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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011

Figures for 2011, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of tertiary graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who are women. Its point of balance is 50%, where women and men graduate from these programmes in equal numbers; above 50% means women outnumber men.

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011 covers 60 countries. Antigua and Barbuda is highest, at 75.00; Aruba is lowest, at 14.89. The middle country reads 34.09. Against 2010, 46 values changed (25 up, 21 down), 14 countries joined, 16 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2011

HighestAntigua and Barbuda

75.00

LowestAruba

14.89

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 60 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Antigua and BarbudaATGCaribbean75.00
MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia66.23
PanamaPANCentral America56.24
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia50.53
GambiaGMBWestern Africa49.79
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa49.19
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe48.06
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe44.44
PalestinePSEWestern Asia44.39
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia43.52
LebanonLBNWestern Asia43.26
RomaniaROUEastern Europe43.17
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia42.14
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe42.07
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia42.02
BulgariaBGREastern Europe40.63
BarbadosBRBCaribbean40.50
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe40.49
ItalyITASouthern Europe40.28
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia40.01
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe39.63
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe39.19
BermudaBMUNorthern America39.13
PolandPOLEastern Europe38.77
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe37.92

02In 2011

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Antigua and Barbuda75.00
  2. Myanmar66.23
  3. Panama56.24
  4. Brunei50.53
  5. Gambia49.79

Lowest

  1. Aruba14.89
  2. Burkina Faso15.50
  3. Macau15.84
  4. Laos18.53
  5. Benin19.84

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 34.09. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032010 → 2011

Since 2010

  • +14 / −16countries joined / left
  • 46values changed, of 46 in both
  • 25 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Australia+ Benin+ Burkina Faso+ Barbados+ Colombia+ Gambia+ Iran+ Italy+ South Korea+ Laos+ Myanmar+ Puerto Rico+ Seychelles− Argentina− Armenia− Burundi− Chile− Ethiopia− Georgia− Croatia− Ireland− Iceland− Morocco− Madagascar− Netherlands− Norway− Oman− Uruguay− Vietnam

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 60 countries has every column.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2011). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011 [data set], describing 2011. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2011

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