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Afghanistan
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years)

Expected years of schooling is the number of years a child of school entrance age is expected to spend at school, or university, including years spent on repetition. It is the sum of the age-specific enrolment ratios for primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education.

Global rank#91out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

7.86.04.22.50.7197019942018Afghanistan · 2018: 7.72 yearsAfghanistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Afghanistan records 7.72 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) in 2018, ranking #91 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) increased from 0.68 years in 1970 to 7.72 years in 2018, a gain of 7.04 years.
  • The country sits in the bottom quartile of the global distribution for this metric, which also makes the page relevant for low-value and lagging-performance searches.

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