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Puerto Rico (US)
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#25out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

16.916.416.015.515.1200920142018Puerto Rico (US) · 2018: 16.42 yearsPuerto Rico (US)

Analytical takeaways

  • Puerto Rico (US) records 16.42 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2018, ranking #25 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) declined from 16.44 years in 2009 to 16.42 years in 2018, a decrease of 0.02 years.
  • The country sits in the middle of the global distribution for this metric, making the page a balanced entry point for comparative analysis beyond the extremes.

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