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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999

Figures for 1999, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999 covers 91 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 71.375; Djibouti is lowest, at 0.245. The middle country reads 11.032. Against 1996, 52 values changed (38 up, 14 down), 39 countries joined, 10 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1999

HighestUnited States

71.375

LowestDjibouti

0.245

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, 1999, 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 91 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America71.37582.46261.071
2British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean57.79982.71134.037
3RussiaRUSEastern Europe52.126——
4BelarusBLREastern Europe51.91759.44644.753
5LibyaLBYNorthern Africa50.36251.39749.420
6ArgentinaARGSouth America49.51162.19137.283
7UkraineUKREastern Europe48.15751.60644.817
8IcelandISLNorthern Europe41.31051.89430.943
9PanamaPANCentral America39.53248.81130.550
10GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia38.48339.07537.861
11PeruPERSouth America38.012——
12BarbadosBRBCaribbean36.05750.44821.969
13ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia34.58137.38431.847
14UruguayURYSouth America33.62042.78724.635
15ArmeniaARMWestern Asia32.285——
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa28.602——
17LebanonLBNWestern Asia28.09228.92627.295
18KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia28.02127.52928.548
19Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia27.54131.52023.933
20PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia27.52231.09424.140
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia25.94533.42418.346
22ArubaABWCaribbean25.63427.80723.484
23MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia24.18524.77923.620
24KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia24.02825.40922.619
25PalestinePSEWestern Asia22.77121.11124.376

02In 1999

At either end

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

Highest

  1. 1United States71.375
  2. 2British Virgin Islands57.799
  3. 3Russia52.126
  4. 4Belarus51.917
  5. 5Libya50.362

Lowest

  1. 91Djibouti0.245
  2. 90Malawi0.309
  3. 89Angola0.555
  4. 88Mozambique0.602
  5. 87Tanzania0.603

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 11.032. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031996 → 1999

Since 1996

What changed between 1996 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +39 / −10countries joined / left
  • 52values changed, of 52 in both
  • 38 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Aruba+ Angola+ Argentina+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ Barbados+ Brunei+ Bhutan+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cameroon+ DR Congo+ Republic of the Congo+ Cabo Verde+ Cayman Islands+ Egypt+ Micronesia+ Gabon+ Gambia+ Iraq+ Jamaica+ Liberia+ Libya+ Morocco+ Malaysia+ Nigeria+ Rwanda+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Tajikistan+ Tonga+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Türkiye+ Uzbekistan+ British Virgin Islands+ Vanuatu+ Samoa+ Yemen+ Zambia− Guinea− Guyana− India− Jordan− Cambodia− Saint Lucia− Nepal− Oman− Chad− Togo

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.

  • 32 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

Download and cite

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) (1999). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999 [data set], describing 1999. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1999

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999?

United States, at 71.375, of the 91 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999 describe?

1999.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999 cover?

91.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1999?

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, 1999 the newest?

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

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