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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2018

Figures for 2018, 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, 2018 covers 133 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.90133; Afghanistan is lowest, at 0.33977. The middle country reads 1.19663. Against 2017, 124 values changed (77 up, 47 down), 9 countries joined, 11 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2018

HighestQatar

1.90133

LowestAfghanistan

0.33977

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, 2018, 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 133 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2018: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.00593
2MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.99391
3CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.98393
4JapanJPNEastern Asia0.97034
5MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.97025
6United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia1.03161
7IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.04004
8MexicoMEXCentral America1.04388
9EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.04682
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.05012
11GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.05143
12GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.05297
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.05497
14LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.08569
15TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.91088
16IranIRNSouthern Asia0.91064
17Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.09448
18NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.11073
19UkraineUKREastern Europe1.11243
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.11477
21LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.11627
22CameroonCMRMiddle Africa0.88062
23EcuadorECUSouth America1.12608
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.87198
25SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.13105

02In 2018

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 133Qatar1.90133
  2. 132Seychelles1.66454
  3. 130Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.62865
  4. 129Turks and Caicos Islands1.60646
  5. 127Kuwait1.54709

Lowest

  1. 131Afghanistan0.33977
  2. 128Niger0.41416
  3. 126Benin0.47228
  4. 125Mauritania0.48884
  5. 123Togo0.50180

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.19663. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032017 → 2018

Since 2017

  • +9 / −11countries joined / left
  • 124values changed, of 124 in both
  • 77 · 47rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Burundi0.53136 → 0.61393+0.08256
  • Fiji1.05873 → 1.13919+0.08046
  • Egypt0.96740 → 1.04682+0.07942
  • Senegal0.60837 → 0.68543+0.07706
  • Cameroon0.80872 → 0.88062+0.07190

Fell most

  • Bermuda1.41274 → 1.31182−0.10092
  • Tanzania0.72081 → 0.62994−0.09087
  • Rwanda0.88717 → 0.79637−0.09081
  • Niger0.49196 → 0.41416−0.07781
  • Andorra1.19975 → 1.13772−0.06203
+ Afghanistan+ United Arab Emirates+ Ecuador+ Myanmar+ Malawi+ North Korea+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ British Virgin Islands− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Republic of the Congo− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Kenya− Maldives− Peru− Sint Maarten− Tajikistan− Vietnam

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 133 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2018). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2018 [data set], describing 2018. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2018

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