Female expected years of schooling

years, 2009–2017

Country	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Afghanistan	6.60	7.00	7.40	7.57	7.73	7.90
Albania	12.60	13.30	14.00	15.00	15.80	16.30	16.10	15.90	15.80
Algeria	13.70	14.20	14.60
Angola		7.50	7.20
Antigua and Barbuda	13.20	13.00	12.60	13.40
Argentina	17.80	18.10	18.40	18.30	18.30	18.50	18.60	18.90
Armenia	13.20	13.40	13.40	13.40	13.40	13.50	13.40
Aruba	13.80	13.90	13.70	14.20
Australia							23.70	23.30
Austria						16.10	16.20	16.40
Azerbaijan								13.20	13.50
Bahrain			14.30	14.30	14.60	14.70	15.80	16.20	16.10
Bangladesh	9.00	9.33	9.65	9.98	10.30	10.63	10.95	11.28	11.60
Barbados	17.30	16.80	16.70
Belarus	16.10	16.10	16.20	16.30	16.10	16.00	16.00	15.90	15.70
Belgium	20.00	20.00	20.10	20.20	20.40	20.70	20.80	20.60
Belize	12.70	12.70	12.80	13.20	13.00	13.00	13.00	13.60	13.40
Benin			9.80	10.40	11.00	11.10	11.40	11.50
Bermuda			13.30	12.90	12.80	12.30	12.30
Bhutan	11.10	11.60	12.00	12.40	12.30
Brazil	14.20	14.25	14.30	14.30	15.60	15.80	15.70
Brunei	14.40	14.30	14.60	15.20	15.30	15.20	14.90	14.90	14.80
Bulgaria	14.50	14.70	14.80	14.80	15.20	15.40	15.30	15.00
Burkina Faso	5.70	6.20	6.60	7.00	7.30	7.50	8.00	8.30	8.70
Burma (Myanmar)									10.50
Burundi		9.90	10.40	10.60	10.90	11.30	11.45	11.60	11.10
Cameroon	9.30	9.65	10.00	10.70	11.00	11.30	11.60	11.90
Canada	15.70	15.50	15.70	16.20	16.30	16.40	16.50	16.60
Cape Verde	12.60	12.70	12.90	12.70	13.00	12.80	12.40	12.20	12.10
Central African Republic	5.20	5.37	5.53	5.70
Chad	5.10	5.20	5.80	6.00	6.20	6.40
Chile	15.00	15.30	15.50	15.60	16.20	16.40	16.50	16.70
China	12.70	12.90	13.10	13.30	13.70
Colombia	14.60	14.60	14.70	14.40	14.80	14.70	14.70	14.90	14.90
Comoros					11.10	11.10
Congo (Brazzaville)				10.40
Congo (Kinshasa)	7.50	7.85	8.20	8.20	8.50
Costa Rica			14.80	14.90	15.20	15.60	15.70	15.80
Croatia	14.60	15.10	15.20	15.40	15.80	15.80	15.80	15.70
Cuba	18.80	17.60	16.80	15.60	14.80	14.55	14.30	14.40
Curacao					19.00
Cyprus	14.50	13.80	13.90	14.00	14.30	14.70	15.00
Czech Republic	16.30	16.50	16.60	16.60	17.40	17.50	17.60	17.60
Denmark	17.50	17.60	19.10	19.30	19.80	20.00	20.10	19.80
Djibouti	4.80	5.15	5.50
Dominican Republic				13.60	13.65	13.70	14.50	14.50
Ecuador				15.60	15.77	15.93	16.10
Egypt	11.60	11.70	11.80	12.20	12.50	12.60	12.85	13.10
El Salvador	12.30	12.30	12.50	12.50	12.70	12.50	12.20	11.90
Eritrea	4.80	4.80	4.90	5.00	5.10	5.20	4.90
Estonia	17.30	17.40	17.40	17.40	17.20	17.00	16.90	16.80
Ethiopia	7.50	7.60	7.80	7.90
Finland	17.40	17.50	17.70	17.70	20.10	20.10	20.10	20.10
