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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973

Figures for 1973, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973 covers 72 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 48.317; Niger is lowest, at 0.049. The middle country reads 1.778. Against 1972, 63 values changed (48 up, 15 down), 9 countries joined, 6 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1973

HighestUnited States

48.317

LowestNiger

0.049

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 72 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America48.31741.619055.073
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe43.236——
3MongoliaMNGEastern Asia19.592——
4ArgentinaARGSouth America19.57817.902021.232
5PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia16.71718.882214.651
6PanamaPANCentral America13.93514.183513.692
7IcelandISLNorthern Europe12.2877.414916.827
8VenezuelaVENSouth America11.826——
9PeruPERSouth America11.4547.492515.396
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa8.8425.071212.527
11SyriaSYRWestern Asia8.7663.651013.779
12Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean7.6706.84338.480
13CubaCUBCaribbean6.3674.12308.541
14IraqIRQWestern Asia5.8312.44079.195
15El SalvadorSLVCentral America5.7613.39668.190
16JamaicaJAMCaribbean5.6344.42876.910
17ParaguayPRYSouth America5.430——
18BarbadosBRBCaribbean5.3744.75795.987
19IndiaINDSouthern Asia5.0572.24247.651
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia4.9076.02954.070
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia4.6931.89537.259
22LibyaLBYNorthern Africa4.5611.24067.726
23NicaraguaNICCentral America4.3952.99985.785
24South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa4.392——
25JordanJORWestern Asia4.3842.86115.827

02In 1973

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States48.317
  2. 2Russia43.236
  3. 3Mongolia19.592
  4. 4Argentina19.578
  5. 5Philippines16.717

Lowest

  1. 72Niger0.049
  2. 71Burkina Faso0.059
  3. 70Chad0.069
  4. 69Laos0.151
  5. 68Burundi0.155

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 1.778. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031972 → 1973

Since 1972

What changed between 1972 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −6countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 63 in both
  • 48 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ China+ India+ Sri Lanka+ Mozambique+ Malawi+ Rwanda+ El Salvador+ Samoa+ South Africa− Albania− Belize− Lebanon− Senegal− Somalia− Uganda

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

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only; the order is this site’s.

  • 36 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) (1973). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973 [data set], describing 1973. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1973

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973?

United States, at 48.317, of the 72 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973 describe?

1973.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973 cover?

72.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973?

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

Is Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1973 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2024.

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