Data for 2008

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008

Name: Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
License: https://uis.unesco.org/

Figures for 2008, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008 covers 128 countries on 3 measures. Cuba is highest, at 117.16; Turks and Caicos Islands is lowest, at 0.12. The middle country reads 32.96. Against 2007, 111 values changed (90 up, 21 down), 17 countries joined, 9 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 2008

HighestCuba

117.16

LowestTurks and Caicos Islands

0.12

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

128countries
3measures per country
2008the year it describes
128distinct values16 decimals, as published
Sep 10, 2026read from the publisher
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

01Position · derived

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Every country and every column of Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008, 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, 2008: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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1	Cuba`CUB`Caribbean	117.16	147.85	88.123
2	South Korea`KOR`Eastern Asia	103.14	84.20	119.995
3	Finland`FIN`Northern Europe	95.87	106.33	85.861
4	Slovenia`SVN`Southern Europe	88.60	105.94	72.188
5	Lithuania`LTU`Northern Europe	85.75	104.03	67.910
6	Puerto Rico`PRI`Caribbean	84.46	102.63	66.518
7	Ukraine`UKR`Eastern Europe	79.73	88.83	71.049
8	Venezuela`VEN`South America	78.25	98.84	58.324
9	Russia`RUS`Eastern Europe	77.53	88.74	66.484
10	Denmark`DNK`Northern Europe	74.86	88.73	61.571
11	Norway`NOR`Northern Europe	73.59	91.52	56.423
12	Iceland`ISL`Northern Europe	73.58	97.21	51.075
13	Romania`ROU`Eastern Europe	73.45	85.24	62.315
14	Latvia`LVA`Northern Europe	72.36	95.62	50.249
15	Belarus`BLR`Eastern Europe	71.32	85.51	57.892
16	Sweden`SWE`Northern Europe	71.16	87.93	55.180
17	Poland`POL`Eastern Europe	70.29	82.43	58.590
18	Spain`ESP`Southern Europe	69.40	76.95	62.228
19	Argentina`ARG`South America	68.56	83.67	54.076
20	Estonia`EST`Northern Europe	67.84	86.08	50.566
21	Italy`ITA`Southern Europe	67.58	79.28	56.358
22	Austria`AUT`Western Europe	66.20	—	—
23	San Marino`SMR`Southern Europe	65.98	78.73	54.172
24	Canada`CAN`Northern America	64.31	74.75	54.333
25	Hungary`HUN`Eastern Europe	63.97	75.54	52.823
26	Belgium`BEL`Western Europe	62.76	69.88	55.806
27	Netherlands`NLD`Western Europe	61.02	64.04	58.088
28	Czechia`CZE`Eastern Europe	57.92	65.92	50.313
29	United Kingdom`GBR`Northern Europe	57.43	66.16	48.814
30	Israel`ISR`Western Asia	56.78	64.50	49.374
31	Chile`CHL`South America	56.77	57.59	55.986
32	Hong Kong`HKG`Eastern Asia	55.80	55.06	56.583
33	Slovakia`SVK`Eastern Europe	54.16	66.57	42.216
34	Ireland`IRL`Northern Europe	54.02	58.68	49.367
35	Bulgaria`BGR`Eastern Europe	52.65	60.18	45.585
36	France`FRA`Western Europe	52.48	58.71	46.399
37	Croatia`HRV`Southern Europe	52.35	58.46	46.506
38	Uruguay`URY`South America	51.06	—	—
39	Switzerland`CHE`Western Europe	49.69	49.50	49.876
40	Mongolia`MNG`Eastern Asia	49.17	60.07	38.349
41	Serbia`SRB`Southern Europe	48.67	55.85	41.961
42	Macau`MAC`Eastern Asia	48.17	47.49	48.868
43	Armenia`ARM`Western Asia	46.52	51.95	40.739
44	Thailand`THA`South-eastern Asia	46.35	51.12	41.785
45	Kyrgyzstan`KGZ`Central Asia	45.58	51.76	39.267
46	Palestine`PSE`Western Asia	44.70	48.41	41.023
47	Montenegro`MNE`Southern Europe	43.56	48.81	38.587
48	Panama`PAN`Central America	43.10	52.45	34.096
49	Lebanon`LBN`Western Asia	41.77	46.70	37.065
50	Jordan`JOR`Western Asia	41.37	46.28	37.201
51	Cyprus`CYP`Western Asia	40.85	41.13	40.580
52	Türkiye`TUR`Western Asia	40.77	35.91	45.424
