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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary

26 years, 1998–2023 · 117 countries · 3 measures

The outbound mobility ratio counts a country’s students enrolled at universities abroad, as a share of the students enrolled at home. It is the mirror of the inbound mobility rate: that one says who comes in, this one who leaves.

This site holds every year from 1998 to 2023, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023
Held
26 years · 3,226 rows
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

0126 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

1998bar height: countries covered, up to 1412023
Every year of Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023Newest117+19 −13September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2022111+13 −9September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2021107+4 −17September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2020120+10 −12September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2019122+9 −14September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2018127+9 −9September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2017127+8 −11September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2016130+6 −17September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2015141+18 −10September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2014133+17 −12September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2013128+11 −23September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012140+16 −14September 26, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2011138+16 −12September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2010134+14 −12September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2009132+14 −11September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2008129+17 −9September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2007121+12 −14September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2006123+9 −10September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2005124+10 −12September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2004126+13 −14September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2003127+17 −16September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2002126+15 −4September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2001115+13 −15September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2000117+12 −23September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 1999128+52 −7September 26, 2026CSV
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 199883—September 26, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: outbound-mobility-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2023DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—1170
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—1170
Outbound mobility ratio, tertiary (%)outbound_mobility_ratioHeadlineThe headline figure: Outbound mobility ratio, tertiary (% of tertiary enrolment at home).Number · up to 16 decimals0.3331Argentina1,724.1102Cook Islandsmiddle 5.27851170
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 15 decimals0.275Argentina172.853Luxembourgmiddle 4.7221161
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 16 decimals0.4342Argentina23,117.7480Cook Islandsmiddle 5.78881161

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03197 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, by continent.
201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023
Africa373231332826222021141818
Americas242123282119191716151819
Asia373640383837403837333234
Europe403738404142434242423941
Oceania221223354345
All140128133141130127127122120107111117

The newest 12 of 26 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2023
    + Angola+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Republic of the Congo+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Guatemala+ Laos+ Sri Lanka+ Nicaragua+ Netherlands+ Oman+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ Russia+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Ukraine− Benin− Colombia− Ireland− Iran− Marshall Islands− Mauritius− Namibia− Panama− Saudi Arabia− Suriname− Turks and Caicos Islands− Türkiye− Vietnam
  • 2022
    + Bangladesh+ Ecuador+ Egypt+ Indonesia+ Saint Lucia+ Madagascar+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Namibia+ Rwanda+ Sint Maarten+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Thailand− Cuba− Kuwait− Liechtenstein− Sri Lanka− Netherlands− Oman− Philippines− Ukraine− Uzbekistan
  • 2021
    + Cambodia+ Suriname+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Bangladesh− Brunei− DR Congo− Ecuador− Egypt− Kazakhstan− Laos− Saint Lucia− Madagascar− Mauritania− Namibia− Rwanda− Chad− Togo− Thailand− Tonga
  • 2020
    + Afghanistan+ Bhutan+ DR Congo+ Dominican Republic+ Egypt+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Chad+ Thailand+ Tonga− Costa Rica− Fiji− Guatemala− Honduras− Kenya− Cambodia− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Mongolia− Niger− Russia− Vietnam
  • 2019
    + Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Fiji+ Guatemala+ Kenya+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Turkmenistan+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bermuda− Bhutan− Cabo Verde− Egypt− Grenada− Indonesia− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mozambique− Netherlands− Puerto Rico− North Korea
  • 2018
    + Afghanistan+ United Arab Emirates+ Bhutan+ Ecuador+ Myanmar+ Puerto Rico+ North Korea+ San Marino+ British Virgin Islands− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Republic of the Congo− Dominican Republic− Kenya− Maldives− Peru− Sint Maarten− Tajikistan
  • 2017
    + Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Sint Maarten+ Samoa− Aruba− Angola− DR Congo− Eritrea− Panama− Puerto Rico− Syria− Thailand− Tanzania− British Virgin Islands− Vietnam
  • 2016
    + Bangladesh+ DR Congo+ Greece+ Monaco+ Peru+ Thailand− Bermuda− Ecuador− Guatemala− Jamaica− Cambodia− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Lesotho− North Macedonia− Mali− North Korea− Sudan− São Tomé and Príncipe− Sint Maarten− Turks and Caicos Islands− Chad− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Zimbabwe

Not in this dataset · 28 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

American SamoaBahamasBoliviaChannel IslandsDominicaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamHaitiIsle of ManKiribatiKosovoNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanTuvaluUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican City

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

    databrowser.uis.unesco.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary 2023

    indicators

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 26, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    26 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as outbound-mobility-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/outbound-mobility

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics data API. Most values are UIS estimates, because the count abroad is built from what host countries report about where their foreign students come from.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 26, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed
  • Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 1998–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/outbound-mobility

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Questions

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary: questions and answers

What is the Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary?

The outbound mobility ratio counts a country’s students enrolled at universities abroad, as a share of the students enrolled at home. It is the mirror of the inbound mobility rate: that one says who comes in, this one who leaves.

Which years of the Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary can I download?

All 26, from 1998 to 2023, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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