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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2017

Figures for 2017, 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, 2017 covers 82 countries. Sint Maarten is highest, at 100.00; Maldives is lowest, at 10.56. The middle country reads 34.61. Against 2016, 67 values changed (35 up, 32 down), 14 countries joined, 24 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2017

HighestSint Maarten

100.00

LowestMaldives

10.56

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, 2017, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean100.00
AndorraANDSouthern Europe66.67
OmanOMNWestern Asia59.03
SamoaWSMPolynesia51.02
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe48.60
PeruPERSouth America47.81
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe47.38
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa45.32
PalestinePSEWestern Asia44.90
BahrainBHRWestern Asia44.28
UruguayURYSouth America43.96
IndiaINDSouthern Asia43.94
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia43.75
PolandPOLEastern Europe43.36
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe42.91
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa42.76
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa42.50
HondurasHNDCentral America41.88
QatarQATWestern Asia41.86
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia41.66
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia41.46
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe40.09
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia40.07
Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean39.99
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe39.74

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Sint Maarten100.00
  2. Andorra66.67
  3. Oman59.03
  4. Samoa51.02
  5. Albania48.60

Lowest

  1. Maldives10.56
  2. Burkina Faso15.10
  3. Burundi15.52
  4. Chile18.83
  5. Bangladesh19.78

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 34.61. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +14 / −24countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 68 in both
  • 35 · 32rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Australia+ Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo+ Grenada+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Mauritius+ Netherlands+ Rwanda+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Sint Maarten+ Uruguay+ Samoa− Aruba− Austria− Brunei− Canada− DR Congo− Cuba− Algeria− Ecuador− Egypt− Eritrea− France− United Kingdom− Ireland− Italy− Luxembourg− Mauritania− Panama− Puerto Rico− Romania− Syria− Thailand− Tunisia− United States− Vietnam

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

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  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 82 countries has every column.

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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) (2017). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2017

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