53	North Macedonia`MKD`Southern Europe	39.64	43.27	36.182
54	Georgia`GEO`Western Asia	38.64	40.78	36.392
55	Ecuador`ECU`South America	38.19	40.94	35.509
56	Colombia`COL`South America	37.94	37.38	38.506
57	Paraguay`PRY`South America	36.89	42.73	31.255
58	Liechtenstein`LIE`Western Europe	36.73	24.84	48.072
59	Iran`IRN`Southern Asia	36.19	39.14	33.367
60	Aruba`ABW`Caribbean	35.10	40.92	29.324
61	Bosnia and Herzegovina`BIH`Southern Europe	34.47	39.33	29.817
62	Tunisia`TUN`Northern Africa	33.58	39.95	27.315
63	Malta`MLT`Southern Europe	33.32	39.51	27.418
64	Cayman Islands`CYM`Caribbean	33.02	43.70	21.434
65	Malaysia`MYS`South-eastern Asia	32.90	38.46	27.826
66	Albania`ALB`Southern Europe	31.68	36.39	27.161
67	Bermuda`BMU`Northern America	29.99	41.17	19.268
68	Egypt`EGY`Northern Africa	28.69	27.69	29.638
69	Philippines`PHL`South-eastern Asia	27.13	30.43	24.017
70	Mauritius`MUS`Eastern Africa	27.03	29.96	24.158
71	Mexico`MEX`Central America	25.78	25.48	26.092
72	El Salvador`SLV`Central America	25.54	26.94	24.048
73	Saudi Arabia`SAU`Western Asia	24.47	35.43	17.813
74	Tajikistan`TJK`Central Asia	22.75	14.68	31.479
75	Jamaica`JAM`Caribbean	22.32	31.18	13.763
76	China`CHN`Eastern Asia	21.87	22.30	21.470
77	Syria`SYR`Western Asia	21.80	20.38	23.195
78	Indonesia`IDN`South-eastern Asia	20.52	19.94	21.079
79	Oman`OMN`Western Asia	20.45	—	—
80	Vietnam`VNM`South-eastern Asia	20.06	19.38	20.740
81	Saint Kitts and Nevis`KNA`Caribbean	19.88	26.92	12.931
82	Azerbaijan`AZE`Western Asia	19.05	18.87	19.227
83	Belize`BLZ`Central America	18.79	23.04	14.478
84	Montserrat`MSR`Caribbean	17.65	29.08	6.757
85	Honduras`HND`Central America	17.53	21.40	13.788
86	Brunei`BRN`South-eastern Asia	15.74	22.23	10.106
87	Saint Lucia`LCA`Caribbean	15.72	22.20	9.404
88	India`IND`Southern Asia	15.65	—	—
89	Sudan`SDN`Northern Africa	14.39	14.60	14.170
90	Botswana`BWA`Southern Africa	14.27	—	—
91	Laos`LAO`South-eastern Asia	13.08	11.47	14.637
92	Morocco`MAR`Northern Africa	12.64	12.49	12.780
93	Cabo Verde`CPV`Western Africa	11.65	13.53	9.922
94	Maldives`MDV`Southern Asia	11.39	13.48	9.730
95	Qatar`QAT`Western Asia	11.34	33.90	5.227
96	Andorra`AND`Southern Europe	10.99	13.10	9.019
97	Luxembourg`LUX`Western Europe	10.67	10.51	10.825
98	Guyana`GUY`South America	10.61	12.45	8.777
99	Nepal`NPL`Southern Asia	10.47	8.05	13.069
100	Uzbekistan`UZB`Central Asia	9.90	7.97	11.794
101	Namibia`NAM`Southern Africa	9.49	10.61	8.341
102	Guinea`GIN`Western Africa	9.33	4.52	14.196
103	Yemen`YEM`Western Asia	9.21	5.55	12.732
104	Cambodia`KHM`South-eastern Asia	8.93	6.01	11.873
105	Bangladesh`BGD`Southern Asia	8.62	6.08	11.155
106	Cameroon`CMR`Middle Africa	8.21	7.25	9.164
107	Ghana`GHA`Western Africa	7.91	4.81	10.953
108	Senegal`SEN`Western Africa	7.76	5.43	10.112
109	Côte d’Ivoire`CIV`Western Africa	7.40	5.27	9.503
110	Benin`BEN`Western Africa	7.34	3.97	10.685
111	Bhutan`BTN`Southern Asia	6.58	4.98	7.949
112	Anguilla`AIA`Caribbean	5.36	8.89	1.793
113	DR Congo`COD`Middle Africa	5.28	2.76	7.802
114	Pakistan`PAK`Southern Asia	4.88	4.47	5.263
115	Mali`MLI`Western Africa	4.79	3.03	6.498
116	Rwanda`RWA`Eastern Africa	4.18	—	—
117	Mauritania`MRT`Western Africa	4.07	2.27	5.917
118	Uganda`UGA`Eastern Africa	3.81	3.35	4.269
119	Ethiopia`ETH`Eastern Africa	3.53	1.71	5.300
120	Mozambique`MOZ`Eastern Africa	3.52	2.68	4.381
121	Madagascar`MDG`Eastern Africa	3.24	3.09	3.382
122	Burkina Faso`BFA`Western Africa	2.93	1.94	3.901
123	Djibouti`DJI`Eastern Africa	2.90	2.33	3.457
124	Burundi`BDI`Eastern Africa	2.50	—	—
125	Central African Republic`CAF`Middle Africa	2.16	1.15	3.166
126	Chad`TCD`Middle Africa	1.95	0.50	3.397
127	Niger`NER`Western Africa	1.04	0.63	1.429
128	Turks and Caicos Islands`TCA`Caribbean	0.12	0.12	0.114

