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Report year 2009Data year 2009
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 2009 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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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 | 74.4032 | 71.967 | 75.534 |
| Grenada | GRD | 63.3129 | — | — |
| Macau | MAC | 49.8455 | 41.043 | 58.689 |
| Qatar | QAT | 36.5339 | 33.088 | 42.702 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 31.7756 | 14.754 | 46.768 |
| Singapore | SGP | 22.7800 | 21.535 | 24.005 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 20.3964 | — | — |
| Austria | AUT | 17.2652 | — | — |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 15.2768 | 12.647 | 18.759 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 14.9245 | 14.675 | 15.171 |
| France | FRA | 11.4662 | 10.559 | 12.585 |
| Barbados | BRB | 10.4999 | 9.803 | 12.027 |
| Jordan | JOR | 10.3728 | 6.234 | 14.735 |
| Belgium | BEL | 7.9844 | 8.221 | 7.697 |
| Norway | NOR | 7.9838 | 7.408 | 8.887 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 7.7146 | — | — |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 7.5793 | 7.392 | 7.828 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 7.3677 | — | — |
| Czechia | CZE | 7.3466 | 6.691 | 8.198 |
| Ireland | IRL | 7.0845 | 6.924 | 7.272 |
| Canada | CAN | 6.6033 | 5.181 | 8.487 |
| Niger | NER | 6.4157 | 1.856 | 8.276 |
| Sweden | SWE | 6.3988 | 4.390 | 9.430 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 5.7784 | 3.579 | 8.532 |
| Denmark | DNK | 5.3638 | 4.789 | 6.165 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 5.1245 | — | — |
| Aruba | ABW | 4.8725 | 7.572 | 1.093 |
| Brunei | BRN | 4.8305 | 3.770 | 6.603 |
| Iceland | ISL | 4.6279 | 4.331 | 5.162 |
| Serbia | SRB | 4.4113 | — | — |
| Malta | MLT | 4.3373 | — | — |
| Finland | FIN | 4.2455 | 3.202 | 5.471 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 3.8276 | 4.463 | 3.144 |
| Hungary | HUN | 3.6507 | 3.178 | 4.272 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 3.6359 | 3.813 | 3.458 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 3.5035 | 1.378 | 5.597 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 3.4360 | 2.314 | 4.840 |
| Armenia | ARM | 3.3927 | 2.632 | 4.393 |
| Italy | ITA | 3.2745 | 3.331 | 3.198 |
| Cuba | CUB | 3.1889 | — | — |
| Spain | ESP | 2.6941 | 2.728 | 2.655 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 2.6856 | 1.960 | 3.796 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 2.6269 | 1.866 | 3.545 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 2.1948 | 1.694 | 2.759 |
| Oman | OMN | 1.8992 | 1.364 | 2.429 |
| Morocco | MAR | 1.8901 | — | — |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.8069 | 1.018 | 2.521 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 1.7755 | 1.787 | 1.759 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 1.6775 | 2.464 | 1.267 |
| Estonia | EST | 1.5892 | 0.571 | 3.244 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 1.5584 | — | — |
| South Korea | KOR | 1.5541 | 2.023 | 1.256 |
| Russia | RUS | 1.3900 | — | — |
| Lithuania | LTU | 1.3400 | 1.306 | 1.390 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 1.2785 | — | — |
| Latvia | LVA | 1.2659 | 1.005 | 1.723 |
| Belarus | BLR | 1.2419 | — | — |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 1.2322 | 1.240 | 1.228 |
| Moldova | MDA | 1.0811 | 0.481 | 1.886 |
| Romania | ROU | 0.9445 | 0.680 | 1.285 |
| Chile | CHL | 0.8567 | 0.803 | 0.912 |
| Poland | POL | 0.7896 | 0.698 | 0.915 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 0.7488 | 0.576 | 0.883 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 0.6818 | 0.562 | 0.866 |
| Thailand | THA | 0.6768 | 0.585 | 0.786 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 0.6514 | — | — |
| Laos | LAO | 0.6000 | 0.356 | 0.790 |
| Algeria | DZA | 0.5277 | — | — |
| El Salvador | SLV | 0.5242 | 0.499 | 0.554 |
| Georgia | GEO | 0.5240 | — | — |
| Guyana | GUY | 0.5194 | — | — |
| Croatia | HRV | 0.5012 | 0.501 | 0.502 |
| Brazil | BRA | 0.2668 | 0.235 | 0.308 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 0.2371 | 0.144 | 0.326 |
| China | CHN | 0.2089 | 0.192 | 0.226 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 0.1267 | — | — |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 0.1004 | — | — |
| North Korea | PRK | 0.0809 | — | — |
| Iran | IRN | 0.0433 | 0.038 | 0.049 |
| Nepal | NPL | 0.0328 | 0.045 | 0.025 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Comoros | COM | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Montserrat | MSR | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Palestine | PSE | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |