School life expectancy is a measure of how many years of

education Education is the transmission of knowledge and skills and the development of character traits. Formal education occurs within a structured institutional framework, such as public schools, following a curriculum. Non-formal education als ...

a child of school-entering age would receive during their lifetime if the school enrollment rates stay the same as of today. It is computed by

UNESCO Institute for Statistics The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the statistical office of UNESCO and is the UN depository for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication. The UIS was established in 1999. ...

and is used by statisticians and organisations to compare and assess the development of nations.

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