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Report year 2012Data year 2012
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 2012 — 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burundi | BDI | 100.000 | 100.000 | 100.000 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 80.625 | 80.120 | 80.892 |
| Qatar | QAT | 41.434 | 37.103 | 49.526 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 40.559 | 39.628 | 41.572 |
| Sint Maarten | SXM | 38.286 | 25.385 | 75.556 |
| Macau | MAC | 31.533 | 31.406 | 31.697 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 23.461 | 14.278 | 33.841 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 19.311 | — | — |
| Singapore | SGP | 19.165 | 17.594 | 20.728 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 17.136 | 15.101 | 19.756 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 16.496 | 16.480 | 16.511 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 14.375 | 13.357 | 14.749 |
| Austria | AUT | 14.041 | — | — |
| Lebanon | LBN | 12.816 | 12.774 | 12.866 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | 11.998 | 12.621 | 10.584 |
| France | FRA | 11.819 | 11.226 | 12.539 |
| Senegal | SEN | 11.608 | 11.984 | 11.387 |
| Jordan | JOR | 9.109 | — | — |
| Belgium | BEL | 8.983 | 8.945 | 9.031 |
| Canada | CAN | 8.980 | 7.032 | 11.474 |
| Czechia | CZE | 8.962 | 8.284 | 9.871 |
| Denmark | DNK | 8.131 | 7.346 | 9.189 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 7.820 | 8.514 | 7.096 |
| Norway | NOR | 7.746 | 7.217 | 8.544 |
| Namibia | NAM | 7.576 | 5.891 | 10.273 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 7.246 | 7.874 | 6.580 |
| Bermuda | BMU | 6.729 | 6.714 | 6.760 |
| Sweden | SWE | 6.315 | 4.563 | 8.913 |
| Iceland | ISL | 6.210 | 4.770 | 8.605 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 5.880 | 5.425 | 6.446 |
| Ireland | IRL | 5.762 | — | — |
| Finland | FIN | 5.709 | 4.315 | 7.323 |
| Niger | NER | 5.426 | 4.985 | 5.597 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 5.220 | 3.380 | 7.565 |
| Malta | MLT | 4.843 | 4.730 | 4.988 |
| Hungary | HUN | 4.601 | 4.076 | 5.257 |
| Cuba | CUB | 4.522 | — | — |
| Greece | GRC | 4.371 | 4.655 | 4.097 |
| Brunei | BRN | 4.247 | 3.236 | 5.888 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 4.194 | 3.109 | 5.694 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 4.095 | 3.618 | 4.799 |
| Italy | ITA | 4.036 | 4.111 | 3.934 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 3.935 | 2.616 | 5.523 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 3.861 | 3.315 | 4.392 |
| Serbia | SRB | 3.855 | 3.300 | 4.556 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 3.764 | 2.807 | 4.954 |
| Armenia | ARM | 3.434 | 2.858 | 4.166 |
| Ghana | GHA | 3.092 | — | — |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 2.961 | 2.733 | 3.071 |
| Spain | ESP | 2.836 | 2.841 | 2.831 |
| Latvia | LVA | 2.799 | 2.211 | 3.666 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 2.504 | 1.208 | 3.802 |
| Romania | ROU | 2.441 | 1.902 | 3.083 |
| Estonia | EST | 2.327 | 1.988 | 2.818 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 2.301 | 1.635 | 3.170 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 2.266 | 2.277 | 2.252 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 2.218 | 1.675 | 3.078 |
| Russia | RUS | 2.175 | — | — |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 2.167 | 1.473 | 2.959 |
| Belarus | BLR | 2.063 | — | — |
| Ukraine | UKR | 1.824 | — | — |
| Lithuania | LTU | 1.792 | 1.775 | 1.817 |
| South Korea | KOR | 1.772 | 2.332 | 1.401 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.737 | 0.952 | 2.459 |
| Georgia | GEO | 1.680 | — | — |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 1.600 | 1.822 | 1.487 |
| Moldova | MDA | 1.551 | 0.674 | 2.666 |
| Aruba | ABW | 1.374 | 1.445 | 1.275 |
| Albania | ALB | 1.300 | 0.912 | 1.784 |
| Israel | ISR | 1.188 | 1.127 | 1.266 |
| Poland | POL | 1.172 | 0.985 | 1.451 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 1.131 | — | — |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 1.127 | 1.124 | 1.131 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 1.090 | — | — |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 0.977 | 1.385 | 0.588 |
| Gambia | GMB | 0.937 | 2.125 | 0.426 |
| Guinea | GIN | 0.919 | — | — |
| Honduras | HND | 0.904 | 0.623 | 1.280 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 0.886 | 0.667 | 1.069 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.857 | 0.956 | 0.819 |
| Thailand | THA | 0.836 | — | — |
| Rwanda | RWA | 0.764 | — | — |
| Mongolia | MNG | 0.609 | 0.455 | 0.827 |
| Algeria | DZA | 0.596 | — | — |
| Ecuador | ECU | 0.582 | 0.562 | 0.608 |
| Croatia | HRV | 0.535 | 0.460 | 0.634 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 0.532 | — | — |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.498 | 0.502 | 0.493 |
| Laos | LAO | 0.482 | 0.274 | 0.652 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 0.405 | 0.326 | 0.495 |
| Guyana | GUY | 0.384 | — | — |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 0.374 | — | — |
| Chile | CHL | 0.309 | 0.277 | 0.345 |
| China | CHN | 0.273 | 0.245 | 0.301 |
| Philippines | PHL | 0.237 | 0.177 | 0.308 |
| Brazil | BRA | 0.210 | 0.165 | 0.271 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 0.185 | — | — |
| Vietnam | VNM | 0.177 | 0.187 | 0.173 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 0.138 | — | — |
| Indonesia | IDN | 0.116 | — | — |
| Iran | IRN | 0.102 | 0.095 | 0.110 |
| India | IND | 0.099 | 0.087 | 0.109 |
| Comoros | COM | 0.028 | 0.063 | 0.000 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 0.016 | 0.011 | 0.022 |
| Palestine | PSE | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |