Dataset · UIS

Bachelor's or Higher Attainment

11 years, 2013–2023 · 90 countries · 3 measures

This is the share of adults aged 25 and over who hold at least a bachelor's degree or its equivalent. It describes how far a country's adult population went in education, one rung above upper secondary attainment on the same ladder.

This site holds every year from 2013 to 2023, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2023
Held: 11 years · 998 rows
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

11years held
2013–2023years
998rows across every year
90countries in the newest188 across every year
3measures per country
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

0111 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2013bar height: countries covered, up to 1132023

Every year of Bachelor's or Higher Attainment held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2023Newest	90	+21 −36	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2022	105	+39 −18	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2021	84	+24 −29	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2020	89	+20 −44	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2019	113	+33 −21	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2018	101	+33 −28	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2017	96	+28 −21	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2016	89	+25 −24	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2015	88	+23 −18	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2014	83	+38 −15	October 3, 2026	CSV
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2013	60	—	October 3, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: bachelors-attainment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

026 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Bachelor's or Higher Attainment: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct	Empty
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	90	0
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	90	0
Adults 25+ who completed a bachelor's degree or higher (%)`bachelors_attainment`Headline	The headline figure: Adults 25+ who completed a bachelor's degree or higher (%).	Number · up to 15 decimals	1.1349Zimbabwe52.7169United Arab Emiratesmiddle 19.8568	90	0
Female`female`Women	The same measure, for women.	Number · up to 15 decimals	0.871Zimbabwe56.629United Arab Emiratesmiddle 20.137	90	0
Male`male`Men	The same measure, for men.	Number · up to 15 decimals	1.4553Zimbabwe49.5969United Arab Emiratesmiddle 19.2261	88	2
Source (UIS footnote)`data_source`Label	UIS’s own footnote for this reading: the labour force survey or census behind it, and any qualifier — such as a reading that covers ages 25 to 74 rather than all adults, or a survey in which many people’s education went unrecorded.	Text	—	88	0

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the better result.

03188 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, by continent.
	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Africa	10	12	17	11	18	20	22	9	15	22	17
Americas	12	11	14	15	13	15	18	16	7	15	13
Asia	20	20	18	24	29	27	29	23	23	31	24
Europe	17	36	35	34	33	35	36	35	35	34	31
Oceania	1	4	4	5	3	4	8	6	4	3	5
All	60	83	88	89	96	101	113	89	84	105	90