France	15.30	15.40	15.50	15.60	15.70	15.90	15.70	15.80
Gambia	8.80	8.60
Georgia					14.10	14.50	15.00	15.30	15.70
Germany					16.70	16.70	16.90	17.00
Ghana	9.90	10.25	10.60	10.90	11.10	10.90	11.40	11.40	11.40
Greece		16.10	16.20	16.50	16.60	17.00	17.35	17.70
Grenada	16.20	16.32	16.43	16.55	16.67	16.78	16.90	17.40	17.00
Guatemala					10.40	10.50	10.60
Guinea			7.30	7.47	7.63	7.80
Guyana	10.90	11.30	11.80	11.70
Honduras		11.10	11.00	10.90	10.70	10.40	10.70
Hungary	15.60	15.60	15.50	15.60	16.00	15.80	15.60	15.40
Iceland	19.60	19.80	19.70	19.90	20.70	20.80	20.50	20.40
India	10.20	10.50	11.00	11.45	11.90	12.20	12.30	12.90
Indonesia	11.90	12.30	12.50	12.90	12.80	12.80	13.00	13.20	13.40
Iran	12.90	13.00	13.50	14.90	14.70	14.60
Ireland	17.20	17.60	18.00	17.90	18.15	18.40	18.80	18.90
Israel	16.10	16.25	16.40	16.40	16.50	16.50	16.50	16.50
Italy	16.80	16.80	17.10	16.90	16.70	16.70	16.60	16.60
Ivory Coast						7.70	8.10	8.70
Japan	14.80	14.90	15.00	15.10	15.10	15.10	15.20	15.20
Kazakhstan		14.70	15.00	15.30	15.30	15.30	15.40	15.40	15.50
Kenya	10.20
Kuwait					14.30
Kyrgyzstan	12.90	12.70	12.60	13.00	13.40	13.50	13.60	13.70	13.60
Laos	9.00	9.30	9.70	10.00	10.40	10.70	10.90	10.90	10.80
Latvia	16.60	16.40	16.20	16.00	16.40	16.30	16.50	16.70
Lebanon	13.10	13.00	13.00	12.40	12.10	11.40
Lesotho				11.60	11.20	11.10	11.00
Liechtenstein	13.50	13.40	13.70	13.80	13.65	13.50	13.40	13.40
Lithuania	17.60	17.50	17.50	17.30	17.20	17.00	16.90	16.90
Luxembourg		14.00	14.00	14.00	14.03	14.07	14.10	14.30
Macau	13.10	13.30	13.50	13.50	14.00	14.60	15.20	16.10	16.50
Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)	12.80	12.90	12.95	13.00	13.00	13.10	13.50
Madagascar	10.00	10.00	10.00	10.10	10.20	10.30	10.50	10.40
Malawi		10.20	10.40
Malaysia	13.10	13.30	13.20	13.40	13.70	13.90	14.00	14.10	13.80
Mali	6.40	6.60	6.80	6.77	6.73	6.70	6.70
Malta		15.20	15.20	15.40	15.50	15.80	16.30	16.40
Mauritania	7.50	7.60	7.60	8.00	8.40	8.55	8.70	8.40	8.50
Mauritius	14.30	14.40	14.70	15.30	15.20	15.60	15.50	15.50	15.50
Mexico	12.90	13.00	13.10	13.30	13.50	13.70	13.90	14.40
Moldova	12.20	12.10	12.10	12.10	12.10	12.10	11.90	11.80	11.80
Mongolia	15.00	15.30
Montenegro	15.20	15.40	15.37	15.33	15.30	15.27	15.23	15.20	15.30
Morocco	10.20	10.60	10.90	11.20	11.56	11.92	12.28	12.64	13.00
Mozambique	8.70	8.90	8.70	8.60	9.20	9.20	9.20	9.25	9.30
Nepal	10.90	11.90	12.40	12.50	12.60	12.60	12.60	12.60	12.70
Netherlands	16.80	17.10	18.00	17.90	18.07	18.23	18.40	18.30
New Zealand	21.00	20.50	20.20	20.00	19.80	19.60	19.70	19.70
Niger	3.70	4.10	4.40	4.60	4.83	5.07	5.30	5.55	5.80
