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School life expectancy, primary, 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
193
Highest
9.09 years
Namibia
Lowest
1.8 years
Somalia
Median
6.12 years
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
9,331

What the numbers show

School life expectancy, primary, male (years) is currently reported for 193 countries. The highest value is 9.09 years in Namibia; the lowest is 1.8 years in Somalia.

The median across all reporting countries is 6.12 years, and the mean is 6.03 years.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 5.

Over the past decade 88 countries rose and 104 fell. The largest increase was in Papua New Guinea (up 98.3%), and the largest decrease in Oman (down 38.4%).

School life expectancy, primary, male: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Namibia 9.09 years 2018 up 11.2% flat
2 Malawi 8.8 years 2019 up 7.4% rising
3 Lesotho 8.64 years 2017 down 1.7% rising
4 Mozambique 8.64 years 2019 down 2.0% rising
5 Gabon 8.6 years 2011 up 6.0% falling
6 Eswatini 8.59 years 2018 down 3.2% rising
7 Sierra Leone 8.45 years 2019 up 19.1% rising
8 Rwanda 8.2 years 2019 down 9.1% rising
10 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 8 years 2018 up 0.9% falling
11 Zimbabwe 7.96 years 2013 up 7.8% rising
12 Saint Kitts and Nevis 7.74 years 2016 up 0.1% rising
13 Guinea-Bissau 7.69 years 2010 up 34.5% rising
14 Togo 7.69 years 2019 down 6.5% rising
15 Grenada 7.6 years 2018 down 2.5% falling
16 Trinidad and Tobago 7.54 years 2010 up 3.0% falling
17 Sweden 7.5 years 2018 up 25.9% rising
18 Afghanistan 7.47 years 2018 up 1.6% rising
19 Botswana 7.43 years 2015 down 5.5% rising
20 Antigua and Barbuda 7.37 years 2018 down 10.0% rising
21 Nauru 7.36 years 2019 up 30.9% falling
22 Democratic Republic of Congo 7.33 years 2018 up 10.9% falling
23 Bhutan 7.32 years 2020 down 1.2% rising
24 Nicaragua 7.28 years 2010 up 17.9% rising
25 Angola 7.27 years 2015 up 0.7% rising
26 Palau 7.24 years 2014 up 30.3% rising
27 Burundi 7.24 years 2019 down 10.8% volatile
28 Benin 7.22 years 2019 down 4.9% rising
29 British Virgin Islands 7.22 years 2018 down 10.0% flat
30 Iraq 7.21 years 2007 up 30.2% flat
31 Vanuatu 7.13 years 2015 down 1.7% flat
32 Dominica 7.13 years 2019 up 1.0% falling
33 Fiji 7.12 years 2019 up 12.4% flat
34 Uganda 7.11 years 2017 down 19.9% rising
35 Aruba 7.1 years 2014 up 2.0% flat
36 South Africa 7.09 years 2018 down 7.2% rising
37 Saint Lucia 7.08 years 2019 down 2.0% falling
38 Morocco 7.07 years 2019 up 7.0% rising
39 Denmark 7.04 years 2018 up 18.4% rising
40 Iceland 7.04 years 2018 up 1.6% rising
41 Australia 7.03 years 2018 down 3.8% rising
42 Norway 7.01 years 2018 up 1.0% rising
43 Zambia 7 years 2017 down 18.3% rising
44 Tunisia 6.99 years 2018 up 11.2% falling
45 Tonga 6.97 years 2015 up 2.0% flat
46 Papua New Guinea 6.96 years 2016 up 98.3% rising
47 Peru 6.95 years 2019 up 5.6% falling
48 Turks and Caicos Islands 6.94 years 2018 up 25.4% falling
49 American Samoa 6.93 years 1992 down 13.0% falling
50 Samoa 6.92 years 2019 up 6.5% rising
51 Haiti 6.91 years 1998 up 34.5% rising
52 Costa Rica 6.91 years 2019 down 0.9% rising
53 Dominican Republic 6.9 years 2019 down 4.2% rising
54 Tanzania 6.9 years 2019 down 8.7% rising
