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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017

Figures for 2017, 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, 2017 covers 135 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.89764; Benin is lowest, at 0.44382. The middle country reads 1.20256. Against 2016, 125 values changed (82 up, 43 down), 10 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2017

HighestQatar

1.89764

LowestBenin

0.44382

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, 2017, 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 135 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe0.98883
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.01344
3MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.97615
4MexicoMEXCentral America1.02585
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.03169
6EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.96740
7JapanJPNEastern Asia0.96153
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.04078
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.04795
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.95175
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa0.94428
12FijiFJIMelanesia1.05873
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.05894
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.94079
15PeruPERSouth America1.07524
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.07793
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.07864
18Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.09769
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.09835
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.10132
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.89501
22VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia1.10749
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa0.88717
24IranIRNSouthern Asia0.88562
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.11952

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 135Qatar1.89764
  2. 134Sint Maarten1.68941
  3. 133Maldives1.67078
  4. 132Seychelles1.64388
  5. 131Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.63211

Lowest

  1. 130Benin0.44382
  2. 129Mauritania0.45189
  3. 127Togo0.46682
  4. 125Niger0.49196
  5. 122Burkina Faso0.51341

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20256. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

  • +10 / −9countries joined / left
  • 125values changed, of 125 in both
  • 82 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bermuda+ Bhutan+ Republic of the Congo+ Comoros+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Sint Maarten+ Samoa− Aruba− Angola− DR Congo− Eritrea− Monaco− Marshall Islands− Panama− Syria− British Virgin Islands

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 135 countries has every column.

05The files

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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) (2017). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2017

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