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Burkina Faso
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#35out of 35 countries
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Historical trend

9.27.04.92.70.6197119952019Burkina Faso · 2019: 9.16 yearsBurkina Faso

Analytical takeaways

  • Burkina Faso records 9.16 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) in 2019, ranking #35 globally out of 35 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) increased from 0.59 years in 1971 to 9.16 years in 2019, a gain of 8.57 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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