Data for 2003

Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003

Name: Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2003, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003 covers 74 countries on 3 measures. Macau is highest, at 66.767; 2 countries share the lowest reading, 0.000. The middle country reads 1.954. Against 2002, 55 values changed (28 up, 27 down), 18 countries joined, 10 left.

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Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary · Data for 2003

HighestMacau

66.767

Lowest2 countries share it

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

74countries
3measures per country
2003the year it describes
73distinct values16 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	66.767	46.97	78.15
2	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	33.333	16.67	—
3	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	28.908	13.22	44.28
4	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	20.866	17.13	30.85
5	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	17.663	17.88	17.49
6	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	11.176	—	—
7	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	11.156	9.64	13.07
8	France`FRA`Western Europe	10.455	9.25	11.93
9	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	10.131	—	—
10	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	8.982	8.38	9.81
11	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	8.704	—	—
12	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	8.495	—	—
13	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	8.476	7.90	9.15
14	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	7.830	5.85	10.75
15	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	7.295	—	—
16	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	6.976	3.71	12.29
17	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	6.682	5.77	7.76
18	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	5.619	5.07	6.31
19	Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	5.443	1.21	11.62
20	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	5.207	3.70	7.45
21	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	4.572	4.63	4.49
22	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	4.346	4.46	4.14
23	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	4.189	—	—
24	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	4.073	—	—
25	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	3.898	4.12	3.67
26	Gabon`GAB`Middle Africa	3.692	3.60	3.74
27	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	3.602	4.17	3.02
28	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	3.481	2.74	4.31
29	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	3.131	2.55	3.89
30	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	2.914	3.07	2.74
31	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	2.524	2.19	2.90
32	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	2.330	2.00	2.71
33	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	2.218	—	—
34	Moldova`MDA`Eastern Europe	2.118	1.31	3.16
35	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	2.061	1.53	2.78
36	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	2.013	—	—
37	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	2.009	—	—
38	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	1.899	1.44	2.62
39	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	1.889	1.89	1.89
40	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	1.819	1.67	1.97
41	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	1.801	1.10	2.11
42	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	1.713	—	—
43	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	1.522	0.61	2.23
44	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	1.511	1.22	1.85
45	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	1.295	0.77	1.73
46	Tanzania`TZA`Eastern Africa	1.275	0.96	1.41
47	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	1.050	0.39	2.14
48	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	1.044	0.75	1.37
49	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	0.949	0.84	1.09
50	Chile`CHL`South America	0.919	—	—
51	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	0.832	—	—
52	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	0.798	—	—
53	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	0.791	—	—
54	Honduras`HND`Central America	0.683	0.41	1.07
55	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	0.663	0.60	0.71
56	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	0.451	0.47	0.43
57	Republic of the Congo`COG`Middle Africa	0.413	—	—
58	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	0.411	0.23	0.68
59	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	0.384	0.36	0.42
60	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	0.338	0.10	0.47
61	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	0.278	—	—
62	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	0.248	0.25	0.24
63	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	0.243	0.31	0.20
64	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	0.207	—	—
65	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	0.195	—	—
66	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	0.194	0.12	0.32
67	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	0.126	0.05	0.18
68	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	0.097	—	—
69	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	0.085	0.07	0.10
70	India`IND`Southern Asia	0.069	—	—
71	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	0.044	—	—
72	Brazil`BRA`South America	0.031	—	—
=73	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	0.000	0.00	0.00
=73	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	0.000	0.00	0.00

02In 2003

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

1Macau66.767
2Anguilla33.333
3Cyprus28.908
4Qatar20.866
5Switzerland17.663

Lowest

73Maldivesshared0.000
73Saint Kitts and Nevisshared0.000
72Brazil0.031
71Bangladesh0.044
70India0.069

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1.954. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestMacau46.97
Lowest2 share it
Middle country: 1.67
Male
HighestMacau78.15
Lowest2 share it
Middle country: 2.72

032002 → 2003

Since 2002

What changed between 2002 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+18 / −10countries joined / left
55values changed, of 56 in both
28 · 27rose · fell
1unchanged

Rose most

Cyprus21.957 → 28.908+6.950
Macau64.121 → 66.767+2.646
France8.153 → 10.455+2.303
Croatia0.625 → 2.330+1.705
Denmark7.380 → 8.982+1.602

Fell most

Lebanon10.623 → 8.476−2.147
Tajikistan3.587 → 1.801−1.786
Mauritania3.793 → 2.013−1.780
Latvia2.951 → 2.009−0.942
Moldova2.700 → 2.118−0.583

+ Aruba

+ Anguilla

+ Albania

+ Bahrain

+ Republic of the Congo

+ Egypt

+ Gabon

+ Hong Kong

+ Honduras

+ Iran

+ Jordan

+ Lesotho

+ Morocco

+ Maldives

+ Mongolia

+ Pakistan

+ Saudi Arabia

+ Tanzania

− Burundi

− Canada

− Djibouti

− Cambodia

− Madagascar

− Mexico

− Eswatini

− Thailand

− Trinidad and Tobago

− Venezuela

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

73 distinct values among 74
Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 2 countries share 0.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.
The position is ours
UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.
47 empty cells
An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2003). Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2003 [data set], describing 2003. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inbound-mobility/2003

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