Who joined and who left

2023
+ Aruba+ Angola+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Azerbaijan+ DR Congo+ Egypt+ Gambia+ Grenada+ Honduras+ Kyrgyzstan+ Cambodia+ Kiribati+ Namibia+ Nauru+ El Salvador+ Seychelles+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Vanuatu+ Zambia− Afghanistan− Andorra− Argentina− Benin− Bahamas− Belize− Bhutan− Comoros− Ethiopia− Guinea-Bissau− Jamaica− Kenya− Mexico− North Macedonia− Mali− Mozambique− Malaysia− Niger− Oman− Philippines− Papua New Guinea− Palestine− Sudan− Singapore− San Marino− Somalia− Suriname− Eswatini− Togo− Thailand− Turkmenistan− Timor-Leste− Trinidad and Tobago− Tanzania− Uzbekistan− Samoa
2022
+ Andorra+ Argentina+ Bahrain+ Bahamas+ Belize+ Bolivia+ Bhutan+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Guinea-Bissau+ Guatemala+ Indonesia+ India+ Iceland+ Jamaica+ Laos+ Mexico+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Oman+ Panama+ Papua New Guinea+ Puerto Rico+ Qatar+ Sudan+ Senegal+ San Marino+ Somalia+ Suriname+ Eswatini+ Togo+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan+ Timor-Leste+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tanzania+ Samoa− Antigua and Barbuda− Austria− Côte d’Ivoire− Dominica− Ecuador− Egypt− Fiji− United Kingdom− Grenada− Iraq− Cambodia− Madagascar− Marshall Islands− Pakistan− Poland− Russia− Tonga− Uganda
2021
+ United Arab Emirates+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Bangladesh+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Dominica+ Egypt+ Ethiopia+ Fiji+ Ghana+ Iraq+ Latvia+ Madagascar+ Marshall Islands+ Nigeria+ Norway+ Pakistan+ Russia+ Tonga+ Türkiye+ Uganda+ Uzbekistan+ Zimbabwe− Bahrain− Belize− Bolivia− China− Cook Islands− Colombia− Costa Rica− Curaçao− Gambia− Indonesia− India− Iceland− Japan− Kiribati− Saint Lucia− Mexico− Mali− Montenegro− Mozambique− Montserrat− Malawi− New Zealand− Oman− Palau− Puerto Rico− Paraguay− El Salvador− San Marino− Vanuatu
2020
+ Afghanistan+ Bahrain+ China+ Costa Rica+ Curaçao+ Ecuador+ Estonia+ United Kingdom+ Gambia+ Japan+ Saint Lucia+ Mexico+ Mozambique+ Montserrat+ Malawi+ New Zealand+ Oman+ Palau+ Puerto Rico+ San Marino− United Arab Emirates− Azerbaijan− Benin− Burkina Faso− Bangladesh− Bahamas− Belarus− Central African Republic− Cuba− Dominican Republic− Algeria− Ethiopia− Guatemala− Guyana− Honduras− Lebanon− Liberia− Latvia− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Myanmar− Malaysia− New Caledonia− Niger− Nigeria− Norway− Pakistan− Panama− Senegal− Sierra Leone− São Tomé and Príncipe− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Togo− Thailand− Turkmenistan− Tonga− Tunisia− Uganda− Ukraine− Uruguay− Uzbekistan− Samoa− Zimbabwe
2019
+ Benin+ Bahamas+ Belarus+ Bolivia+ Botswana+ Central African Republic+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Dominican Republic+ Algeria+ Ethiopia+ Guatemala+ Iran+ Kenya+ Cambodia+ Liberia+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Malaysia+ New Caledonia+ Panama+ Philippines+ El Salvador+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Togo+ Turkmenistan+ Uganda+ Ukraine+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu+ Samoa+ Zimbabwe− Antigua and Barbuda− Bahrain− Brazil− Cameroon− DR Congo− Costa Rica− Guinea− Gambia− Guinea-Bissau− Iraq− Kazakhstan− Kyrgyzstan− Kuwait− Lesotho− Madagascar− Mexico− Papua New Guinea− San Marino− Suriname− Tanzania− Zambia
2018
+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Burkina Faso+ Belize+ Cameroon+ DR Congo+ Colombia+ Costa Rica+ Guinea+ Gambia+ Guinea-Bissau+ Grenada+ Guyana+ India+ Iraq+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Kiribati+ Lebanon+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Latvia+ Madagascar+ Nigeria+ Papua New Guinea+ Paraguay+ San Marino+ Suriname+ Chad+ Thailand+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Tanzania+ Uzbekistan− Afghanistan− Burundi− Benin− Bolivia− Bhutan− Djibouti− Ecuador− Fiji− United Kingdom− Ghana− Haiti− Cambodia− Laos− Liberia− Maldives− Mozambique− Malawi− Nepal− Philippines− Puerto Rico− Qatar− El Salvador− Togo− Tajikistan− Tuvalu− Uganda− Venezuela− Zimbabwe
2017
+ Afghanistan+ Burundi+ Benin+ Bolivia+ Brunei+ Bhutan+ Djibouti+ Fiji+ United Kingdom+ Ghana+ Haiti+ Jordan+ Cambodia+ Kuwait+ Laos+ Myanmar+ Mozambique+ Malawi+ Niger+ Nepal+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ Rwanda+ Saudi Arabia+ Sierra Leone+ Togo+ Zambia+ Zimbabwe− Andorra− Bermuda− Côte d’Ivoire− DR Congo− Cook Islands− Colombia− Costa Rica− Dominican Republic− Ethiopia− Guinea− India− Iran− Latvia− Malaysia− Nigeria− New Zealand− Paraguay− Thailand− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Uzbekistan
2016
+ United Arab Emirates+ Armenia+ Bahrain+ Bermuda+ Brazil+ Côte d’Ivoire+ DR Congo+ Cook Islands+ Dominican Republic+ Ethiopia+ Guinea+ India+ Iran+ Liberia+ Maldives+ Malaysia+ Nigeria+ Qatar+ El Salvador+ Thailand+ Tajikistan+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tuvalu+ Uganda− Angola− Bolivia− Republic of the Congo− Cabo Verde− Cayman Islands− Ghana− Gambia− Guatemala− Kazakhstan− Kiribati− Kuwait− Laos− Luxembourg− Madagascar− Mozambique− Mauritania− Malawi− Oman− Rwanda− Solomon Islands− Turkmenistan− Tanzania− Zambia− Zimbabwe

Not in this dataset · 37 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
databrowser.uis.unesco.org
2 · Their file
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment 2023
indicators
3 · Read by this site
October 3, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
11 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as bachelors-attainment-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/bachelors-attainment

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (EA.6T8.AG25T99), with UIS's own footnote on every reading. Years reporting fewer than 50 countries are left out. Female and male rates are stored beside the headline.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked October 3, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
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Say what you changed
Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Bachelor's or Higher Attainment, 2013–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/bachelors-attainment

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Bachelor's or Higher Attainment by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Education & Knowledge
Near neighbours
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
- Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024

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