55 Nepal 6.9 years 2019 up 2.7% rising
56 Tuvalu 6.88 years 2019 up 1.8% flat
57 Central African Republic 6.87 years 2016 up 47.9% flat
58 East Timor 6.8 years 2019 down 11.7% flat
59 Madagascar 6.8 years 2019 down 13.4% rising
60 Solomon Islands 6.8 years 2018 up 0.5% rising
61 Maldives 6.77 years 2019 down 12.5% flat
62 Belize 6.73 years 2019 down 3.2% flat
63 Cameroon 6.71 years 2019 down 2.9% rising
64 Libya 6.68 years 2006 up 2.6% falling
65 Sao Tome and Principe 6.62 years 2017 down 12.2% rising
66 Argentina 6.61 years 2017 down 7.2% falling
67 Cambodia 6.58 years 2019 down 13.8% rising
68 Suriname 6.57 years 2019 down 4.6% falling
69 Indonesia 6.49 years 2018 down 0.7% rising
70 Cape Verde 6.46 years 2018 down 8.0% flat
71 Iran 6.44 years 2017 up 27.6% flat
72 Portugal 6.44 years 2018 down 9.6% falling
73 Hong Kong 6.43 years 2019 up 2.3% falling
74 Gibraltar 6.4 years 2019 down 3.8% flat
75 Ghana 6.39 years 2019 up 2.1% rising
76 Ethiopia 6.39 years 2015 up 17.2% rising
78 Egypt 6.38 years 2019 up 3.0% rising
79 Uruguay 6.38 years 2018 down 8.1% flat
80 Paraguay 6.33 years 2012 down 12.0% rising
81 Switzerland 6.33 years 2018 up 2.0% rising
82 Congo 6.33 years 2012 down 1.0% falling
83 Netherlands 6.3 years 2018 down 3.6% rising
84 Mexico 6.28 years 2018 down 5.2% falling
85 Malaysia 6.28 years 2017 up 7.1% rising
86 Israel 6.28 years 2018 up 0.8% flat
88 Cuba 6.26 years 2019 up 2.5% falling
89 Philippines 6.25 years 2018 down 3.2% flat
90 Cote d'Ivoire 6.23 years 2019 up 26.9% rising
91 Chile 6.22 years 2018 down 5.7% falling
92 Macao 6.21 years 2019 up 10.6% rising
93 Belgium 6.19 years 2018 up 1.1% flat
94 Kenya 6.18 years 2016 down 0.8% rising
95 Guatemala 6.17 years 2019 down 13.1% rising
96 Ecuador 6.14 years 2018 down 4.5% flat
97 Slovenia 6.14 years 2018 up 3.6% rising
98 Barbados 6.14 years 2019 up 2.2% falling
99 Bermuda 6.12 years 2015 up 7.2% falling
100 Chad 6.12 years 2019 up 6.3% rising
101 Qatar 6.11 years 2019 down 1.7% falling
102 Canada 6.1 years 2018 up 3.7% flat
103 Comoros 6.1 years 2018 down 10.0% rising
104 China 6.09 years 2019 up 1.1% falling
105 Spain 6.08 years 2018 down 3.5% rising
106 United Kingdom 6.07 years 2018 down 3.8% flat
107 United States 6.07 years 2018 down 1.7% flat
108 Yemen 6.05 years 2016 down 2.3% rising
109 Guinea 6.05 years 2016 up 13.1% rising
110 New Zealand 6.05 years 2018 down 0.3% falling
111 Thailand 6.04 years 2019 up 1.3% flat
112 Mauritania 6.04 years 2019 up 1.3% rising
113 Saudi Arabia 6.04 years 2019 down 4.9% rising
114 Finland 6.03 years 2018 up 1.3% rising
115 Cyprus 6.02 years 2018 down 3.2% rising
116 Brunei 6 years 2019 down 7.1% falling
117 Guyana 6 years 2012 down 3.6% flat
118 South Korea 5.98 years 2018 down 2.9% falling
119 Latvia 5.97 years 2018 down 4.1% rising
120 Georgia 5.96 years 2019 down 3.1% rising
121 Greece 5.95 years 2018 up 1.6% flat
122 Gambia 5.94 years 2019 up 25.5% rising
123 Micronesia (country) 5.93 years 2019 down 12.0% falling
124 Bahrain 5.93 years 2019 up 5.0% falling
125 Bolivia 5.93 years 2018 down 12.1% flat
126 Kiribati 5.91 years 2017 down 5.5% falling
127 Venezuela 5.9 years 2017 down 8.3% rising
128 Seychelles 5.9 years 2019 down 7.4% rising
129 Estonia 5.9 years 2018 down 4.2% flat
130 Mauritius 5.88 years 2019 down 4.5% flat
