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Dataset · UIS
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.
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary · the file
- Newest
- 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.
| Year | Countries | Change | Read | Download |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023Newest | 117 | +19 −13 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2022 | 111 | +13 −9 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2021 | 107 | +4 −17 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2020 | 120 | +10 −12 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2019 | 122 | +9 −14 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2018 | 127 | +9 −9 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2017 | 127 | +8 −11 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2016 | 130 | +6 −17 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2015 | 141 | +18 −10 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2014 | 133 | +17 −12 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2013 | 128 | +11 −23 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
| Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2012 | 140 | +16 −14 | September 26, 2026 | CSV |
Show all 26 years
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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2023 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 117 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 117 | 0 | |
Outbound mobility ratio, tertiary (%)outbound_mobility_ratioHeadline | The headline figure: Outbound mobility ratio, tertiary (% of tertiary enrolment at home). | Number · up to 16 decimals | 0.3331 Argentina1,724.1102 Cook Islandsmiddle 5.2785 | 117 | 0 | |
FemalefemaleWomen | The same measure, for women. | Number · up to 15 decimals | 0.275Argentina172.853 Luxembourgmiddle 4.722 | 116 | 1 | |
MalemaleMen | The same measure, for men. | Number · up to 16 decimals | 0.4342Argentina23,117.7480Cook Islandsmiddle 5.7888 | 116 | 1 |
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.
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 37 | 32 | 31 | 33 | 28 | 26 | 22 | 20 | 21 | 14 | 18 | 18 |
| Americas | 24 | 21 | 23 | 28 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 19 |
| Asia | 37 | 36 | 40 | 38 | 38 | 37 | 40 | 38 | 37 | 33 | 32 | 34 |
| Europe | 40 | 37 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 42 | 42 | 42 | 39 | 41 |
| Oceania | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
| All | 140 | 128 | 133 | 141 | 130 | 127 | 127 | 122 | 120 | 107 | 111 | 117 |
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 · 27 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
2 · Their file
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary 2023
3 · Read by this site
September 26, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
26 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as outbound-mobility-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
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.
Licence · checked September 26, 2026
- 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.
06Where it is used
Around the site
Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.
Charted
Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Government Spending on EducationUIS · 51 held · 1971–2023
- Upper Secondary Completion RateUIS · 45 held · 1981–2025
- Out-of-School Rate, PrimaryUIS · 32 held · 1981–2024
07Questions
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.