School life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi
Malawi: School life expectancy, tertiary, female was 0.0318 years in 2011. ▲ Rising
School life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi, 1980–2011
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.
Analysis
In 2011, school life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi stood at 0.0318 years. That is the highest value across all 26 years on record.
Compared with earlier readings it is up 17.7% on the previous year and up 229.6% over ten years.
Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi peaked at 0.0318 years in 2011 and was at its lowest, 0.0088 years, in 1999.
Malawi ranks 176th of 177 countries on this measure, in the bottom quarter.
The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 26 years of available data.
Averages by decade
| Decade | Average | Lowest | Highest | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 0.0112 years | 0.0094 years | 0.0129 years | 10 |
| 1990s | 0.0148 years | 0.0088 years | 0.0182 years | 8 |
| 2000s | 0.0151 years | 0.0096 years | 0.0179 years | 6 |
| 2010s | 0.0294 years | 0.027 years | 0.0318 years | 2 |
Countries ranked near Malawi
- 173 Chad 0.073 years compare
- 174 Papua New Guinea 0.0641 years compare
- 175 Sierra Leone 0.0571 years compare
- 177 Haiti 0.0267 years compare
More education data for Malawi
- Duration of pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Official entrance age to pre-primary education 3 years (2025)
- Population ages 15-64 57.3% (2025)
- Population ages 0-14 40.1% (2025)
- Lower secondary school starting age 12 years (2025)
- Primary school starting age 6 years (2025)
- School enrollment, primary 139.0% (2024)
- Primary education, teachers 87,834 (2024)
- Fertility rate vs. average years of schooling 3.59 live births per woman (2024)
- School enrollment, primary, female 140.7% (2024)
Frequently asked questions
- What is school life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi?
- School life expectancy, tertiary, female in Malawi was 0.0318 years in 2011, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, female recorded in Malawi?
- The highest recorded value was 0.0318 years in 2011.
- What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, female recorded in Malawi?
- The lowest recorded value was 0.0088 years in 1999.
- How does Malawi rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, female?
- Malawi ranks 176th out of 177 countries with data for 2011.
- Is school life expectancy, tertiary, female rising or falling in Malawi?
- Over the last ten years it is up 229.6%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
- Where does this Malawi data come from?
- The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, tertiary, female (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.
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About this data
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.