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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2016

Figures for 2016, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

The gender parity index for tertiary enrolment compares women’s and men’s enrolment in universities and colleges. 1 means parity; below 1, fewer women than men are enrolled; above 1, fewer men than women. UNESCO adjusts it so that a gap in either direction counts the same.

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2016 covers 134 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.87426; Benin is lowest, at 0.42487. The middle country reads 1.20316. Against 2015, 129 values changed (72 up, 57 down), 5 countries joined, 17 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2016

HighestQatar

1.87426

LowestBenin

0.42487

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

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2016, 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 134 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2016: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.00687
2MexicoMEXCentral America1.01209
3IndiaINDSouthern Asia0.98551
=4GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.02540
=4SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.02540
6GreeceGRCSouthern Europe0.97294
7Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia1.03103
8EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.03234
9PeruPERSouth America1.04050
10JapanJPNEastern Asia0.95370
11FijiFJIMelanesia1.05404
12MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.94110
13MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.92931
14LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.07155
15NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.08103
16IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.09621
17GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.09870
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.10703
19IranIRNSouthern Asia0.89037
20TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.88938
21Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.11476
22ChileCHLSouth America1.11484
23UkraineUKREastern Europe1.12174
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.87792
25CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.87668

02In 2016

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 134Qatar1.87426
  2. 133Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.65517
  3. 129Kuwait1.54550
  4. 128Seychelles1.53396
  5. 127Aruba1.52683

Lowest

  1. 132Benin0.42487
  2. 131Mauritania0.45168
  3. 130Togo0.45218
  4. 126Burundi0.49347
  5. 124Burkina Faso0.50414

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20316. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032015 → 2016

Since 2015

  • +5 / −17countries joined / left
  • 129values changed, of 129 in both
  • 72 · 57rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ DR Congo+ Greece+ Monaco+ Peru+ Singapore− Bermuda− Cook Islands− Ecuador− Guatemala− Jamaica− Cambodia− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Lesotho− North Macedonia− Mali− Malawi− North Korea− Sudan− São Tomé and Príncipe− Sint Maarten− Chad− Zimbabwe

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • 133 distinct values among 134

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 2 countries share 1.02540. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 134 countries has every column.

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2016). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2016 [data set], describing 2016. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2016

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