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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991

Figures for 1991, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991 covers 77 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 72.813; Djibouti is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 8.363. Against 1990, 63 values changed (38 up, 25 down), 14 countries joined, 17 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1991

HighestUnited States

72.813

LowestDjibouti

0.000

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, 1991, 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, 1991: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America72.81381.93064.25
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe50.46656.47444.85
3BelarusBLREastern Europe47.97952.91943.03
4UkraineUKREastern Europe45.607——
5ArgentinaARGSouth America38.330——
6GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia37.08834.03340.18
7KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia36.371——
8PeruPERSouth America31.330——
9UruguayURYSouth America30.754——
10United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean29.53643.54915.13
11BarbadosBRBCaribbean28.367——
12VenezuelaVENSouth America27.491——
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia25.922——
14IcelandISLNorthern Europe25.37129.56921.29
15KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia24.896——
16ArmeniaARMWestern Asia23.578——
17PanamaPANCentral America22.734——
18TajikistanTJKCentral Asia21.279——
19TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia21.025——
20CubaCUBCaribbean20.87524.67217.29
21JordanJORWestern Asia19.51920.11518.99
22SyriaSYRWestern Asia17.31613.55420.99
23QatarQATWestern Asia17.25738.9547.60
24Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia17.21015.85218.41
25UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia17.005——

02In 1991

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States72.813
  2. 2Russia50.466
  3. 3Belarus47.979
  4. 4Ukraine45.607
  5. 5Argentina38.330

Lowest

  1. 77Djibouti0.000
  2. 76Tanzania0.332
  3. 75Malawi0.537
  4. 74Mali0.596
  5. 73Angola0.605

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 8.363. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −17countries joined / left
  • 63values changed, of 63 in both
  • 38 · 25rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Argentina+ Bahrain+ Botswana+ Djibouti+ Dominica+ Fiji+ Georgia+ Ghana+ Equatorial Guinea+ Jamaica+ Namibia+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tanzania+ United States Virgin Islands− Afghanistan− Bangladesh− Comoros− Gabon− Guyana− Kuwait− Laos− Libya− Myanmar− Niger− Pakistan− Paraguay− Rwanda− Suriname− Thailand− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Zambia

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) (1991). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1991

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991?

United States, at 72.813, of the 77 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991 cover?

77.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1991?

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, 1991 the newest?

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

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