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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988

Figures for 1988, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988 covers 74 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 66.824; Rwanda is lowest, at 0.400. The middle country reads 7.127. Against 1987, 60 values changed (36 up, 24 down), 14 countries joined, 18 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1988

HighestUnited States

66.824

LowestRwanda

0.400

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, 1988, 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, 1988: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America66.82473.4660.526
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe54.975——
3UkraineUKREastern Europe48.808——
4BelarusBLREastern Europe47.889——
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia38.471——
6PeruPERSouth America28.602——
7KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia27.568——
8VenezuelaVENSouth America24.52123.5225.499
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia22.835——
10MongoliaMNGEastern Asia22.275——
11CubaCUBCaribbean22.07225.2619.056
12IcelandISLNorthern Europe21.321——
13PanamaPANCentral America21.06224.5617.652
14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia20.371——
15North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe19.782——
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia19.547——
17BahamasBHSCaribbean18.49525.3411.685
18SyriaSYRWestern Asia18.11612.9723.144
19JordanJORWestern Asia17.70818.3317.118
20EgyptEGYNorthern Africa17.41311.7422.749
21QatarQATWestern Asia16.49434.007.681
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia15.763——
23KuwaitKWTWestern Asia15.29217.5713.223
24ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia14.972——
25El SalvadorSLVCentral America14.533——

02In 1988

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States66.824
  2. 2Russia54.975
  3. 3Ukraine48.808
  4. 4Belarus47.889
  5. 5Kazakhstan38.471

Lowest

  1. 74Rwanda0.400
  2. 73Malawi0.413
  3. 72Angola0.582
  4. 71Burkina Faso0.659
  5. 70Burundi0.728

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.127. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031987 → 1988

Since 1987

What changed between 1987 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −18countries joined / left
  • 60values changed, of 60 in both
  • 36 · 24rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Armenia+ Guyana+ Kazakhstan+ Kyrgyzstan+ Laos+ Sierra Leone+ El Salvador+ Thailand+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Uzbekistan+ South Africa− Afghanistan− Argentina− Brunei− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Jamaica− Kenya− Lebanon− Liberia− Mali− Mozambique− Niger− Nicaragua− Saudi Arabia− Somalia− Tanzania− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− United States Virgin Islands

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.

  • 58 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) (1988). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988 [data set], describing 1988. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1988

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988?

United States, at 66.824, of the 74 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988 describe?

1988.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988 cover?

74.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1988?

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, 1988 the newest?

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

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