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Afghanistan
School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (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#88out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

10.28.16.03.91.8197019942018Afghanistan · 2018: 10.20 yearsAfghanistan

Analytical takeaways

  • Afghanistan records 10.20 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2018, ranking #88 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) increased from 2.41 years in 1970 to 10.20 years in 2018, a gain of 7.79 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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