02In 2008

At either end

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

Highest

1Cuba117.16
2South Korea103.14
3Finland95.87
4Slovenia88.60
5Lithuania85.75

Lowest

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 32.96. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

Female
HighestCuba147.85
LowestTurks and Caicos Islands0.12
Middle country: 38.46
Male
HighestSouth Korea119.995
LowestTurks and Caicos Islands0.114
Middle country: 29.324

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

What changed between 2007 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

+17 / −9countries joined / left
111values changed, of 111 in both
90 · 21rose · fell
0unchanged

Rose most

Hong Kong42.61 → 55.80+13.19
Romania60.28 → 73.45+13.16
Cuba105.02 → 117.16+12.15
Cayman Islands22.10 → 33.02+10.92
Saint Lucia8.46 → 15.72+7.26

Fell most

Ireland58.30 → 54.02−4.28
Sweden75.39 → 71.16−4.24
Norway77.04 → 73.59−3.45
Denmark78.24 → 74.86−3.38
Georgia41.55 → 38.64−2.91

+ Andorra

+ Central African Republic

+ Ecuador

+ Ethiopia

+ Honduras

+ Jamaica

+ Saint Kitts and Nevis

+ Luxembourg

+ Mali

+ Montserrat

+ Namibia

+ Philippines

+ San Marino

+ Turks and Caicos Islands

+ Chad

+ Uganda

+ Venezuela

− Barbados

− Comoros

− Algeria

− Greece

− Guatemala

− Myanmar

− Malawi

− Togo

− Tanzania

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.

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2008). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2008 [data set], describing 2008. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/2008

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