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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2022

Figures for 2022, 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, 2022 covers 88 countries. British Virgin Islands is highest, at 64.7577; Ghana is lowest, at 19.6774. The middle country reads 35.5025. Against 2021, 77 values changed (50 up, 27 down), 11 countries joined, 14 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2022

HighestBritish Virgin Islands

64.7577

LowestGhana

19.6774

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, 2022, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 88 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2022: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean64.7577
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa58.9546
SyriaSYRWestern Asia56.9991
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa52.8211
TürkiyeTURWestern Asia51.0150
PalestinePSEWestern Asia49.7584
ArgentinaARGSouth America48.4767
QatarQATWestern Asia48.4751
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe48.2077
UruguayURYSouth America47.0535
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa46.9113
BelizeBLZCentral America46.5306
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe46.4880
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe46.3371
JordanJORWestern Asia45.5058
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia45.4530
IndiaINDSouthern Asia45.4272
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe44.7847
BahrainBHRWestern Asia44.1696
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand43.2742
RomaniaROUEastern Europe43.0040
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia42.9703
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa42.6382
FranceFRAWestern Europe42.5540
Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean42.5023

02In 2022

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. British Virgin Islands64.7577
  2. Algeria58.9546
  3. Syria56.9991
  4. Tunisia52.8211
  5. Türkiye51.0150

Lowest

  1. Ghana19.6774
  2. Chile20.9350
  3. Burkina Faso20.9754
  4. Belarus23.9800
  5. Switzerland25.2161

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 35.5025. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +11 / −14countries joined / left
  • 77values changed, of 77 in both
  • 50 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Brazil+ Ecuador+ Egypt+ Croatia+ Madagascar+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Namibia+ Rwanda+ Syria+ Thailand− Bulgaria− Colombia− Cuba− Denmark− United Kingdom− Iran− Mauritius− Oman− Philippines− Turks and Caicos Islands− Ukraine− United States− Uzbekistan− Samoa

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 88 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) (2022). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2022

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