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Saudi Arabia
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#5out of 35 countries
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Historical trend

16.113.510.98.35.7197919992019Saudi Arabia · 2019: 16.03 yearsSaudi Arabia

Analytical takeaways

  • Saudi Arabia records 16.03 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2019, ranking #5 globally out of 35 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) increased from 5.75 years in 1979 to 16.03 years in 2019, a gain of 10.28 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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