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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2015

Figures for 2015, 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, 2015 covers 94 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 75.00; Andorra is lowest, at 0.00. The middle country reads 33.41. Against 2014, 48 values changed (25 up, 23 down), 46 countries joined, 3 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2015

HighestSint Maarten

75.00

LowestAndorra

0.00

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, 2015, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 94 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2015: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean75.00
BeninBENWestern Africa54.88
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa53.55
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa53.28
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe52.78
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia49.17
PanamaPANCentral America48.95
GrenadaGRDCaribbean47.67
OmanOMNWestern Asia47.60
SudanSDNNorthern Africa47.18
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa46.57
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa45.49
PalestinePSEWestern Asia45.46
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe45.14
PolandPOLEastern Europe43.63
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia42.79
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe42.56
BahrainBHRWestern Asia42.34
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia42.19
IndiaINDSouthern Asia42.07
BelizeBLZCentral America41.83
RomaniaROUEastern Europe41.73
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean41.58
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa41.33
CyprusCYPWestern Asia41.01

02In 2015

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Sint Maarten75.00
  2. Benin54.88
  3. Algeria53.55
  4. Tunisia53.28
  5. Albania52.78

Lowest

  1. Andorra0.00
  2. Burkina Faso11.88
  3. Cambodia16.68
  4. Niger17.65
  5. Chile18.21

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 33.41. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032014 → 2015

Since 2014

  • +46 / −3countries joined / left
  • 48values changed, of 48 in both
  • 25 · 23rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Albania+ Andorra+ Armenia+ Azerbaijan+ Bahrain+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Belarus+ Belize+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Costa Rica+ Germany+ Dominican Republic+ Algeria+ Eritrea+ Ghana+ Grenada+ Honduras+ Iran+ Kyrgyzstan+ Cambodia+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Lesotho+ Macau+ Morocco+ Mozambique+ Malaysia+ Niger+ Oman+ Philippines+ North Korea+ Palestine+ Saudi Arabia+ Sudan+ El Salvador+ Serbia+ Sweden+ Sint Maarten+ Seychelles+ Thailand+ Tunisia+ Ukraine+ Vietnam+ Zimbabwe− Greece− Netherlands− Türkiye

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 94 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) (2015). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2015 [data set], describing 2015. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2015

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