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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2021

Figures for 2021, 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, 2021 covers 124 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.792608; Benin is lowest, at 0.563820. The middle country reads 1.231094. Against 2020, 122 values changed (82 up, 40 down), 2 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2021

HighestQatar

1.792608

LowestBenin

0.563820

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, 2021, 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 124 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.986404
2TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.015710
3EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.015927
4JapanJPNEastern Asia0.981350
5IranIRNSouthern Asia1.022820
6CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia1.022824
7PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.960634
8VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia0.958476
9IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.047963
10Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.055690
11GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.075680
12GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.075970
13NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.077343
14TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.922327
15SenegalSENWestern Africa0.921798
16Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.087848
17GhanaGHAWestern Africa0.911147
18GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.096250
19SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.099086
20SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.103280
21MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.112611
22UkraineUKREastern Europe1.114710
23MexicoMEXCentral America1.115140
24UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.875850
25BelarusBLREastern Europe1.128165

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 124Qatar1.792608
  2. 123Seychelles1.708069
  3. 122Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.696651
  4. 121Maldives1.662138
  5. 120Iceland1.506850

Lowest

  1. 110Benin0.563820
  2. 104Burkina Faso0.588372
  3. 89Liechtenstein0.651700
  4. 88Malawi0.654223
  5. 73Bangladesh0.704930

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.231094. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

  • +2 / −9countries joined / left
  • 122values changed, of 122 in both
  • 82 · 40rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Suriname1.197327 → 1.496761+0.299435
  • Samoa1.241018 → 1.504165+0.263147
  • Senegal0.789740 → 0.921798+0.132059
  • Seychelles1.601986 → 1.708069+0.106083
  • Bhutan1.087292 → 1.176062+0.088770

Fell most

+ Uruguay+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− DR Congo− Ecuador− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Rwanda− Chad− Togo− Tonga

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 124 countries has every column.

05The files

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2021). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2021

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