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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio

52 years, 1971–2024 · 95 countries · 3 measures

The tertiary enrolment ratio counts everyone enrolled in universities and other tertiary education, at any age, against the population of the usual five-year university age band. It is UNESCO’s standard measure of access to higher education.

This site holds every year from 1971 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · the file

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2024
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52 years · 5,237 rows
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CC BY-SA 4.0

0152 years

Every year

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

1971bar height: countries covered, up to 1482024
Every year of Tertiary Enrolment Ratio held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2024Newest95+11 −45September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2023129+15 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2022126+7 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2021125+1 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2020133+9 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2019132+9 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2018134+8 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2017137+10 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2016136+5 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2015148+18 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2014138+18 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2013132+11 −23September 10, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2012144+17 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2011139+14 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2010137+17 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2009131+14 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008128+17 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2007120+11 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006123+9 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2005123+9 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2004126+13 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2003127+17 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2002126+15 −4September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2001115+39 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 200091+21 −21September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199991+39 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199662+8 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199567+13 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199460+6 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199367+9 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199275+14 −16September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199177+14 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 199080+11 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198980+16 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198874+14 −18September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198778+13 −23September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198688+18 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198582+7 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198483+12 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198377+9 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198280+10 −19September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198189+22 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 198077+10 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197977+15 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197872+7 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197774+12 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197671+12 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197571+8 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197469+7 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197372+9 −6September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197269+3 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 197180—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: tertiary-enrolment-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 Tertiary Enrolment Ratio: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—950
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—950
Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%)tertiary_gerHeadlineThe headline figure: Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%).Number · up to 15 decimals2.57Suriname141.86Macaumiddle 52.77950
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 15 decimals2.97Suriname149.56Macaumiddle 58.38950
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 15 decimals2.173Suriname133.684Macaumiddle 42.670950

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. A higher value is the better result.

03206 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 Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa333234282824222318192017
Americas232529242322222018212214
Asia374040394142424343413930
Europe373840414142414242394026
Oceania235444554688
All13213814813613713413213312512612995

The newest 12 of 52 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Aruba+ Brazil+ Gambia+ Honduras+ Kiribati+ Monaco+ Marshall Islands+ Oman+ Saudi Arabia+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Zimbabwe− Argentina− Burundi− Belgium− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bermuda− Brunei− Canada− Republic of the Congo− Czechia− Ecuador− United Kingdom− Georgia− Greece− Guatemala− Croatia− Indonesia− Iceland− Italy− Japan− Laos− Lebanon− Saint Lucia− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− North Macedonia− Malta− Montenegro− Nicaragua− Netherlands− Panama− Puerto Rico− Portugal− Palestine− Romania− Singapore− Slovenia− Sint Maarten− Turks and Caicos Islands− Timor-Leste− Tonga− Tunisia− Türkiye− Tuvalu− Uruguay− South Africa
  • 2023
    + Angola+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Guatemala+ Guyana+ Kenya+ Nicaragua+ Netherlands+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tuvalu+ Ukraine− Benin− Brazil− Colombia− Ireland− Iran− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Malawi− Namibia− Saudi Arabia− United States− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • 2022
    + Ecuador+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Palau+ Rwanda+ Sint Maarten+ Turks and Caicos Islands− Cuba− Kuwait− Liechtenstein− Netherlands− Oman− Ukraine
  • 2021
    + Vietnam− Afghanistan− DR Congo− Ecuador− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Rwanda− Chad− Togo− Tonga
  • 2020
    + Afghanistan+ DR Congo+ Dominican Republic+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Tonga− Costa Rica− Guatemala− Honduras− Kenya− Marshall Islands− Niger− Turks and Caicos Islands− Vietnam
  • 2019
    + Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guatemala+ Kenya+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Suriname+ Turkmenistan+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bermuda− Cabo Verde− Grenada− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mozambique− Malawi− Netherlands− North Korea
  • 2018
    + Afghanistan+ United Arab Emirates+ Ecuador+ Myanmar+ Malawi+ North Korea+ San Marino+ British Virgin Islands− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Kenya− Maldives− Peru− Sint Maarten− Tajikistan− Vietnam
  • 2017
    + Bermuda+ Bhutan+ Republic of the Congo+ Comoros+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Sint Maarten+ Samoa− Aruba− Angola− DR Congo− Eritrea− Monaco− Marshall Islands− Panama− Syria− British Virgin Islands

Not in this dataset · 19 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.

BoliviaChannel IslandsFaroe IslandsGibraltarGreenlandGuamIsle of ManKosovoNauruNew CaledoniaNiueNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsSaint MartinSolomon IslandsSomalilandSouth SudanTaiwanVatican 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

    Tertiary Enrolment Ratio 2024

    indicators

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

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

  4. 4 · Stored as

    52 files, one per year

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

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/tertiary-enrolment

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 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. Years reporting fewer than 50 countries are left out. Female and male ratios are stored beside the headline.

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 5, 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), Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1971–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment

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

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio: questions and answers

What is the Tertiary Enrolment Ratio?

The tertiary enrolment ratio counts everyone enrolled in universities and other tertiary education, at any age, against the population of the usual five-year university age band. It is UNESCO’s standard measure of access to higher education.

Which years of the Tertiary Enrolment Ratio can I download?

All 52, from 1971 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

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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