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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979

Figures for 1979, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979 covers 77 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 51.810; Oman is lowest, at 0.016. The middle country reads 2.503. Against 1978, 62 values changed (38 up, 24 down), 15 countries joined, 10 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1979

HighestUnited States

51.810

LowestOman

0.016

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, 1979, 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 77 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America51.81052.03351.58955
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe43.822——
3LebanonLBNWestern Asia25.998——
4BahamasBHSCaribbean25.907——
5MicronesiaFSMMicronesia23.24314.70831.41026
6MongoliaMNGEastern Asia23.033——
7ArgentinaARGSouth America22.01122.02321.99881
8PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia21.09422.90319.37049
9PanamaPANCentral America19.60321.49017.76149
10VenezuelaVENSouth America18.343——
11PeruPERSouth America16.479——
12UruguayURYSouth America16.42916.99715.86091
13CubaCUBCaribbean15.80814.23817.33947
14EgyptEGYNorthern Africa15.5349.51421.35332
15SyriaSYRWestern Asia14.8938.09721.52361
16JordanJORWestern Asia10.3298.60411.96748
17Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia9.4594.64613.78141
18IraqIRQWestern Asia9.4416.15812.66056
19BermudaBMUNorthern America8.8909.5828.21806
20NicaraguaNICCentral America8.784——
21ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia8.435——
22KuwaitKWTWestern Asia8.26811.3236.07742
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia7.7993.76211.53403
24IndiaINDSouthern Asia4.9572.6737.05579
25LibyaLBYNorthern Africa4.9122.1167.44994

02In 1979

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States51.810
  2. 2Russia43.822
  3. 3Lebanon25.998
  4. 4Bahamas25.907
  5. 5Micronesia23.243

Lowest

  1. 77Oman0.016
  2. 76Mozambique0.078
  3. 75Niger0.177
  4. 74Burkina Faso0.232
  5. 73Rwanda0.233

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 2.503. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −10countries joined / left
  • 62values changed, of 62 in both
  • 38 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Cameroon+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Lebanon+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Nicaragua+ Peru+ Eswatini+ Uruguay+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Albania− Guatemala− Honduras− Iran− Iceland− Mauritania− Senegal− Sierra Leone− El Salvador− Samoa

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) (1979). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1979

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979?

United States, at 51.810, of the 77 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979 cover?

77.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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