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Report year 2008Data year 2008
Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
26 editions (1999–2024), 60 to 115 countries. The share of a country’s own tertiary enrolment made up of students who came from abroad — how far a country’s universities pull people across borders, which is why it sits in Mobility & Connectivity rather than education alone. Female and male rates are stored beside the headline figure. ⚠ INBOUND, NOT OUTBOUND. This says who comes in, not who leaves; UIS publishes an outbound ratio too and it is a different question, not imported here. ⚠ READ THE TOP OF THE TABLE WITH CARE: the rate is a share of a country’s OWN tertiary system, so a very small system fills up from abroad easily — San Marino leads 2024 at 87%, which says more about the size of its universities than about its pull. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary 2008 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Cite as: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
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UIS release 20260507-91260335. Read from the UIS API at full precision, as published — nothing is rounded here. ⚠ Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so anything derived from it carries the same ShareAlike obligation. UIS publishes no rank, so none is stored and none is derived here.
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| Country | ISO Code | Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 81.625 | 84.09 | 80.41 |
| Macau | MAC | 49.782 | 40.04 | 59.44 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 43.806 | — | — |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 37.939 | — | — |
| Qatar | QAT | 36.222 | 33.01 | 41.86 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 27.935 | 13.23 | 42.08 |
| Singapore | SGP | 20.339 | 18.70 | 21.92 |
| Austria | AUT | 15.969 | — | — |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 14.672 | 12.24 | 17.93 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 14.125 | 13.88 | 14.36 |
| France | FRA | 11.247 | 10.30 | 12.41 |
| Jordan | JOR | 10.456 | 6.67 | 14.46 |
| Namibia | NAM | 10.169 | — | — |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 9.429 | 9.61 | 9.19 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 9.080 | — | — |
| Norway | NOR | 7.572 | 7.15 | 8.22 |
| Belgium | BEL | 7.430 | 7.90 | 6.86 |
| Ireland | IRL | 7.167 | 9.50 | 4.41 |
| Czechia | CZE | 7.109 | 6.60 | 7.75 |
| Benin | BEN | 6.495 | 9.47 | 5.40 |
| Canada | CAN | 6.468 | 5.07 | 8.30 |
| Sweden | SWE | 5.568 | 3.78 | 8.28 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 5.529 | 4.21 | 6.25 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 4.990 | 5.60 | 4.34 |
| Serbia | SRB | 4.739 | — | — |
| Malta | MLT | 4.614 | 4.52 | 4.74 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 4.479 | 3.10 | 6.23 |
| Iceland | ISL | 4.329 | 4.13 | 4.68 |
| Hungary | HUN | 3.737 | 3.20 | 4.48 |
| Finland | FIN | 3.650 | 2.90 | 4.53 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 3.504 | 2.48 | 4.78 |
| Italy | ITA | 3.392 | 3.08 | 3.81 |
| Brunei | BRN | 3.389 | 2.69 | 4.72 |
| Croatia | HRV | 3.298 | — | — |
| Armenia | ARM | 3.287 | 2.57 | 4.25 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 3.031 | — | — |
| Cuba | CUB | 3.008 | — | — |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 2.914 | 2.98 | 2.85 |
| Denmark | DNK | 2.769 | 2.60 | 3.01 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 2.619 | 1.87 | 3.53 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 2.265 | 1.62 | 3.24 |
| Oman | OMN | 2.192 | — | — |
| Spain | ESP | 2.118 | 2.16 | 2.07 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 2.043 | 1.46 | 2.71 |
| Morocco | MAR | 1.883 | — | — |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.717 | 0.93 | 2.42 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 1.584 | 2.24 | 1.25 |
| Estonia | EST | 1.514 | 1.32 | 1.83 |
| Chile | CHL | 1.510 | 1.51 | 1.51 |
| Russia | RUS | 1.448 | — | — |
| Ghana | GHA | 1.447 | — | — |
| Lithuania | LTU | 1.443 | 1.28 | 1.68 |
| Romania | ROU | 1.311 | 1.04 | 1.66 |
| South Korea | KOR | 1.258 | 1.60 | 1.05 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 1.179 | 1.19 | 1.16 |
| Latvia | LVA | 1.155 | — | — |
| Ukraine | UKR | 1.144 | — | — |
| Moldova | MDA | 1.123 | — | — |
| Belarus | BLR | 1.085 | — | — |
| Guinea | GIN | 0.932 | — | — |
| Türkiye | TUR | 0.798 | 0.61 | 0.94 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 0.797 | 0.59 | 1.12 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 0.695 | — | — |
| Poland | POL | 0.691 | 0.60 | 0.82 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 0.628 | 0.56 | 0.71 |
| Georgia | GEO | 0.478 | — | — |
| Thailand | THA | 0.449 | 0.38 | 0.53 |
| Chad | TCD | 0.421 | — | — |
| Laos | LAO | 0.371 | — | — |
| DR Congo | COD | 0.296 | 0.32 | 0.29 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 0.203 | — | — |
| China | CHN | 0.191 | 0.18 | 0.20 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 0.122 | — | — |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 0.104 | — | — |
| Philippines | PHL | 0.101 | — | — |
| Venezuela | VEN | 0.091 | — | — |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 0.081 | — | — |
| Iran | IRN | 0.036 | 0.03 | 0.04 |
| Anguilla | AIA | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Palestine | PSE | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 0.000 | 0.00 | 0.00 |