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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023

Figures for 2023, 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, 2023 covers 96 countries. Oman is highest, at 55.965; Bermuda is lowest, at 8.333. The middle country reads 35.300. Against 2022, 79 values changed (43 up, 36 down), 17 countries joined, 9 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2023

HighestOman

55.965

LowestBermuda

8.333

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, 2023, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 96 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
OmanOMNWestern Asia55.965
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa53.785
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa52.456
QatarQATWestern Asia52.432
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe51.941
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa49.166
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean48.705
PalestinePSEWestern Asia48.438
ArgentinaARGSouth America46.755
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe45.975
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe45.908
BahrainBHRWestern Asia45.750
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia45.715
JordanJORWestern Asia44.625
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia44.428
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe44.323
IndiaINDSouthern Asia44.132
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia43.978
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa43.701
IcelandISLNorthern Europe43.291
BelizeBLZCentral America43.066
CubaCUBCaribbean42.645
New ZealandNZLAustralia and New Zealand42.543
RomaniaROUEastern Europe42.118
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia41.840

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Oman55.965
  2. Tunisia53.785
  3. Algeria52.456
  4. Qatar52.432
  5. North Macedonia51.941

Lowest

  1. Bermuda8.333
  2. Turks and Caicos Islandsshared16.667
  3. Andorrashared16.667
  4. Chile20.564
  5. Ghana22.188

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 35.300. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

  • +17 / −9countries joined / left
  • 79values changed, of 79 in both
  • 43 · 36rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bulgaria+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Colombia+ Cuba+ Denmark+ United Kingdom+ Saint Lucia+ Mauritius+ Nicaragua+ Oman+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Ukraine+ United States− Benin− Burkina Faso− Greece− Ireland− Marshall Islands− Namibia− Panama− Saudi Arabia− Syria

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 95 distinct values among 96

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 2 countries share 16.667. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 96 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) (2023). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2023

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