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Report year 2002Data year 2002
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 2002 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finland | FIN | 86.789 | 96.08 | 77.91 |
| South Korea | KOR | 80.716 | 60.81 | 99.32 |
| Sweden | SWE | 74.741 | 90.63 | 59.45 |
| Norway | NOR | 72.317 | 87.82 | 57.35 |
| Latvia | LVA | 67.809 | 84.93 | 51.28 |
| Greece | GRC | 66.891 | 71.83 | 62.38 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 66.655 | 79.27 | 54.83 |
| Macau | MAC | 66.038 | 44.49 | 92.17 |
| Russia | RUS | 65.010 | 74.91 | 55.41 |
| Denmark | DNK | 64.223 | 74.68 | 54.02 |
| Spain | ESP | 63.740 | 69.40 | 58.35 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 63.070 | 77.31 | 49.22 |
| Estonia | EST | 61.747 | 78.10 | 46.30 |
| Argentina | ARG | 61.723 | 74.47 | 49.40 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 61.128 | 68.13 | 54.24 |
| Poland | POL | 59.536 | 70.14 | 49.29 |
| Belarus | BLR | 58.972 | 68.39 | 49.93 |
| Canada | CAN | 58.413 | 67.59 | 49.69 |
| Belgium | BEL | 58.110 | 62.65 | 53.70 |
| Ukraine | UKR | 56.646 | 61.74 | 51.76 |
| Italy | ITA | 56.315 | 64.53 | 48.40 |
| Libya | LBY | 56.240 | 60.32 | 52.49 |
| Israel | ISR | 55.836 | 64.31 | 47.67 |
| Netherlands | NLD | 54.251 | 55.99 | 52.57 |
| Ireland | IRL | 53.535 | 59.80 | 47.43 |
| Iceland | ISL | 52.609 | 67.05 | 38.40 |
| France | FRA | 50.252 | 55.50 | 45.08 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 47.823 | 67.14 | 29.16 |
| Hungary | HUN | 47.357 | 53.75 | 41.29 |
| Georgia | GEO | 44.094 | 43.04 | 45.20 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 42.228 | 43.33 | 41.05 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 41.429 | 46.04 | 37.07 |
| Panama | PAN | 40.784 | 51.56 | 30.37 |
| Chile | CHL | 40.266 | 38.81 | 41.68 |
| Thailand | THA | 40.126 | 42.50 | 37.83 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 39.960 | 34.82 | 45.03 |
| Uruguay | URY | 39.583 | 52.19 | 27.19 |
| Croatia | HRV | 39.162 | 42.14 | 36.33 |
| Venezuela | VEN | 37.519 | 39.05 | 36.03 |
| Czechia | CZE | 36.888 | 38.59 | 35.25 |
| Palau | PLW | 36.336 | 51.60 | 24.02 |
| Serbia | SRB | 35.664 | 39.60 | 31.89 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 34.798 | 44.02 | 25.58 |
| Armenia | ARM | 33.962 | 38.31 | 29.26 |
| Romania | ROU | 33.702 | 37.49 | 30.08 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 33.240 | 36.00 | 30.60 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 32.742 | 34.79 | 30.77 |
| Jordan | JOR | 32.278 | 34.41 | 30.47 |
| Peru | PER | 30.256 | 31.21 | 29.32 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 28.930 | 33.04 | 25.10 |
| Egypt | EGY | 28.918 | 26.07 | 31.61 |
| Aruba | ABW | 28.582 | 34.14 | 22.89 |
| Philippines | PHL | 28.348 | 32.44 | 24.49 |
| Paraguay | PRY | 28.316 | 33.23 | 23.58 |
| Palestine | PSE | 27.504 | 26.74 | 28.24 |
| Cuba | CUB | 27.423 | 30.76 | 24.28 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 26.807 | 30.37 | 23.42 |
| Colombia | COL | 26.513 | 27.19 | 25.83 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 25.933 | 21.81 | 29.92 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 25.105 | 32.17 | 19.65 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 25.102 | 28.04 | 22.27 |
