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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023 covers 117 countries on 3 measures. Cook Islands is highest, at 1,724.1102; Argentina is lowest, at 0.3331. The middle country reads 5.2785. Against 2022, 98 values changed (48 up, 50 down), 19 countries joined, 13 left.

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Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary · Data for 2023

HighestCook Islands

1,724.1102

LowestArgentina

0.3331

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 117 countries · select a heading to sort

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia1,724.110278.44623,117.7480
LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe167.1777172.853160.8549
BermudaBMUNorthern America166.6550142.811200.7323
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia94.5703102.48187.0380
Sint MaartenSXMCaribbean85.028619.178376.3673
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa71.395464.96781.8280
TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia64.511825.008102.6452
AndorraANDSouthern Europe62.341665.76258.5489
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe58.269869.05249.5766
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean53.066944.94966.6206
CyprusCYPWestern Asia44.472639.94150.7674
MonacoMCOWestern Europe40.774035.01549.6020
SamoaWSMPolynesia39.313616.22197.3106
Saint LuciaLCACaribbean38.597432.29251.3527
TongaTONPolynesia26.534011.18754.3848
Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa25.542625.80025.3715
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe24.796124.79524.7977
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe23.883321.26427.4638
SlovakiaSVKEastern Europe21.228220.38322.3804
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe19.965518.70721.9019
NepalNPLSouthern Asia18.685514.33824.0234
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia18.24299.52227.6258
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia17.241116.33618.4812
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia14.407613.55015.3161
PalestinePSEWestern Asia14.19159.20122.4203

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Cook Islands1,724.1102
  2. Luxembourg167.1777
  3. Bermuda166.6550
  4. Bhutan94.5703
  5. Sint Maarten85.0286

Lowest

  1. Argentina0.3331
  2. Puerto Rico0.4260
  3. United States0.6546
  4. Indonesia0.7123
  5. Mexico0.7426

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5.2785. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +19 / −13countries joined / left
  • 98values changed, of 98 in both
  • 48 · 50rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • 2 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

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

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07Questions

Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest students studying abroad (outbound mobility) in Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023?

Cook Islands, at 1,724.1102, of the 117 countries in the file.

What year does Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023 cover?

117.

Where can I download Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Outbound Mobility Ratio, Tertiary, 2023 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-26, when it was read from the publisher.

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