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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2012

Figures for 2012, 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, 2012 covers 61 countries. Brunei is highest, at 49.435; Macau is lowest, at 14.634. The middle country reads 33.333. Against 2011, 45 values changed (25 up, 20 down), 16 countries joined, 15 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2012

HighestBrunei

49.435

LowestMacau

14.634

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, 2012, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 61 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2012: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia49.435
CyprusCYPWestern Asia49.185
GambiaGMBWestern Africa45.657
ItalyITASouthern Europe45.346
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia45.344
PalestinePSEWestern Asia45.016
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa43.060
SudanSDNNorthern Africa42.413
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia42.147
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia42.109
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia41.304
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe41.053
PolandPOLEastern Europe40.693
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe40.678
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe40.176
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe39.935
HondurasHNDCentral America39.431
BulgariaBGREastern Europe39.425
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia39.379
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe38.651
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe38.553
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe38.230
Puerto RicoPRICaribbean37.959
DenmarkDNKNorthern Europe37.328
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe35.883

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Brunei49.435
  2. Cyprus49.185
  3. Gambia45.657
  4. Italy45.346
  5. Malaysia45.344

Lowest

  1. Macau14.634
  2. Laos17.619
  3. Burkina Faso18.866
  4. Mozambique19.239
  5. Aruba19.697

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 33.333. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

  • +16 / −15countries joined / left
  • 45values changed, of 45 in both
  • 25 · 20rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Cyprus32.909 → 49.185+16.276
  • Qatar25.080 → 31.014+5.934
  • Italy40.277 → 45.346+5.069
  • Aruba14.894 → 19.697+4.803
  • Guyana23.333 → 27.203+3.870

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Chile+ France+ Georgia+ Honduras+ Croatia+ Ireland+ Iceland+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Mozambique+ Norway+ Sudan+ Tunisia+ Ukraine+ Vietnam− Albania− Australia− Benin− Barbados− Switzerland− Costa Rica− Algeria− Lebanon− Mexico− Malta− Myanmar− Mongolia− Panama− Romania− Seychelles

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 60 distinct values among 61

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 33.333. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 61 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2012). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2012

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