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Report year 1977Data year 1977
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 1977 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USA | 51.787 | 48.927 | 54.646 |
| Russia | RUS | 43.705 | — | — |
| Bahamas | BHS | 28.847 | — | — |
| Argentina | ARG | 23.953 | 23.012 | 24.882 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 22.599 | — | — |
| Panama | PAN | 19.625 | 20.512 | 18.761 |
| Uruguay | URY | 17.319 | 16.398 | 18.245 |
| Philippines | PHL | 16.490 | — | — |
| Iceland | ISL | 15.294 | 12.291 | 18.083 |
| Peru | PER | 14.939 | — | — |
| Egypt | EGY | 14.619 | 8.516 | 20.549 |
| Cuba | CUB | 13.546 | 11.110 | 15.926 |
| Syria | SYR | 12.515 | 6.167 | 18.699 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 9.568 | 6.163 | 12.925 |
| Jordan | JOR | 9.099 | 6.517 | 11.549 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 8.814 | 3.421 | 13.750 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 8.206 | 10.537 | 6.459 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 7.799 | — | — |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 7.356 | 3.360 | 10.988 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 7.268 | 5.095 | 9.433 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 6.887 | — | — |
| Honduras | HND | 6.104 | 4.487 | 7.721 |
| Libya | LBY | 5.109 | 2.075 | 7.880 |
| India | IND | 4.869 | 2.509 | 7.037 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 4.821 | 2.468 | 7.132 |
| Iran | IRN | 4.275 | 2.648 | 5.788 |
| Thailand | THA | 4.212 | 3.802 | 4.610 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 4.175 | 3.093 | 5.264 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 4.074 | 2.163 | 5.941 |
| Guinea | GIN | 3.468 | 1.333 | 5.649 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 3.317 | 4.534 | 2.556 |
| Qatar | QAT | 3.253 | 7.631 | 1.815 |
| Morocco | MAR | 2.813 | 1.120 | 4.526 |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 2.654 | 1.904 | 3.585 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 2.635 | 2.594 | 2.675 |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 2.549 | 0.629 | 4.484 |
| Samoa | WSM | 2.540 | 0.978 | 3.878 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 2.392 | 0.663 | 4.069 |
| Gabon | GAB | 2.350 | 0.832 | 3.919 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 2.299 | — | — |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 2.288 | 2.441 | 2.137 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 1.982 | 1.303 | 2.662 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 1.933 | 1.027 | 2.777 |
| Senegal | SEN | 1.920 | 0.764 | 3.043 |
| Brunei | BRN | 1.761 | 2.193 | 1.420 |
| Zambia | ZMB | 1.543 | — | — |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 1.504 | 0.536 | 2.463 |
| Zimbabwe | ZWE | 1.503 | — | — |
| Mauritius | MUS | 1.490 | 0.752 | 2.193 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.483 | 1.068 | 1.895 |
| Afghanistan | AFG | 1.409 | 0.583 | 2.209 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 1.228 | 0.890 | 1.557 |
| DR Congo | COD | 1.224 | — | — |
| Togo | TGO | 1.176 | 0.374 | 1.987 |
| Nigeria | NGA | 1.045 | — | — |
| Benin | BEN | 0.928 | — | — |
| Botswana | BWA | 0.830 | 0.553 | 1.143 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 0.790 | 0.733 | 0.851 |
| Kenya | KEN | 0.750 | — | — |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 0.638 | — | — |
| China | CHN | 0.624 | 0.421 | 0.818 |
| Haiti | HTI | 0.604 | 0.286 | 0.926 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.587 | 0.125 | 1.051 |
| Uganda | UGA | 0.563 | 0.285 | 0.846 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.424 | — | — |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 0.345 | — | — |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 0.262 | — | — |
| Rwanda | RWA | 0.224 | 0.040 | 0.408 |
| Chad | TCD | 0.202 | 0.021 | 0.384 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 0.190 | 0.079 | 0.305 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.176 | 0.031 | 0.339 |
| Niger | NER | 0.153 | 0.045 | 0.257 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 0.102 | 0.063 | 0.147 |
| Oman | OMN | 0.027 | — | — |