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Iceland
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#6out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

20.818.416.013.611.2197119952018Iceland · 2018: 20.21 yearsIceland

Analytical takeaways

  • Iceland records 20.21 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) in 2018, ranking #6 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, female (years) increased from 11.22 years in 1971 to 20.21 years in 2018, a gain of 9.00 years.
  • The country sits in the top quartile of the global distribution for this metric, making the page useful for leader-oriented high-intent searches.

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