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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978

Figures for 1978, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978 covers 72 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 52.436; Oman is lowest, at 0.027. The middle country reads 2.300. Against 1977, 65 values changed (49 up, 16 down), 7 countries joined, 9 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1978

HighestUnited States

52.436

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, 1978, 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, 1978: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America52.43651.2053.669
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe43.762——
3BahamasBHSCaribbean26.982——
4MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.704——
5ArgentinaARGSouth America21.20321.3821.030
6PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia18.820——
7PanamaPANCentral America18.77820.2717.321
8VenezuelaVENSouth America17.819——
9IcelandISLNorthern Europe15.71213.3017.975
10EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.3569.0521.465
11CubaCUBCaribbean14.987——
12SyriaSYRWestern Asia13.6467.3319.795
13IraqIRQWestern Asia9.7216.3613.022
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia9.44511.997.585
15Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia9.3064.1014.005
16JordanJORWestern Asia9.1316.9311.218
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia8.5293.7712.910
18MicronesiaFSMMicronesia8.078——
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America7.8425.0810.572
20HondurasHNDCentral America6.8715.068.685
21GuatemalaGTMCentral America5.5213.037.982
22AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe5.3984.905.871
23LibyaLBYNorthern Africa5.2382.078.129
24ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia5.0354.365.693
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia4.9912.587.200

02In 1978

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States52.436
  2. 2Russia43.762
  3. 3Bahamas26.982
  4. 4Mongolia22.704
  5. 5Argentina21.203

Lowest

  1. 72Oman0.027
  2. 71Mozambique0.084
  3. 70Niger0.152
  4. 69Rwanda0.222
  5. 68Burkina Faso0.227

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2.300. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031977 → 1978

Since 1977

What changed between 1977 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −9countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 49 · 16rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Bhutan+ Micronesia+ Liberia+ Mauritania+ Tonga+ Venezuela− Brunei− Jamaica− Myanmar− Nicaragua− Peru− Qatar− Eswatini− Chad− Uruguay

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.

  • 44 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) (1978). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978 [data set], describing 1978. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1978

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978?

United States, at 52.436, of the 72 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978 describe?

1978.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978 cover?

72.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1978?

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, 1978 the newest?

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

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