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Report year 1976Data year 1976
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 1976 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USA | 53.6102 | 48.197 | 59.041 |
| Russia | RUS | 43.2358 | — | — |
| Ukraine | UKR | 38.9149 | — | — |
| Belarus | BLR | 36.5447 | — | — |
| Argentina | ARG | 26.9439 | 25.906 | 27.968 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 21.3018 | — | — |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 19.7900 | — | — |
| Panama | PAN | 17.7588 | 18.438 | 17.097 |
| Philippines | PHL | 16.2668 | — | — |
| Venezuela | VEN | 15.4268 | — | — |
| Iceland | ISL | 14.9509 | 11.341 | 18.358 |
| Peru | PER | 13.3339 | 8.180 | 18.480 |
| Egypt | EGY | 12.6753 | 7.712 | 17.508 |
| Syria | SYR | 10.5725 | 5.419 | 15.598 |
| Cuba | CUB | 10.5224 | — | — |
| Iraq | IRQ | 8.7110 | 5.752 | 11.636 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 8.2402 | 2.805 | 13.171 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 7.4276 | 4.763 | 10.082 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 7.3326 | 9.519 | 5.629 |
| Jordan | JOR | 6.8683 | 4.717 | 8.909 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 6.3002 | 2.649 | 9.641 |
| Libya | LBY | 5.5309 | 2.028 | 8.751 |
| India | IND | 5.0493 | 2.456 | 7.433 |
| Honduras | HND | 4.8084 | 3.142 | 6.470 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 4.3767 | 2.160 | 6.548 |
| Iran | IRN | 4.3757 | 2.559 | 6.065 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 4.0742 | 3.092 | 5.068 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 3.7327 | 1.942 | 5.483 |
| Guyana | GUY | 3.4706 | 2.435 | 4.529 |
| Thailand | THA | 3.2495 | 2.629 | 3.850 |
| Qatar | QAT | 3.1201 | 6.995 | 1.787 |
| Guinea | GIN | 3.0622 | 1.094 | 5.066 |
| Morocco | MAR | 2.9293 | 1.086 | 4.792 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 2.5938 | 1.456 | 3.731 |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 2.2381 | 0.441 | 4.045 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 2.1512 | 0.548 | 3.697 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 2.1317 | 1.260 | 3.201 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 2.0122 | 2.763 | 1.543 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 1.9850 | — | — |
| Gabon | GAB | 1.9620 | 0.787 | 3.178 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 1.9374 | 0.945 | 2.862 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 1.8024 | — | — |
| Vietnam | VNM | 1.6805 | 1.323 | 2.041 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 1.5992 | — | — |
| Mauritius | MUS | 1.3908 | 0.485 | 2.255 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 1.2764 | 0.438 | 2.097 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1.2692 | 0.354 | 2.156 |
| DR Congo | COD | 1.2175 | — | — |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.1300 | 1.176 | 1.084 |
| Ghana | GHA | 1.0425 | 0.333 | 1.741 |
| Togo | TGO | 1.0170 | 0.277 | 1.766 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 0.8198 | — | — |
| Kenya | KEN | 0.8131 | — | — |
| Botswana | BWA | 0.7527 | 0.484 | 1.065 |
| Benin | BEN | 0.7026 | 0.208 | 1.204 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 0.6700 | 0.214 | 1.141 |
| Haiti | HTI | 0.6262 | 0.297 | 0.962 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.6190 | — | — |
| China | CHN | 0.5524 | 0.368 | 0.728 |
| Somalia | SOM | 0.4886 | 0.105 | 0.868 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.4885 | 0.100 | 0.878 |
| Uganda | UGA | 0.4720 | 0.185 | 0.763 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.4160 | — | — |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 0.3169 | — | — |
| Burundi | BDI | 0.2812 | 0.063 | 0.502 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 0.2287 | — | — |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.2222 | 0.032 | 0.435 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 0.2117 | 0.082 | 0.346 |
| Chad | TCD | 0.1476 | 0.016 | 0.281 |
| Niger | NER | 0.1113 | 0.023 | 0.196 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.0000 | 0.000 | 0.000 |