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Report year 1975Data year 1975
Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
52 editions (1971–2024), 60 to 148 countries. The number of people enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the population of the standard tertiary age group. Female and male ratios are stored beside the headline figure. ⚠ A GROSS RATIO, SO IT CAN EXCEED 100%. It counts everyone enrolled, at any age, against the population of the five-year age band that would normally be studying — so mature students, repeaters and inbound foreign students all push it up. Macau leads 2024 at 142%, which is not an error and does not mean everyone is enrolled. ⚠ Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written — that drops UIS’s trailing stub year, which opens with a handful of early reporters, and any thin historical year. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio 1975 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USA | 50.14085 | 44.960 | 55.362 |
| Russia | RUS | 43.46678 | — | — |
| Argentina | ARG | 26.91427 | 25.758 | 28.056 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 20.45055 | — | — |
| Lebanon | LBN | 20.43755 | — | — |
| Philippines | PHL | 15.87221 | — | — |
| Panama | PAN | 15.81008 | 15.960 | 15.664 |
| Uruguay | URY | 14.70605 | 12.868 | 16.554 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 14.14566 | — | — |
| Iceland | ISL | 13.85960 | 9.743 | 17.657 |
| Peru | PER | 13.22002 | 8.508 | 17.917 |
| Egypt | EGY | 11.07195 | 6.528 | 15.505 |
| Syria | SYR | 10.09572 | 4.708 | 15.361 |
| Cuba | CUB | 8.71579 | 6.340 | 11.026 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 8.30643 | 7.791 | 8.812 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 7.71451 | 4.537 | 10.857 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 7.64947 | 5.071 | 10.280 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 7.61552 | — | — |
| Türkiye | TUR | 6.80880 | 2.518 | 10.702 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 6.64049 | 4.525 | 8.747 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 5.75842 | 7.998 | 4.033 |
| Jordan | JOR | 5.62445 | 3.876 | 7.282 |
| Libya | LBY | 5.49082 | 1.797 | 8.928 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 4.99658 | 1.540 | 8.178 |
| Iran | IRN | 4.06624 | 2.406 | 5.613 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 3.98037 | 1.857 | 6.055 |
| Honduras | HND | 3.80191 | 2.601 | 4.996 |
| Thailand | THA | 3.50440 | — | — |
| Fiji | FJI | 2.81669 | 1.635 | 3.991 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 2.64432 | 1.322 | 3.937 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 2.55684 | — | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 2.47810 | 1.933 | 3.031 |
| Guinea | GIN | 2.45329 | 0.618 | 4.315 |
| Morocco | MAR | 2.28599 | 0.839 | 3.749 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 2.13493 | — | — |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 2.11066 | 0.352 | 3.873 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 2.06068 | 2.663 | 1.682 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 1.95813 | 0.534 | 3.446 |
| Gabon | GAB | 1.95166 | — | — |
| Pakistan | PAK | 1.82008 | 0.932 | 2.648 |
| Samoa | WSM | 1.77023 | 0.197 | 3.164 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 1.76207 | — | — |
| Liberia | LBR | 1.66963 | 0.739 | 2.615 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 1.54043 | — | — |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.29619 | — | — |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 1.19477 | 0.865 | 1.516 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1.12306 | 0.313 | 1.909 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 1.09932 | 0.308 | 1.856 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 1.05918 | 0.287 | 1.838 |
| DR Congo | COD | 1.05741 | — | — |
| Belize | BLZ | 0.97095 | 1.147 | 0.797 |
| Ghana | GHA | 0.96163 | 0.393 | 1.532 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 0.74165 | — | — |
| Botswana | BWA | 0.71987 | 0.427 | 1.072 |
| Togo | TGO | 0.71446 | 0.188 | 1.248 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 0.68821 | 0.241 | 1.150 |
| Benin | BEN | 0.65045 | 0.195 | 1.112 |
| Uganda | UGA | 0.51513 | 0.184 | 0.851 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.48763 | 0.388 | 0.599 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.47424 | — | — |
| China | CHN | 0.44931 | 0.310 | 0.582 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.41273 | 0.076 | 0.751 |
| Somalia | SOM | 0.38158 | 0.088 | 0.672 |
| Laos | LAO | 0.30311 | 0.168 | 0.436 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.22793 | 0.060 | 0.414 |
| Burundi | BDI | 0.22790 | 0.050 | 0.408 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 0.21755 | 0.054 | 0.381 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 0.19978 | — | — |
| Chad | TCD | 0.11478 | 0.010 | 0.221 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 0.10689 | 0.043 | 0.174 |
| Niger | NER | 0.07569 | 0.016 | 0.133 |