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Report year 2022Data year 2022
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 2022 — UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
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| Country | ISO Code | Gross enrolment ratio, tertiary (%) | Female | Male |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greece | GRC | 166.39 | 171.787 | 161.393 |
| Türkiye | TUR | 127.58 | 130.031 | 125.242 |
| Macau | MAC | 116.23 | 121.582 | 110.191 |
| Argentina | ARG | 107.10 | 140.068 | 75.615 |
| Australia | AUS | 106.24 | 128.283 | 85.645 |
| Cyprus | CYP | 105.38 | 127.424 | 84.312 |
| Finland | FIN | 104.94 | 118.473 | 92.260 |
| South Korea | KOR | 102.81 | 94.495 | 110.490 |
| Hong Kong | HKG | 100.78 | 104.508 | 97.103 |
| Chile | CHL | 99.34 | 108.698 | 90.272 |
| Singapore | SGP | 98.02 | 103.249 | 93.142 |
| Norway | NOR | 97.64 | 118.181 | 78.370 |
| Spain | ESP | 95.03 | 106.911 | 83.888 |
| Austria | AUT | 94.51 | 106.698 | 83.109 |
| Latvia | LVA | 91.33 | 108.475 | 75.098 |
| Iceland | ISL | 84.99 | 114.626 | 56.606 |
| Denmark | DNK | 84.59 | 98.932 | 70.840 |
| Bulgaria | BGR | 84.13 | 95.517 | 73.283 |
| Sweden | SWE | 83.90 | 108.327 | 62.311 |
| Belgium | BEL | 83.57 | 96.829 | 71.020 |
| Slovenia | SVN | 82.39 | 100.368 | 66.226 |
| Puerto Rico | PRI | 82.02 | 101.106 | 63.514 |
| Croatia | HRV | 80.76 | 95.909 | 66.473 |
| United Kingdom | GBR | 79.77 | 92.442 | 67.559 |
| United States | USA | 79.36 | 94.850 | 64.538 |
| Georgia | GEO | 79.33 | 84.626 | 74.363 |
| Canada | CAN | 78.85 | 92.244 | 66.306 |
| Ireland | IRL | 77.59 | 85.683 | 69.733 |
| Germany | DEU | 77.37 | 80.797 | 74.217 |
| Belarus | BLR | 77.10 | 82.609 | 71.895 |
| New Zealand | NZL | 77.01 | 97.027 | 58.083 |
| Lithuania | LTU | 76.92 | 92.461 | 62.213 |
| Uruguay | URY | 76.40 | 97.569 | 56.075 |
| Poland | POL | 75.29 | 91.933 | 59.380 |
| Portugal | PRT | 75.07 | 82.421 | 68.061 |
| Malta | MLT | 74.59 | 94.265 | 57.865 |
| Switzerland | CHE | 74.15 | 78.891 | 69.737 |
| Italy | ITA | 73.90 | 87.049 | 61.908 |
| Saudi Arabia | SAU | 73.75 | 78.452 | 69.537 |
| China | CHN | 71.58 | 77.681 | 66.355 |
| France | FRA | 71.51 | 81.477 | 62.075 |
| Estonia | EST | 71.43 | 86.791 | 56.842 |
| Czechia | CZE | 70.81 | 83.293 | 59.049 |
| Serbia | SRB | 69.80 | 84.633 | 56.228 |
| Fiji | FJI | 68.78 | 80.542 | 56.877 |
| Moldova | MDA | 68.06 | 79.540 | 56.895 |
| Mongolia | MNG | 67.70 | 85.463 | 51.015 |
| Japan | JPN | 63.38 | 62.415 | 64.293 |
| Albania | ALB | 62.65 | 74.841 | 50.619 |
| Brazil | BRA | 61.00 | 72.581 | 49.693 |
| United Arab Emirates | ARE | 60.42 | 68.079 | 54.334 |
| Hungary | HUN | 60.27 | 67.920 | 53.101 |
| Ecuador | ECU | 59.88 | 66.818 | 53.173 |
| Colombia | COL | 59.29 | 64.322 | 54.404 |
| Israel | ISR | 58.95 | 69.741 | 48.611 |
| Iran | IRN | 58.68 | 59.131 | 58.258 |
| Romania | ROU | 58.24 | 66.324 | 50.543 |
| Lebanon | LBN | 58.18 | — | — |
| Panama | PAN | 57.82 | 71.858 | 44.320 |
| Montenegro | MNE | 57.43 | 67.850 | 47.721 |
| Kazakhstan | KAZ | 57.25 | 63.155 | 51.578 |
