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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987

Figures for 1987, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987 covers 78 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 64.017; Mozambique is lowest, at 0.224. The middle country reads 5.454. Against 1986, 65 values changed (38 up, 27 down), 13 countries joined, 23 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1987

HighestUnited States

64.017

LowestMozambique

0.224

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, 1987, 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 78 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America64.01769.44058.847
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe56.272——
3BelarusBLREastern Europe47.325——
4ArgentinaARGSouth America39.75742.83536.729
5United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean28.98641.51215.918
6PeruPERSouth America27.096——
7LebanonLBNWestern Asia24.222——
8VenezuelaVENSouth America23.57524.34722.818
9PanamaPANCentral America23.11728.09918.255
10MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.601——
11CubaCUBCaribbean21.52224.40418.786
12PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia21.491——
13IcelandISLNorthern Europe21.398——
14North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe20.403——
15JordanJORWestern Asia20.01819.74820.273
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa17.88510.49224.871
17BahamasBHSCaribbean17.259——
18QatarQATWestern Asia16.97834.1068.429
19SyriaSYRWestern Asia16.79112.05621.419
20Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia15.39413.14517.357
21KuwaitKWTWestern Asia14.55716.94512.443
22IraqIRQWestern Asia10.4148.11612.710
23TürkiyeTURWestern Asia9.4126.49912.150
24AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa8.849——
25HondurasHNDCentral America8.833——

02In 1987

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States64.017
  2. 2Russia56.272
  3. 3Belarus47.325
  4. 4Argentina39.757
  5. 5United States Virgin Islands28.986

Lowest

  1. 78Mozambique0.224
  2. 77Tanzania0.321
  3. 76Rwanda0.362
  4. 75Malawi0.440
  5. 74Niger0.502

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 5.454. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −23countries joined / left
  • 65values changed, of 65 in both
  • 38 · 27rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ Algeria+ Gabon+ Honduras+ Jamaica+ Kenya+ Liberia+ Saint Lucia+ Mozambique+ Niger+ Somalia+ Togo− Armenia− Djibouti− Dominican Republic− Fiji− Guatemala− Guyana− Haiti− Kazakhstan− Kyrgyzstan− Cambodia− Laos− Sri Lanka− Papua New Guinea− Senegal− Sierra Leone− El Salvador− Thailand− Tajikistan− Turkmenistan− Ukraine− Uzbekistan− Vietnam− Zimbabwe

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.

  • 54 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) (1987). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1987

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987?

United States, at 64.017, of the 78 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987 cover?

78.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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