| Malta | MLT | 24.256 | 28.32 | 20.39 |
| Mexico | MEX | 22.315 | 21.40 | 23.29 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 22.057 | 24.11 | 20.06 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 19.719 | 20.66 | 18.71 |
| Kuwait | KWT | 19.280 | 28.43 | 12.40 |
| Cayman Islands | CYM | 19.219 | — | — |
| Iran | IRN | 18.276 | 17.99 | 18.56 |
| Nicaragua | NIC | 17.965 | 18.47 | 17.45 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 17.719 | 20.63 | 14.91 |
| Qatar | QAT | 17.287 | 31.07 | 7.97 |
| Belize | BLZ | 17.095 | 21.02 | 13.07 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 17.036 | — | — |
| Algeria | DZA | 16.975 | — | — |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 16.935 | 9.65 | 24.87 |
| Jamaica | JAM | 16.849 | 23.57 | 10.34 |
| Albania | ALB | 16.390 | 19.59 | 12.95 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 16.048 | 18.37 | 13.79 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 15.124 | 14.95 | 15.29 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 14.682 | 13.72 | 15.61 |
| Brunei | BRN | 14.115 | 19.15 | 9.72 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 13.738 | 12.22 | 15.23 |
| Syria | SYR | 12.648 | 11.57 | 13.70 |
| Iraq | IRQ | 12.616 | 8.72 | 16.39 |
| China | CHN | 11.805 | — | — |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 11.631 | — | — |
| Suriname | SUR | 11.260 | 14.54 | 8.23 |
| Morocco | MAR | 10.617 | 9.31 | 11.92 |
| India | IND | 10.559 | 8.61 | 12.35 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 9.557 | 8.27 | 10.82 |
| Guatemala | GTM | 9.502 | 8.22 | 10.78 |
| Sudan | SDN | 9.313 | 9.97 | 8.65 |
| Yemen | YEM | 9.184 | 4.63 | 13.55 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | 8.587 | 10.37 | 6.85 |
| Timor-Leste | TLS | 8.404 | 9.39 | 7.52 |
| Botswana | BWA | 7.803 | 7.58 | 8.04 |
| Andorra | AND | 7.311 | 7.49 | 7.14 |
| Tonga | TON | 6.129 | 7.71 | 4.66 |
| Namibia | NAM | 6.050 | 6.93 | 5.15 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 5.916 | 3.78 | 8.07 |
| Vanuatu | VUT | 5.417 | 3.82 | 7.03 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 5.156 | 4.01 | 6.30 |
| Nepal | NPL | 4.988 | 2.08 | 7.82 |
| Benin | BEN | 4.928 | — | — |
| Eswatini | SWZ | 4.417 | 4.65 | 4.16 |
| Laos | LAO | 4.059 | 2.95 | 5.13 |
| Cabo Verde | CPV | 3.767 | 3.94 | 3.60 |
| Republic of the Congo | COG | 3.762 | 1.20 | 6.27 |
| Uganda | UGA | 3.544 | 2.70 | 4.40 |
| Mauritania | MRT | 3.084 | 1.31 | 4.85 |
| Kenya | KEN | 2.877 | 2.01 | 3.74 |
| Eritrea | ERI | 2.544 | 0.67 | 4.46 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 2.337 | 1.32 | 3.40 |
| Lesotho | LSO | 2.245 | 2.54 | 1.93 |
| Sierra Leone | SLE | 1.988 | 1.14 | 2.84 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 1.929 | 1.76 | 2.09 |
| Mali | MLI | 1.885 | 1.27 | 2.48 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 1.872 | 1.18 | 2.69 |
| Ethiopia | ETH | 1.684 | 0.90 | 2.44 |
| Burundi | BDI | 1.601 | 0.97 | 2.24 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 1.341 | 0.69 | 1.99 |
| Djibouti | DJI | 0.934 | 0.83 | 1.04 |
| Angola | AGO | 0.784 | 0.62 | 0.95 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 0.697 | 0.35 | 1.05 |
| Mozambique | MOZ | 0.682 | 0.40 | 0.97 |
| Malawi | MWI | 0.385 | 0.22 | 0.56 |