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British Virgin Islands
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#79out of 92 countries
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Historical trend

17.316.014.613.312.0199920092018British Virgin Islands · 2018: 11.97 yearsBritish Virgin Islands

Analytical takeaways

  • British Virgin Islands records 11.97 years for School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) in 2018, ranking #79 globally out of 92 countries.
  • School life expectancy, primary to tertiary, both sexes (years) declined from 16.07 years in 1999 to 11.97 years in 2018, a decrease of 4.10 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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