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United States
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#27out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

16.315.414.513.612.7197119952018United States · 2018: 16.28 yearsUnited States

Analytical takeaways

  • United States records 16.28 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2018, ranking #27 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) increased from 12.74 years in 1971 to 16.28 years in 2018, a gain of 3.55 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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