School life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)

ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509): School life expectancy, tertiary, male was 0.8778 years in 2016. ▲ Rising

Latest (2016)
0.8778 years
Change on year
down 4.7%
Rank
156th
of 221 groups
All-time high
0.9208 years
in 2015
All-time low
0.3377 years
in 1971
Years of data
44
1971–2016

School life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1971–2016

00.20.40.60.811971199320161971: 0.338 years1972: 0.366 years1973: 0.365 years1974: 0.372 years1975: 0.385 years1976: 0.389 years1977: 0.428 years1978: 0.443 years1979: 0.46 years1980: 0.44 years1981: 0.478 years1982: 0.47 years1983: 0.471 years1984: 0.469 years1985: 0.482 years1986: 0.481 years1987: 0.476 years1988: 0.498 years1991: 0.482 years1992: 0.473 years1993: 0.471 years1994: 0.449 years1995: 0.441 years1996: 0.433 years1997: 0.427 years1998: 0.471 years1999: 0.511 years2000: 0.501 years2001: 0.525 years2002: 0.535 years2003: 0.521 years2004: 0.574 years2005: 0.63 years2006: 0.669 years2007: 0.699 years2008: 0.741 years2009: 0.754 years2010: 0.762 years2011: 0.731 years2012: 0.773 years2013: 0.822 years2014: 0.918 years2015: 0.921 years2016: 0.878 years

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Measured in years.

Analysis

In 2016, school life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) stood at 0.8778 years.

That represents a change of down 4.7% on the previous year and up 31.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, school life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) peaked at 0.9208 years in 2015 and was at its lowest, 0.3377 years, in 1971.

That places ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) 156th out of 221 groups with data for 2016, putting it in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 44 years of available data.

School life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), year by year

Annual values for School life expectancy, tertiary, male (years) in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509), 1971 to 2016.
Year years Change
1971 0.3377 years
1972 0.3663 years +8.5%
1973 0.3646 years -0.5%
1974 0.3725 years +2.2%
1975 0.385 years +3.4%
1976 0.3892 years +1.1%
1977 0.4276 years +9.9%
1978 0.4427 years +3.5%
1979 0.4603 years +4.0%
1980 0.4402 years -4.4%
1981 0.4777 years +8.5%
1982 0.4699 years -1.6%
1983 0.4709 years +0.2%
1984 0.4693 years -0.3%
1985 0.4821 years +2.7%
1986 0.481 years -0.2%
1987 0.4758 years -1.1%
1988 0.4978 years +4.6%
1991 0.4824 years -3.1%
1992 0.4728 years -2.0%
1993 0.471 years -0.4%
1994 0.4486 years -4.8%
1995 0.4406 years -1.8%
1996 0.4333 years -1.7%
1997 0.4266 years -1.5%
1998 0.4712 years +10.4%
1999 0.5107 years +8.4%
2000 0.5007 years -2.0%
2001 0.5255 years +5.0%
2002 0.5347 years +1.8%
2003 0.5213 years -2.5%
2004 0.5744 years +10.2%
2005 0.6304 years +9.7%
2006 0.6691 years +6.1%
2007 0.6988 years +4.4%
2008 0.7409 years +6.0%
2009 0.7542 years +1.8%
2010 0.7616 years +1.0%
2011 0.731 years -4.0%
2012 0.7734 years +5.8%
2013 0.8224 years +6.3%
2014 0.9184 years +11.7%
2015 0.9208 years +0.3%
2016 0.8778 years -4.7%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1970s 0.394 years 0.3377 years 0.4603 years 9
1980s 0.4738 years 0.4402 years 0.4978 years 9
1990s 0.4619 years 0.4266 years 0.5107 years 9
2000s 0.615 years 0.5007 years 0.7542 years 10
2010s 0.8293 years 0.731 years 0.9208 years 7

Countries ranked near ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)

  1. 153 Kenya 0.6683 years compare
  2. 154 Sao Tome and Principe 0.632 years compare
  3. 155 Cote d'Ivoire 0.6265 years compare
  4. 156 Samoa 0.6128 years compare
  5. 157 Yemen 0.6046 years compare
  6. 158 Nigeria 0.5734 years compare
  7. 159 Pakistan 0.5354 years compare

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Frequently asked questions

What is school life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
School life expectancy, tertiary, male in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) was 0.8778 years in 2016, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
What is the highest school life expectancy, tertiary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
The highest recorded value was 0.9208 years in 2015.
What is the lowest school life expectancy, tertiary, male recorded in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
The lowest recorded value was 0.3377 years in 1971.
How does ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) rank for school life expectancy, tertiary, male?
ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) ranks 156th out of 221 groups with data for 2016.
Is school life expectancy, tertiary, male rising or falling in ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509)?
Over the last ten years it is up 31.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this ESCWA: Arab Low-income Countries (lics) (unsdcode:98509) data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics, published as part of School life expectancy, tertiary, male (years). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

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Indicator
School life expectancy, tertiary, male (years)
Unit
years
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO (UNESCO Institute for Statistics)
Coverage
412 places, 14,076 data points, 1970–2025
Last refreshed

February 2026 Data Release