Indicators on education
Source: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
Access to schooling: estimates of expected
number of years of formal schooling, 1992
Total Male Female
Algeria 10.2 11.0 9.2
Argentina 13.2 13.0 13.5
Australia 13.6 13.4 13.9
Austria 14.6 14.9 14.2
Bahamas 12.7 12.2 13.1
Bahrain 12.9 12.5 13.2
Bangladesh 5.2 5.9 4.4
Barbados 12.9 12.8 12.9
Belgium 14.4 14.4 14.4
Belize 10.3 10.4 10.3
Bolivia 9.7 10.5 8.9
Botswana 10.7 10.4 10.9
Brazil 10.9 ... ...
Brunei Darussalam 11.2 11.2 11.2
Bulgaria 11.7 11.4 11.9
Burkina Faso 2.7 3.4 2.1
Burundi 4.5 5.1 4.0
Canada 17.6 17.2 17.9
Chile 11.8 11.8 11.8
Colombia 10.3 ... ...
Costa Rica 9.5 9.6 9.4
Croatia 11.2 11.1 11.3
Cuba 12.3 11.8 12.9
Dem. Rep. of the Congo 5.6 6.7 4.4
Denmark 15.1 14.9 15.4
Dominican Republic 10.3 10.1 10.4
Egypt 9.8 10.8 8.8
El Salvador 8.6 8.7 8.5
Estonia 12.4 12.1 12.7
France 14.6 14.3 15.0
Gambia 5.0 6.1 4.0
Germany 14.6 15.0 14.2
Greece 13.2 13.2 13.2
Guinea 2.7 3.8 1.6
Honduras 8.2 ... ...
Hungary 12.0 12.0 12.0
Indonesia 9.6 10.0 9.2
Iran (Islamic Republic of) 8.8 9.9 7.6
Iraq 8.3 9.4 7.1
Ireland 13.1 12.9 13.3
Jamaica 11.0 10.9 11.1
Japan 13.5 ... ...
Jordan 11.5 11.4 11.6
Korea, Republic of 13.7 14.3 13.0
Lao People's Dem. Rep. 6.7 7.9 5.5
Lesotho 8.6 7.8 9.5
Malawi 5.6 6.3 5.0
Mali 1.8 2.3 1.2
Malta 13.1 13.3 12.8
Mexico 10.7 ... ...
Morocco 6.9 8.0 5.7
Mozambique 3.4 4.0 2.9
Namibia 12.6 12.0 13.0
Netherlands 15.5 15.7 15.2
New Zealand 15.4 15.2 15.5
Nicaragua 8.5 8.4 8.7
Niger 2.1 2.8 1.4
Norway 15.5 15.3 15.6
Oman 7.9 8.4 7.4
Panama 11.1 11.0 11.3
Paraguay 8.5 8.6 8.3
Peru 12.5 ... ...
Philippines 10.8 10.7 10.9
Poland 12.1 12.0 12.3
Qatar 11.1 10.5 11.8
Romania 10.8 10.9 10.7
Rwanda 5.7 5.9 5.5
Saudi Arabia 8.1 8.6 7.7
Senegal 4.6 5.6 3.6
South Africa 12.0 11.7 12.2
Spain 14.7 14.4 15.0
Sweden 13.8 13.6 14.0
Switzerland 14.1 14.6 13.6
Syrian Arab Republic 9.5 10.2 8.7
Togo 8.2 10.6 5.9
Trinidad and Tobago 10.6 10.6 10.6
Tunisia 10.3 10.9 9.7
Turkey 9.3 ... ...
United Arab Emirates 11.2 10.7 11.7
United Kingdom 14.9 14.7 15.0
United States 16.0 15.6 16.3
Vanuatu 6.9 7.3 6.5
Venezuela 10.6 10.4 10.7
Source:
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization,
World Education Report 1995 (Oxford, UNESCO Publishing, 1995).
... Not available.
Technical notes:
The expected number of years of schooling, or school life
expectancy (SLE), is defined as the total number of years of schooling
which a child can expect to receive in the future, assuming that the
probability of his or her being enrolled in school at any particular
future age is equal to the current enrolment ratio at that age.
Caution should be exercised when utilizing this indicator in
international comparisons. For example, a year or grade completed in
one country is not necessarily the same in terms of educational content
or quality as a year or grade completed in another country. Moreover,
it should be noted that SLE does not necessarily coincide with the
expected number of grades completed, because of the possibility of
repeating grades.
Thus, school life expectancy represents the expected number
of years of schooling that will be completed, including years spent
repeating one or more grades. It is a synthetic summary indicator of
the overall pattern of enrolment ratios at one particular point in time,
and has no predictive value except in so far as it is believed that
enrolment patterns will remain unchanged into the future.
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