| Armenia | ARM | 57.18 | 64.064 | 50.308 |
| Dominican Republic | DOM | 55.17 | 72.906 | 37.621 |
| Barbados | BRB | 55.06 | 74.272 | 36.260 |
| Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | 54.22 | 57.330 | 51.032 |
| Russia | RUS | 53.92 | 57.086 | 50.977 |
| San Marino | SMR | 53.80 | 48.760 | 58.324 |
| Algeria | DZA | 53.39 | 67.807 | 39.499 |
| North Macedonia | MKD | 53.16 | 63.171 | 43.604 |
| Slovakia | SVK | 52.50 | 63.247 | 42.243 |
| Palau | PLW | 51.53 | 57.749 | 45.793 |
| Bahrain | BHR | 50.31 | 73.607 | 34.772 |
| Maldives | MDV | 48.50 | 79.944 | 28.539 |
| Mexico | MEX | 46.41 | 50.255 | 42.641 |
| Morocco | MAR | 45.94 | 49.433 | 42.626 |
| Palestine | PSE | 45.80 | 55.665 | 35.693 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | 45.61 | 57.545 | 34.703 |
| Vietnam | VNM | 44.75 | 45.370 | 44.145 |
| Mauritius | MUS | 44.20 | 51.070 | 37.569 |
| Thailand | THA | 43.29 | 49.687 | 37.071 |
| Indonesia | IDN | 42.33 | 46.611 | 38.251 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | 41.50 | 63.996 | 20.665 |
| Marshall Islands | MHL | 41.34 | 47.212 | 36.035 |
| Azerbaijan | AZE | 41.00 | 44.869 | 37.608 |
| Philippines | PHL | 38.40 | 44.830 | 32.054 |
| Tajikistan | TJK | 37.28 | 33.604 | 41.200 |
| Tunisia | TUN | 37.13 | 47.830 | 26.900 |
| Malaysia | MYS | 36.99 | 43.695 | 31.033 |
| Egypt | EGY | 36.46 | 36.639 | 36.293 |
| Qatar | QAT | 35.09 | 77.343 | 16.472 |
| Andorra | AND | 34.64 | 35.311 | 34.013 |
| India | IND | 32.67 | 33.254 | 32.137 |
| Jordan | JOR | 32.51 | 39.990 | 26.167 |
| Uzbekistan | UZB | 31.70 | 29.692 | 33.613 |
| El Salvador | SLV | 31.45 | 36.176 | 26.959 |
| Brunei | BRN | 31.19 | 39.863 | 23.629 |
| British Virgin Islands | VGB | 29.04 | 35.105 | 22.104 |
| Namibia | NAM | 26.11 | 33.119 | 19.152 |
| Belize | BLZ | 23.98 | 31.015 | 17.084 |
| South Africa | ZAF | 23.73 | 29.682 | 17.871 |
| Bangladesh | BGD | 23.50 | 19.736 | 27.853 |
| Sri Lanka | LKA | 22.37 | 27.999 | 16.883 |
| Luxembourg | LUX | 21.03 | 23.168 | 19.017 |
| Botswana | BWA | 20.71 | 25.694 | 15.756 |
| Ghana | GHA | 20.45 | 19.813 | 21.068 |
| Samoa | WSM | 18.55 | 25.478 | 12.075 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | 16.97 | 23.212 | 9.459 |
| Turkmenistan | TKM | 16.73 | 16.541 | 16.916 |
| Cameroon | CMR | 16.44 | 14.660 | 18.214 |
| Saint Lucia | LCA | 16.18 | 22.510 | 10.099 |
| Senegal | SEN | 15.65 | 15.458 | 15.835 |
| Nepal | NPL | 14.84 | 15.447 | 14.229 |
| Cambodia | KHM | 14.61 | 13.763 | 15.447 |
| Bhutan | BTN | 14.58 | 15.023 | 14.171 |
| Seychelles | SYC | 13.93 | 19.591 | 9.367 |
| Laos | LAO | 13.68 | 13.847 | 13.513 |
| Côte d’Ivoire | CIV | 11.11 | 10.259 | 11.890 |
| Pakistan | PAK | 10.51 | 10.337 | 10.665 |
| Benin | BEN | 10.24 | 7.591 | 12.799 |
| Burkina Faso | BFA | 9.67 | 7.410 | 11.885 |
| Sint Maarten | SXM | 8.26 | 13.573 | 2.830 |
| Rwanda | RWA | 7.41 | 6.413 | 8.445 |
| Madagascar | MDG | 5.88 | 5.941 | 5.812 |
| Tanzania | TZA | 5.32 | 4.805 | 5.835 |
| Suriname | SUR | 5.02 | 6.909 | 3.182 |
| Malawi | MWI | 2.71 | 2.226 | 3.199 |