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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977

Figures for 1977, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977 covers 74 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 51.787; Oman is lowest, at 0.027. The middle country reads 2.466. Against 1976, 62 values changed (45 up, 17 down), 12 countries joined, 9 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1977

HighestUnited States

51.787

LowestOman

0.027

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, 1977, 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 74 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America51.78748.92754.646
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe43.705——
3BahamasBHSCaribbean28.847——
4ArgentinaARGSouth America23.95323.01224.882
5MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.599——
6PanamaPANCentral America19.62520.51218.761
7UruguayURYSouth America17.31916.39818.245
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia16.490——
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.29412.29118.083
10PeruPERSouth America14.939——
11EgyptEGYNorthern Africa14.6198.51620.549
12CubaCUBCaribbean13.54611.11015.926
13SyriaSYRWestern Asia12.5156.16718.699
14IraqIRQWestern Asia9.5686.16312.925
15JordanJORWestern Asia9.0996.51711.549
16TürkiyeTURWestern Asia8.8143.42113.750
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia8.20610.5376.459
18El SalvadorSLVCentral America7.799——
19Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.3563.36010.988
20NicaraguaNICCentral America7.2685.0959.433
21JamaicaJAMCaribbean6.887——
22HondurasHNDCentral America6.1044.4877.721
23LibyaLBYNorthern Africa5.1092.0757.880
24IndiaINDSouthern Asia4.8692.5097.037
25GuatemalaGTMCentral America4.8212.4687.132

02In 1977

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States51.787
  2. 2Russia43.705
  3. 3Bahamas28.847
  4. 4Argentina23.953
  5. 5Mongolia22.599

Lowest

  1. 74Oman0.027
  2. 73Mozambique0.102
  3. 72Niger0.153
  4. 71Tanzania0.176
  5. 70Burkina Faso0.190

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2.466. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031976 → 1977

Since 1976

What changed between 1976 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −9countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 45 · 17rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Cuba10.522 → 13.546+3.024
  • Jordan6.868 → 9.099+2.231
  • Egypt12.675 → 14.619+1.944
  • Syria10.573 → 12.515+1.942
  • Panama17.759 → 19.625+1.866

Fell most

+ Bahamas+ Brunei+ Ethiopia+ Jamaica+ Saint Lucia+ Sri Lanka+ Mozambique+ Oman+ Senegal+ El Salvador+ Uruguay+ Samoa− Burundi− Belarus− Djibouti− Ghana− Guyana− North Macedonia− Somalia− Ukraine− Venezuela

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.

  • 38 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) (1977). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977 [data set], describing 1977. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1977

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977?

United States, at 51.787, of the 74 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977 describe?

1977.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977 cover?

74.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1977?

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, 1977 the newest?

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

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