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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008

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

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008 covers 121 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.84583; Chad is lowest, at 0.14642. The middle country reads 1.20017. Against 2007, 102 values changed (68 up, 34 down), 19 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2008

HighestQatar

1.84583

LowestChad

0.14642

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 121 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.99241
2CyprusCYPWestern Asia1.01346
3AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia0.98143
4MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.97743
5MexicoMEXCentral America0.97639
6Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.97309
7ChileCHLSouth America1.02783
8MacauMACEastern Asia0.97172
9LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe0.97113
10ColombiaCOLSouth America0.97072
11SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.02973
12ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.03720
13Turks and Caicos IslandsTCACaribbean1.03771
14IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.94582
15VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia0.93464
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.93424
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.91250
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.09293
19El SalvadorSLVCentral America1.10729
20GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.10758
21SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.87869
22EcuadorECUSouth America1.13265
23IranIRNSouthern Asia1.14751
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.84959
25PalestinePSEWestern Asia1.15264

02In 2008

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 120Qatar1.84583
  2. 119Anguilla1.79841
  3. 118Montserrat1.76763
  4. 111Saint Lucia1.57641
  5. 107Jamaica1.55858

Lowest

  1. 121Chad0.14642
  2. 117Guinea0.31846
  3. 116Ethiopia0.32202
  4. 115DR Congo0.35353
  5. 114Central African Republic0.36354

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20017. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032007 → 2008

Since 2007

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

  • +19 / −9countries joined / left
  • 102values changed, of 102 in both
  • 68 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Guyana1.53150 → 1.29480−0.23670
  • Maldives1.44808 → 1.27792−0.17016
  • Colombia1.06298 → 0.97072−0.09226
  • Ghana0.53138 → 0.43931−0.09207
  • Bermuda1.61848 → 1.53195−0.08653
+ Andorra+ Central African Republic+ Ecuador+ Ethiopia+ Honduras+ Jamaica+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Luxembourg+ Mali+ Mauritania+ Montserrat+ Namibia+ Nepal+ Philippines+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Chad+ Uganda+ Venezuela− Barbados− Algeria− Greece− Guatemala− India− Myanmar− Malawi− Oman− 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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 121 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

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

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008?

Qatar, at 1.84583, of the 121 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008 describe?

2008.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008 cover?

121.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2008 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2024.

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