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Report year 2019Data year 2019
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 2019 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Marino | SMR | 87.925 | 87.430 | 88.283 |
| Liechtenstein | LIE | 86.389 | 89.254 | 84.722 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 72.782 | — | — |
| Macau | MAC | 52.487 | 54.473 | 49.913 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 48.648 | 47.623 | 49.765 |
| Andorra | AND | 41.074 | 41.486 | 40.645 |
| Qatar | QAT | 35.294 | 30.556 | 46.607 |
| Australia | AUS | 28.375 | 23.849 | 34.285 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 26.060 | 15.386 | 38.207 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 20.769 | 17.441 | 25.601 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 18.677 | 17.808 | 19.825 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 18.354 | — | — |
| Switzerland | CHE | 17.799 | 17.726 | 17.871 |
| Austria | AUT | 17.641 | 17.804 | 17.455 |
| Canada | CAN | 16.221 | 13.476 | 19.675 |
| Czechia | CZE | 14.364 | 13.368 | 15.685 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 14.312 | 16.292 | 12.204 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 14.150 | 12.872 | 15.992 |
| Jordan | JOR | 12.906 | 8.991 | 17.433 |
| Hungary | HUN | 12.605 | 11.641 | 13.732 |
| Malta | MLT | 12.440 | 10.492 | 15.003 |
| Estonia | EST | 11.087 | 8.080 | 15.360 |
| Ireland | IRL | 10.715 | 10.668 | 10.766 |
| Denmark | DNK | 10.491 | 9.752 | 11.459 |
| Latvia | LVA | 10.429 | 6.322 | 15.708 |
| Germany | DEU | 10.109 | 9.739 | 10.458 |
| Belgium | BEL | 10.043 | 10.572 | 9.367 |
| Portugal | PRT | 9.711 | 9.431 | 10.038 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 9.588 | — | — |
| France | FRA | 9.175 | 8.428 | 10.067 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 9.041 | 8.480 | 9.844 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 8.976 | 6.119 | 12.466 |
| Iceland | ISL | 8.449 | 8.178 | 8.949 |
| Georgia | GEO | 8.112 | 5.583 | 10.670 |
| Finland | FIN | 8.053 | 6.780 | 9.504 |
| Senegal | SEN | 7.597 | 5.736 | 8.995 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 7.190 | 6.013 | 8.573 |
| Sweden | SWE | 7.152 | 5.889 | 9.054 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 7.116 | 6.237 | 8.350 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 6.727 | 3.708 | 10.403 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 6.673 | 6.611 | 6.757 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 5.992 | 4.733 | 7.644 |
| Samoa | WSM | 5.844 | 3.748 | 9.351 |
| Romania | ROU | 5.676 | 4.907 | 6.597 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 5.621 | 4.592 | 6.702 |
| Moldova | MDA | 5.580 | 4.085 | 7.500 |
| Armenia | ARM | 5.518 | 4.701 | 6.494 |
| Niger | NER | 5.407 | 4.589 | 5.907 |
| Japan | JPN | 5.238 | 4.899 | 5.551 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 5.190 | 3.957 | 6.792 |
| United States | USA | 5.189 | 4.106 | 6.622 |
| Russia | RUS | 4.965 | — | — |
| Belarus | BLR | 4.823 | 3.442 | 6.306 |
| Namibia | NAM | 4.684 | 3.686 | 6.703 |
| Serbia | SRB | 4.606 | 4.186 | 5.158 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 4.429 | 3.972 | 4.884 |
| Norway | NOR | 4.276 | 3.747 | 5.008 |
| Poland | POL | 3.857 | 3.290 | 4.691 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 3.724 | 2.043 | 5.184 |
| Spain | ESP | 3.698 | 3.590 | 3.823 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 3.638 | 3.072 | 4.120 |
| Argentina | ARG | 3.500 | 3.313 | 3.806 |
| Greece | GRC | 3.499 | 3.751 | 3.253 |
| Croatia | HRV | 3.492 | 3.366 | 3.660 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 3.472 | 2.640 | 4.696 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 3.455 | — | — |
| Brunei | BRN | 3.407 | 2.851 | 4.187 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 3.318 | 2.266 | 4.554 |
| South Korea | KOR | 3.256 | 4.278 | 2.491 |
| Benin | BEN | 3.149 | 3.287 | 3.085 |
| Cuba | CUB | 3.058 | 2.191 | 4.416 |
| Oman | OMN | 2.839 | 2.343 | 3.503 |
| Italy | ITA | 2.831 | 2.673 | 3.028 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 2.641 | 2.642 | 2.640 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 2.279 | 1.868 | 2.503 |
| Botswana | BWA | 2.260 | 2.064 | 2.544 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 2.227 | 1.820 | 2.653 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 1.987 | 1.469 | 2.456 |
| Morocco | MAR | 1.972 | 1.337 | 2.596 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.914 | 1.476 | 2.338 |
| Egypt | EGY | 1.696 | 1.060 | 2.325 |
| Albania | ALB | 1.614 | 0.564 | 3.166 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 1.539 | 1.382 | 1.766 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 1.452 | 0.744 | 1.873 |
| Ghana | GHA | 1.392 | 1.379 | 1.402 |
| Kenya | KEN | 1.294 | — | — |
| Honduras | HND | 0.825 | 0.671 | 1.033 |
| Chile | CHL | 0.819 | 0.820 | 0.819 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 0.788 | 0.806 | 0.768 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 0.745 | 1.006 | 0.563 |
| Mexico | MEX | 0.707 | — | — |
| Iran | IRN | 0.640 | 0.606 | 0.672 |
| Algeria | DZA | 0.524 | — | — |
| Laos | LAO | 0.471 | 0.294 | 0.669 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 0.469 | 0.267 | 0.795 |
| China | CHN | 0.428 | 0.374 | 0.486 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 0.371 | 0.321 | 0.429 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 0.369 | — | — |
| Philippines | PHL | 0.362 | 0.245 | 0.507 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 0.266 | — | — |
| Brazil | BRA | 0.245 | 0.189 | 0.320 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 0.229 | 0.218 | 0.242 |
| Colombia | COL | 0.219 | 0.203 | 0.237 |
| India | IND | 0.135 | 0.086 | 0.183 |
| Palestine | PSE | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 0.000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |