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South Africa: School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, both sexes

9.22years · 2023+0.1% since 2011

School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, both sexes (years). UNESCO Institute for Statistics indicator SLE.1T2. Annual figures for South Africa from 2000 to 2023.

20002023

Every year

YearValue (years)Note
20239.221
20229.253
20219.262
20209.263
20199.224
20189.143
20179.24
20169.338UIS_EST
20159.484UIS_EST
20129.347
20119.216
20109.142
20098.978
20088.837
20078.787
20068.689
20058.606UIS_EST
20048.521
20038.377
20028.423
20018.218
20008.198

Source

Published by UIS, produced by UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO. Retrieved 2026-11-08.

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UIS (2026). School life expectancy, primary and lower secondary, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/uis-sle-1t2 (accessed 2026-11-14). catalog snapshot 2026-11-08.

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