5% rising
117 Bermuda 11.21 years 2015 up 2.9% flat
118 Zimbabwe 11.2 years 2013 up 12.5% rising
119 French Polynesia 11.17 years 1993 — flat
120 Bulgaria 11.16 years 2018 down 3.6% rising
121 Gibraltar 11.16 years 2019 up 10.9% rising
122 Barbados 11.16 years 2019 up 0.2% flat
123 Seychelles 11.16 years 2019 down 3.3% rising
124 Maldives 11.05 years 2019 down 5.4% rising
125 Philippines 11.05 years 2018 up 14.4% rising
126 British Virgin Islands 11 years 2018 down 17.9% rising
127 Iraq 11 years 2007 up 31.2% flat
128 Ghana 10.97 years 2019 up 10.0% rising
129 Vanuatu 10.95 years 2015 up 2.8% rising
130 Kyrgyzstan 10.85 years 2019 up 9.6% flat
131 Guyana 10.82 years 2012 down 4.4% rising
132 Nicaragua 10.79 years 2010 up 24.2% rising
133 Paraguay 10.78 years 2012 down 4.7% rising
134 Palestine 10.78 years 2019 up 4.2% rising
135 Solomon Islands 10.77 years 2012 up 28.2% rising
136 Rwanda 10.76 years 2019 up 1.1% rising
137 Turks and Caicos Islands 10.74 years 2018 up 8.6% falling
138 Ukraine 10.68 years 2014 down 1.1% rising
139 Uganda 10.6 years 2007 up 10.9% rising
140 Tajikistan, Republic of 10.57 years 2013 up 4.2% rising
141 Côte d’Ivoire 10.55 years 2019 up 17.7% rising
142 Cambodia 10.5 years 2008 up 35.9% rising
143 San Marino, Republic of 10.49 years 2019 down 17.9% rising
144 Sierra Leone 10.44 years 2017 up 6.5% rising
145 Armenia 10.41 years 2019 up 0.3% rising
146 Papua New Guinea 10.39 years 2016 — rising
147 Bangladesh 10.33 years 2018 up 31.3% rising
148 Kenya 10.28 years 2009 up 29.3% rising
149 Congo, Republic of 10.27 years 2012 up 8.4% falling
150 Panama 10.21 years 2017 down 3.6% rising
151 Comoros, Union of the 10.19 years 2018 down 1.6% rising
152 Venezuela, República Bolivariana de 10.17 years 2017 down 0.5% rising
153 El Salvador 10.12 years 2018 down 9.7% rising
154 Mozambique, Republic of 10.07 years 2017 up 2.7% rising
155 Burundi 9.94 years 2019 up 0.4% volatile
156 India 9.93 years 2019 up 2.7% rising
157 Cayman Islands 9.92 years 2018 down 5.7% falling
158 Puerto Rico 9.91 years 2018 down 9.2% falling
159 Liberia 9.9 years 2015 down 9.7% rising
160 Lao People’s Democratic Republic 9.88 years 2019 up 5.4% rising
161 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 9.88 years 2015 up 9.7% rising
162 Moldova, Republic of 9.68 years 2019 down 1.9% flat
163 Myanmar 9.65 years 2018 up 23.5% rising
164 Yemen, Republic of 9.64 years 2016 down 2.8% flat
165 Guinea 9.48 years 2014 up 21.3% rising
166 Tuvalu 9.39 years 2019 down 12.6% flat
167 Jamaica 9.36 years 2019 down 8.2% falling
168 Guatemala 9.3 years 2019 down 7.5% rising
169 Madagascar 9.26 years 2019 down 9.0% rising
170 Bahamas, The 8.89 years 2018 down 22.5% falling
171 Burkina Faso 8.83 years 2019 up 34.1% volatile
172 Jordan 8.8 years 2019 down 15.4% falling
173 Mauritania, Islamic Republic of 8.79 years 2019 up 16.8% rising
174 Tanzania 8.74 years 2019 down 6.1% rising
175 Honduras 8.62 years 2019 down 1.8% rising
176 Marshall Islands, Republic of the 8.6 years 2019 down 17.8% falling
177 Ethiopia, The Federal Democratic Republic of 8.54 years 2015 up 16.3% rising
178 Pakistan 8.52 years 2019 up 21.0% rising
179 Zambia 8.33 years 1988 up 5.0% rising
180 Central African Republic 8.15 years 2016 up 9.9% rising
181 Chad 8.06 years 2019 up 0.3% rising
182 Nigeria 8.01 years 2016 down 13.4% rising
183 Gambia 7.84 years 2010 up 21.5% rising
184 Senegal 7.66 years 2019 up 2.8% rising
185 Eritrea, The State of 7.57 years 2018 down 14.6% rising
186 Djibouti 7.55 years 2020 up 33.1% rising
187 Syrian Arab Republic 7.5 years 2013 down 25.7% flat
188 Mali 7.38 years 2018 down 4.2% rising
189 Sudan 7.25 years 2017 up 15.5% rising
190 Guinea-Bissau 7.03 years 2000 up 57.0% rising
191 Niger 6.76 years 2017 up 50.2% volatile
192 Equatorial Guinea, Republic of 6.65 years 2005 down 24.2% rising
193 Somalia 2.29 years 2007 — rising

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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 and secondary, male (years)
Unit
years
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
238 places, 7,783 data points, 1970–2020
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Number of years a person of school entrance age can expect to spend within the specified level of education. For a child of a certain age a, the school life expectancy is calculated as the sum of the age specific enrolment rates for the levels of education specified. The part of the enrolment that is not distributed by age is divided by the school-age population for the level of education they are enrolled in, and multiplied by the duration of that level of education. The result is then added to the sum of the age-specific enrolment rates. A relatively high SLE indicates greater probability for children to spend more years in education and higher overall retention within the education system. It must be noted that the expected number of years does not necessarily coincide with the expected number of grades of education completed, because of repetition. Since school life expectancy is an average based on participation in different levels of education, the expected number of years of schooling may be pulled down by the magnitude of children who never go to school. Those children who are in school may benefit from many more years of education than the average.