Data for 2006

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006

Name: Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006 covers 123 countries on 3 measures. South Korea is highest, at 99.949; Malawi is lowest, at 0.479. The middle country reads 26.247. Against 2005, 114 values changed (86 up, 28 down), 9 countries joined, 9 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 2006

HighestSouth Korea

99.949

LowestMalawi

0.479

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

123countries
3measures per country
2006the year it describes
123distinct values16 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	99.949	78.90	118.988
2	Greece`GRC`Southern Europe	95.078	101.39	89.314
3	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	93.431	103.11	84.199
4	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	85.274	102.04	69.305
5	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	84.745	105.90	64.719
6	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	82.453	100.45	65.034
7	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	79.335	96.88	62.619
8	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	78.506	91.76	65.732
9	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	77.931	95.16	61.424
10	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	74.597	96.55	53.577
11	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	73.440	84.10	62.902
12	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	72.968	95.52	51.169
13	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	71.940	79.64	64.570
14	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	68.965	76.17	62.105
15	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	68.795	86.96	51.538
16	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	68.314	79.49	57.646
17	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	67.284	78.23	56.772
18	Argentina`ARG`South America	66.944	81.57	52.882
19	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	66.399	78.93	54.274
20	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	65.090	76.13	54.449
21	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	63.372	70.14	56.754
22	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	59.827	62.23	57.500
23	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	59.191	68.46	50.084
24	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	58.441	65.22	51.821
25	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	54.733	61.64	48.122
26	Kazakhstan`KAZ`Central Asia	54.524	62.37	46.577
27	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	54.139	61.51	47.116
28	France`FRA`Western Europe	53.875	60.26	47.630
29	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	49.881	54.83	45.131
30	Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	49.776	44.64	55.156
31	Chile`CHL`South America	49.322	49.24	49.404
32	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	48.598	53.67	43.719
33	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	47.795	52.82	43.083
34	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	46.820	53.02	40.892
35	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	46.815	56.86	36.775
36	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	46.285	43.85	48.678
37	Uruguay`URY`South America	45.340	56.82	34.118
38	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	45.033	53.10	37.304
39	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	44.176	46.12	42.318
40	Panama`PAN`Central America	42.693	52.99	32.765
41	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	42.332	43.17	41.445
42	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	41.643	45.06	38.031
43	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	41.590	46.56	36.234
44	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	40.144	42.63	37.696
45	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	38.106	41.45	34.909
46	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	37.866	42.59	33.859
47	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	37.310	32.26	42.163
48	Colombia`COL`South America	34.366	35.41	33.329
49	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	34.302	35.65	33.012
50	Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	34.227	40.13	27.970
51	Peru`PER`South America	33.918	34.78	33.068
52	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	33.722	33.17	34.308
53	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	32.552	46.57	19.627
54	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	31.588	37.19	26.130
55	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	31.225	36.97	25.886
56	Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	29.817	18.07	41.596
57	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	29.253	34.00	24.737
58	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	29.194	35.84	22.886
59	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	28.370	26.55	30.104
60	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	27.670	31.80	23.899
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	27.038	30.28	23.889
62	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	26.247	29.47	23.213
63	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	26.210	30.52	21.908
64	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	25.307	26.51	24.139
65	Mexico`MEX`Central America	24.569	24.17	24.982
66	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	24.514	36.81	16.803
67	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	23.605	23.72	23.489
68	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	23.254	24.35	22.057
69	Algeria`DZA`Northern Africa	21.346	24.20	18.678
70	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	21.302	13.29	29.993
71	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	20.850	19.69	21.978
72	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	20.567	20.12	20.981
73	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	19.789	20.25	19.336
74	Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	19.458	26.85	11.484
75	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	19.233	20.31	18.245
76	Bahrain`BHR`Western Asia	17.536	31.63	8.937
77	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	17.269	—	—
78	Belize`BLZ`Central America	16.942	20.96	12.889
79	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	16.805	16.36	17.246
80	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	16.767	16.20	17.307
81	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	15.207	21.41	9.724
82	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	13.337	14.13	12.521
83	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	12.836	30.62	5.807
84	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	12.165	11.50	12.826
85	India`IND`Southern Asia	11.963	9.96	13.809
86	Guyana`GUY`South America	10.994	15.12	6.880
87	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	10.070	8.87	11.302
88	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	9.961	8.20	11.698
89	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	9.894	11.03	8.860
90	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	9.854	10.42	9.311
91	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	9.522	16.24	2.911
92	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	8.786	7.15	10.371
93	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	8.332	9.07	7.656
94	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	8.007	4.44	11.433
95	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	7.627	5.42	9.926
96	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	7.077	5.92	8.226
97	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	7.070	4.92	9.220
98	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	6.753	6.21	7.308
99	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	6.203	3.01	9.387
100	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	6.200	3.95	8.421
101	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	5.466	3.44	7.505
102	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	5.374	2.27	8.550
103	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	5.122	3.88	6.123
104	Togo`TGO`Western Africa	4.951	—	—
105	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	4.773	3.25	6.270
106	Eswatini`SWZ`Southern Africa	4.604	4.26	4.999
107	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	4.468	7.24	1.559
108	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	4.396	4.02	4.750
109	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	4.209	—	—
110	Lesotho`LSO`Southern Africa	3.675	3.99	3.348
111	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	3.642	—	—
112	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	3.561	3.06	4.071
113	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	3.487	1.78	5.225
114	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	2.746	2.58	2.908
115	Guinea-Bissau`GNB`Western Africa	2.620	—	—
116	Angola`AGO`Middle Africa	2.560	—	—
117	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2.436	1.96	2.914
118	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	2.258	1.42	3.076
119	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2.166	1.32	3.024
120	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	2.128	1.98	2.280
121	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	1.087	0.49	1.675
122	Niger`NER`Western Africa	0.960	0.52	1.375
123	Malawi`MWI`Eastern Africa	0.479	0.30	0.678

02In 2006

At either end

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

Highest

1South Korea99.949
2Greece95.078
3Finland93.431
4Slovenia85.274
5Cuba84.745

Lowest

123Malawi0.479
122Niger0.960
121Central African Republic1.087
120Mozambique2.128
119Burundi2.166

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 26.247. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestCuba105.90
LowestMalawi0.30
Middle country: 31.80
Male
HighestSouth Korea118.988
LowestMalawi0.678
Middle country: 24.737

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+9 / −9countries joined / left
114values changed, of 114 in both
86 · 28rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Cuba60.115 → 84.745+24.630
Romania45.464 → 54.139+8.675
Liechtenstein24.477 → 29.817+5.340
Ukraine66.890 → 71.940+5.050
Greece90.347 → 95.078+4.730

Fell most

Georgia49.790 → 42.332−7.458
Macau57.061 → 49.776−7.285
Saint Lucia12.792 → 9.522−3.270
Sweden81.739 → 79.335−2.404
Denmark80.812 → 78.506−2.307

+ Azerbaijan

+ Bermuda

+ Central African Republic

+ DR Congo

+ Cayman Islands

+ Kazakhstan

+ Luxembourg

+ Togo

+ Uganda

− Ethiopia

− Fiji

− Iraq

− Kenya

− Nigeria

− Paraguay

− Chad

− Tanzania

− United States

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

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2006). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/2006

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