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Report year 2000Data year 2000
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 2000 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Korea | KOR | 74.6899 | 54.804 | 93.458 |
| San Marino | SMR | 59.3199 | 68.040 | 50.445 |
| Canada | CAN | 58.5191 | 67.271 | 50.203 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 57.3651 | 62.238 | 52.547 |
| Russia | RUS | 55.2137 | — | — |
| Belarus | BLR | 54.5108 | 62.649 | 46.743 |
| Argentina | ARG | 54.0844 | 66.479 | 42.129 |
| Greece | GRC | 52.6726 | 54.265 | 51.172 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 50.5071 | 54.046 | 47.090 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 49.8008 | 73.171 | 27.344 |
| Libya | LBY | 46.5394 | 47.450 | 45.709 |
| Iceland | ISL | 45.9174 | 57.427 | 34.635 |
| Palau | PLW | 45.7822 | 68.325 | 26.391 |
| Panama | PAN | 42.5371 | 53.744 | 31.695 |
| Barbados | BRB | 41.9254 | 61.382 | 22.940 |
| Georgia | GEO | 40.6597 | 39.174 | 42.210 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 38.1128 | 32.718 | 43.435 |
| Chile | CHL | 35.4313 | 33.867 | 36.955 |
| Thailand | THA | 35.3039 | 38.714 | 31.982 |
| Uruguay | URY | 33.8414 | 42.965 | 24.857 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 33.6929 | 32.598 | 34.868 |
| Peru | PER | 33.4138 | — | — |
| Armenia | ARM | 32.5305 | 36.458 | 28.375 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 30.7993 | 32.774 | 28.791 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 29.2760 | 37.156 | 21.304 |
| Jordan | JOR | 28.7968 | 30.477 | 27.209 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 28.3759 | 33.318 | 23.881 |
| Aruba | ABW | 28.3303 | 34.724 | 22.068 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 28.1095 | 29.756 | 26.536 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 27.8115 | 33.058 | 22.706 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 27.5523 | 28.874 | 26.299 |
| Colombia | COL | 25.5097 | 26.187 | 24.825 |
| Palestine | PSE | 23.6249 | 22.352 | 24.856 |
| Cuba | CUB | 22.9957 | 25.372 | 20.762 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 22.4085 | 25.240 | 19.702 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 21.1358 | — | — |
| Mexico | MEX | 20.5260 | 19.443 | 21.673 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 19.7553 | 20.866 | 18.582 |
| Iran | IRN | 18.7802 | 17.231 | 20.289 |
| Liberia | LBR | 18.5271 | 13.031 | 24.063 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 18.2473 | 18.637 | 17.868 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 18.1113 | 19.733 | 16.547 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 17.2918 | 20.041 | 14.638 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 17.1997 | 10.167 | 24.852 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 15.3945 | — | — |
| Albania | ALB | 15.3867 | 17.503 | 13.037 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 14.8106 | 13.949 | 15.648 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 13.8694 | 18.322 | 9.552 |
| Brunei | BRN | 13.4959 | 18.801 | 8.888 |
| Micronesia | FSM | 13.3582 | — | — |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 13.0081 | 11.837 | 14.158 |
| Honduras | HND | 12.8695 | 14.636 | 11.149 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 12.0502 | 8.330 | 15.663 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 10.6760 | 10.160 | 11.162 |
| Morocco | MAR | 10.1461 | 8.555 | 11.736 |
| India | IND | 9.9383 | 7.835 | 11.872 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 9.2474 | 7.788 | 10.675 |
| China | CHN | 7.5778 | — | — |
| Samoa | WSM | 7.1876 | 6.693 | 7.637 |
| Botswana | BWA | 6.9808 | 6.557 | 7.427 |
| Sudan | SDN | 6.6948 | 7.310 | 6.077 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 5.7582 | 6.939 | 4.614 |
| Tonga | TON | 5.3739 | — | — |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 5.2517 | 3.397 | 7.103 |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 5.2435 | 2.516 | 7.923 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 4.6901 | — | — |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 4.5442 | — | — |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 4.2658 | 4.062 | 4.477 |
| Nepal | NPL | 4.1219 | 2.310 | 5.873 |
| Benin | BEN | 3.4960 | 1.383 | 5.619 |
| Kenya | KEN | 2.8150 | 1.981 | 3.646 |
| Laos | LAO | 2.6469 | 1.829 | 3.436 |
| Uganda | UGA | 2.6123 | 1.756 | 3.481 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 2.0855 | 2.506 | 1.640 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 2.0237 | 1.886 | 2.160 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 2.0099 | 0.565 | 3.511 |
| Central African Republic | CAF | 1.9437 | 0.637 | 3.229 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 1.8656 | 0.903 | 2.900 |
| Equatorial Guinea | GNQ | 1.8445 | 1.152 | 2.498 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 1.7775 | 1.839 | 1.718 |
| Mali | MLI | 1.7769 | 1.156 | 2.378 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 1.6745 | 1.506 | 1.845 |
| Comoros | COM | 1.6037 | 1.268 | 1.982 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 1.1711 | 0.513 | 1.817 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 1.1279 | — | — |
| Burundi | BDI | 1.0547 | 0.564 | 1.547 |
| Chad | TCD | 0.7930 | 0.237 | 1.353 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.6434 | 0.301 | 0.981 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 0.6135 | 0.321 | 0.914 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.3315 | 0.180 | 0.488 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.2574 | 0.241 | 0.274 |