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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990

Figures for 1990, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990 covers 80 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 71.496; Malawi is lowest, at 0.517. The middle country reads 7.289. Against 1989, 69 values changed (44 up, 25 down), 11 countries joined, 11 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1990

HighestUnited States

71.496

LowestMalawi

0.517

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, 1990, 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 80 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America71.49679.956163.515
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe52.374——
3BelarusBLREastern Europe48.921——
4UkraineUKREastern Europe46.615——
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia37.300——
6UruguayURYSouth America30.111——
7PeruPERSouth America29.886——
8VenezuelaVENSouth America26.877——
9KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia26.288——
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.32228.838521.896
11PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia23.274——
12ArmeniaARMWestern Asia22.024——
13TajikistanTJKCentral Asia21.245——
14PanamaPANCentral America20.968——
15CubaCUBCaribbean20.67024.492717.062
16JordanJORWestern Asia19.66220.866218.530
17MongoliaMNGEastern Asia18.553——
18BarbadosBRBCaribbean18.15522.073814.385
19QatarQATWestern Asia17.96840.23137.634
20SyriaSYRWestern Asia17.38613.478321.205
21North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe17.01116.869117.149
22UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia16.855——
23Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia16.326——
24ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia15.928——
25El SalvadorSLVCentral America14.692——

02In 1990

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States71.496
  2. 2Russia52.374
  3. 3Belarus48.921
  4. 4Ukraine46.615
  5. 5Kazakhstan37.300

Lowest

  1. 80Malawi0.517
  2. 79Rwanda0.577
  3. 78Angola0.595
  4. 77Mali0.615
  5. 76Comoros0.617

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 7.289. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −11countries joined / left
  • 69values changed, of 69 in both
  • 44 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Comoros+ Algeria+ Guyana+ Laos+ Libya+ Nicaragua+ Pakistan+ Eswatini+ Thailand+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− American Samoa− Dominica− Fiji− Guinea-Bissau− Iraq− Jamaica− Kenya− Nigeria− Chad− Trinidad and Tobago− Tanzania

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.

  • 66 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) (1990). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1990

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990?

United States, at 71.496, of the 80 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990 cover?

80.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1990?

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, 1990 the newest?

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

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