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Report year 1993Data year 1993
Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%)Higher is better — rank 1 leadsPublished by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
52 editions (1971–2024), 60 to 148 countries. The number of people enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the population of the standard tertiary age group. Female and male ratios are stored beside the headline figure. ⚠ A GROSS RATIO, SO IT CAN EXCEED 100%. It counts everyone enrolled, at any age, against the population of the five-year age band that would normally be studying — so mature students, repeaters and inbound foreign students all push it up. Macau leads 2024 at 142%, which is not an error and does not mean everyone is enrolled. ⚠ Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written — that drops UIS’s trailing stub year, which opens with a handful of early reporters, and any thin historical year. ⚠ UIS ranks nobody, so no rank is stored; the POSITION on the statistics page is derived here by ordering the score and labelled as ours.
Tertiary Enrolment Ratio 1993 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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UIS release 20260507-91260335. Read from the UIS API at full precision, as published — nothing is rounded here. ⚠ Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0, so anything derived from it carries the same ShareAlike obligation. UIS publishes no rank, so none is stored and none is derived here.
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USA | 78.714 | 89.528 | 68.60 |
| Russia | RUS | 46.184 | 51.016 | 41.51 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 43.972 | — | — |
| Belarus | BLR | 43.463 | — | — |
| United States Virgin Islands | VIR | 33.551 | 48.663 | 17.78 |
| Iceland | ISL | 27.502 | 32.130 | 23.00 |
| Peru | PER | 27.471 | — | — |
| Barbados | BRB | 27.239 | — | — |
| Panama | PAN | 26.271 | — | — |
| Armenia | ARM | 22.564 | — | — |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 22.097 | 24.411 | 19.64 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 20.743 | — | — |
| Thailand | THA | 19.885 | 21.127 | 18.67 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 19.595 | 19.147 | 19.99 |
| Jordan | JOR | 19.505 | 20.533 | 18.61 |
| Qatar | QAT | 18.669 | 43.683 | 7.67 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 18.325 | 24.047 | 13.93 |
| Cuba | CUB | 17.948 | 21.304 | 14.77 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 17.641 | — | — |
| Syria | SYR | 16.548 | 13.612 | 19.41 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 15.907 | 16.595 | 15.23 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 15.538 | 21.148 | 10.42 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 15.490 | 10.965 | 19.83 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 13.623 | 12.719 | 14.51 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 12.402 | — | — |
| Albania | ALB | 11.017 | 11.150 | 10.88 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 10.948 | 10.059 | 11.81 |
| Algeria | DZA | 10.863 | — | — |
| Morocco | MAR | 10.643 | 8.271 | 13.04 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | 10.482 | 11.522 | 9.46 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 10.399 | 8.797 | 11.92 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 9.457 | — | — |
| Indonesia | IDN | 9.340 | 7.429 | 11.22 |
| Honduras | HND | 9.124 | 8.116 | 10.14 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 8.248 | — | — |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 7.217 | 6.021 | 8.38 |
| Dominica | DMA | 6.948 | 6.639 | 7.25 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 5.996 | — | — |
| Brunei | BRN | 5.811 | 7.144 | 4.64 |
| Myanmar | MMR | 5.730 | 6.722 | 4.77 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 5.707 | 7.016 | 4.43 |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 5.575 | — | — |
| Botswana | BWA | 5.166 | 4.455 | 5.92 |
| Nepal | NPL | 4.959 | — | — |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 4.433 | 3.912 | 4.97 |
| Oman | OMN | 4.197 | 5.035 | 3.63 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 3.518 | 1.046 | 5.97 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 3.326 | — | — |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 2.936 | — | — |
| China | CHN | 2.934 | — | — |
| Lesotho | LSO | 2.273 | 2.498 | 2.04 |
| Togo | TGO | 2.216 | 0.542 | 3.89 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 2.016 | — | — |
| Benin | BEN | 1.942 | 0.633 | 3.27 |
| Laos | LAO | 1.318 | 0.790 | 1.83 |
| Uganda | UGA | 1.308 | 0.775 | 1.85 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 1.305 | 0.447 | 2.19 |
| Ghana | GHA | 1.254 | 0.485 | 2.01 |
| Guinea | GIN | 1.173 | 0.164 | 2.17 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 1.084 | 0.491 | 1.69 |
| Mali | MLI | 0.880 | 0.268 | 1.47 |
| Burundi | BDI | 0.829 | 0.438 | 1.22 |
| Comoros | COM | 0.578 | — | — |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.540 | 0.247 | 0.87 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 0.408 | 0.219 | 0.59 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.379 | 0.120 | 0.62 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.106 | 0.118 | 0.09 |