Nigeria		7.90	8.20
North Korea							10.40
Norway	18.10	18.30	18.30	18.20	18.40	18.30	18.50	18.70
Oman	13.30	13.50	13.70	14.20	14.70	15.00	15.30	15.50
Pakistan	6.80	6.80	6.80	7.00	7.00	7.40	7.40	7.80	7.70
Palau					17.80
Panama	13.20	13.30	13.20	13.23	13.27	13.30	13.30
Paraguay	12.70	12.60
Peru								14.80
Philippines	11.60	11.88	12.16	12.44	12.72	13.00
Poland	15.70	16.10	16.10	16.20	17.20	16.80	17.00	17.30
Portugal	16.20	16.30	16.30	16.40	16.70	16.40	16.30	16.20
Puerto Rico	17.00	17.40	17.00	15.50	15.40	15.30	16.60
Qatar	13.60	13.70	13.90	13.50	13.30	13.70	14.20	14.10	14.10
Romania	16.10	16.00	15.50	14.80	14.83	14.87	14.90	14.60
Russia	14.30	14.75	15.20	15.00	15.30	15.30	15.70	15.90
Rwanda	11.00	11.20	11.40	11.60	11.40	11.40	10.90	11.20	11.20
Saint Thomas and Principe	10.40	10.20	10.45	10.70	11.10	11.50	12.60
San Marino		16.50	15.80	15.60
Saudi Arabia	13.30	13.88	14.45	15.03	15.60	16.00
Senegal		7.80	8.70	8.90	9.00	9.30	9.25	9.20	9.40
Serbia	14.00	13.90	14.50	14.60	14.80	14.80	15.00	15.10	15.30
Seychelles	14.00	13.90	12.60	14.10	14.40	16.30	16.40	16.30
Singapore								16.60
Slovakia	15.60	15.60	15.60	15.50	15.50	15.40	15.20	15.00
Slovenia	17.80	17.90	18.00	17.70	18.40	18.00	18.00	18.20
South Africa				13.10	13.40	13.70	13.85	14.00
South Korea	15.90	16.00	16.00	15.90	15.80	15.90	15.90	15.80
Spain	16.90	17.30	17.60	17.80	17.90	18.00	18.10	18.20
Sri Lanka		13.80	13.90	14.10	14.30	14.23	14.17	14.10	14.30
Sudan	6.90	6.90	6.60	6.90	7.20	7.30	7.40
Swaziland			10.70	10.75	10.80
Sweden	16.50	16.70	16.50	16.60	19.50	19.50	19.80	20.00
Switzerland	15.30	15.50	15.60	15.70	15.90	16.00	16.10	16.10
Syria	11.50	11.60	12.10	12.60	8.70
Tajikistan	10.30	10.20	10.30	10.40	10.50
Tanzania		8.60	8.43	8.27	8.10
Thailand	13.70	13.70	14.00	13.80	13.70	16.20	16.00	15.80
Timor Leste	11.30	12.00
Togo									11.40
Tunisia	14.90	15.00	15.10	15.24	15.38	15.52	15.66	15.80
Turkey	12.40	13.20	13.70	13.90	15.90	16.50	16.80	17.20
Turkmenistan						10.50
Ukraine	15.20	15.10	15.00	15.10	15.10	15.20
United Arab Emirates								14.30
United Kingdom	16.60	16.80	16.20	16.10	18.20	18.40	17.90	19.80
United States	16.80	16.90	17.00	17.00	16.80	16.90	16.90	16.90
Uzbekistan	11.30	11.30	11.30	11.40	11.50	11.50	11.50	11.70	11.80
West Bank and Gaza	13.80	14.00	14.00	13.90	13.70	13.70	13.70	13.60	13.70
Yemen		7.20	7.60
Zimbabwe				10.20	10.10

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 enrollment ratios for primary, secondary, post-secondary non-tertiary and tertiary education.

Source: World Bank

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