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Panama
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#80out of 100 countries
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Historical trend

13.011.910.99.98.8197019932016Panama · 2016: 12.91 yearsPanama

Analytical takeaways

  • Panama records 12.91 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2016, ranking #80 globally out of 100 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) increased from 8.84 years in 1970 to 12.91 years in 2016, a gain of 4.07 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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