131 French Polynesia 5.85 years 1996 down 12.1% falling
132 Poland 5.84 years 2018 up 2.4% falling
133 Burkina Faso 5.79 years 2019 up 17.6% volatile
134 El Salvador 5.79 years 2018 down 18.8% rising
135 Colombia 5.76 years 2018 down 7.7% rising
136 Panama 5.75 years 2017 down 13.6% falling
137 Myanmar 5.71 years 2018 up 14.8% rising
138 Vietnam 5.71 years 2019 up 10.4% flat
139 Bangladesh 5.6 years 2018 up 15.9% rising
140 Algeria 5.56 years 2019 down 3.1% flat
141 Liberia 5.52 years 2017 down 20.2% rising
142 Honduras 5.48 years 2019 down 9.2% rising
143 United Arab Emirates 5.44 years 2017 up 8.3% falling
144 Brazil 5.36 years 2011 down 12.7% falling
145 Cayman Islands 5.35 years 2018 down 9.9% falling
146 Nigeria 5.35 years 2016 down 23.3% rising
147 Mongolia 5.29 years 2018 up 0.6% rising
149 Pakistan 5.22 years 2019 up 15.9% rising
150 Jamaica 5.16 years 2019 down 10.7% falling
151 France 5.16 years 2018 down 1.0% falling
152 Albania 5.15 years 2019 up 12.0% rising
153 Italy 5.12 years 2018 down 2.3% flat
154 Laos 5.1 years 2019 down 19.2% rising
155 Czechia 5.06 years 2018 down 2.7% rising
156 Sri Lanka 5.03 years 2018 up 2.7% falling
157 Montenegro 5.02 years 2019 up 8.4% rising
158 Puerto Rico 5.01 years 2018 down 12.1% falling
159 San Marino 4.97 years 2019 down 13.9% flat
160 Lebanon 4.97 years 1985 down 29.3% falling
161 Jordan 4.95 years 2019 down 7.4% falling
162 North Macedonia 4.91 years 2018 up 10.9% rising
163 Bahamas 4.86 years 2018 down 18.0% falling
164 Marshall Islands 4.85 years 2019 down 18.2% falling
165 Sudan 4.84 years 2017 up 10.3% rising
166 India 4.81 years 2019 down 10.7% rising
167 Mali 4.72 years 2018 down 10.3% rising
168 Senegal 4.62 years 2019 down 8.1% rising
169 Romania 4.38 years 2018 up 9.2% flat
170 Niger 4.27 years 2019 up 8.4% rising
171 Russia 4.21 years 2018 up 8.1% rising
172 Kyrgyzstan 4.2 years 2019 up 5.7% rising
173 Lithuania 4.17 years 2018 up 4.0% rising
174 Austria 4.14 years 2018 up 3.2% flat
175 Kuwait 4.14 years 2019 down 20.0% rising
176 Germany 4.13 years 2018 down 0.4% flat
177 Uzbekistan 4.11 years 2019 up 9.7% rising
178 Belarus 4.07 years 2018 down 2.9% flat
179 Kazakhstan 4.07 years 2019 down 5.7% rising
180 Tajikistan 4.04 years 2017 down 0.2% rising
181 Slovakia 4.02 years 2018 down 1.1% flat
182 Serbia 3.99 years 2019 up 1.8% flat
183 Ukraine 3.98 years 2014 up 4.1% rising
184 Azerbaijan 3.92 years 2019 up 3.2% rising
185 Palestine 3.91 years 2019 up 8.9% rising
186 Oman 3.91 years 2019 down 38.4% rising
187 Equatorial Guinea 3.9 years 2015 down 14.8% falling
188 Hungary 3.89 years 2018 down 3.9% flat
189 Eritrea 3.85 years 2018 down 26.2% rising
190 Turkey 3.82 years 2018 down 26.6% falling
191 Croatia 3.78 years 2018 up 0.4% rising
192 Djibouti 3.77 years 2020 up 27.4% rising
193 Armenia 3.67 years 2019 up 12.1% rising
194 Moldova 3.63 years 2019 down 3.8% flat
195 Bulgaria 3.51 years 2018 down 19.3% flat
196 Syria 3.31 years 2013 down 33.1% falling
197 Somalia 1.8 years 2007 — 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, male (years)
Unit
years
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
242 places, 9,331 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

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.