Dataset · UIS

Female Share of STEM Graduates

19 years, 2002–2023 · 96 countries

This is the share of tertiary graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics who are women. Its point of balance is 50%, where women and men graduate from these programmes in equal numbers; above 50% means women outnumber men.

This site holds every year from 2002 to 2023, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Newest: Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023
Held: 19 years · 1,402 rows
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0

19years held
2002–2023years
1,402rows across every year
96countries in the newest152 across every year
1measure
CC BY-SA 4.0licence

0119 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2002bar height: countries covered, up to 992023

Every year of Female Share of STEM Graduates held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023Newest	96	+17 −9	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2022	88	+11 −14	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2021	91	+5 −13	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020	99	+12 −10	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019	97	+17 −12	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2018	92	+22 −12	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2017	82	+14 −24	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2016	92	+16 −18	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2015	94	+46 −3	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2014	51	+20 −30	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2012	61	+16 −15	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2011	60	+14 −16	September 29, 2026	CSV

Show all 19 years

Year	Countries	Change	Read	Download
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2010	62	+9 −8	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2009	61	+9 −8	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2008	60	+8 −9	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2007	61	+20 −11	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2005	52	+13 −14	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2004	53	+17 −14	September 29, 2026	CSV
Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2002	50	—	September 29, 2026	CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: female-stem-graduates-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Female Share of STEM Graduates: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
Column	What it holds	Stored as	Range, 2023	Distinct
Country`country`Name	The country’s name, as this file spells it.	Text	—	96
ISO Code`country_code`Identifier	The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.	Text · 3 letters	—	96
STEM graduates who are women (%)`female_stem_graduates_share`Headline	The headline figure: STEM graduates who are women (%; 50 = parity).	Number · up to 14 decimals	8.333Bermuda55.965Omanmiddle 35.300	95

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

03152 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions

Countries in each year of Female Share of STEM Graduates, by continent.
	2011	2012	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Africa	6	7	5	17	17	14	15	12	16	12	15	13
Americas	12	10	10	18	16	13	13	15	15	16	14	21
Asia	16	15	5	22	26	23	26	28	26	23	22	23
Europe	25	29	29	35	32	29	35	38	39	37	34	37
Oceania	1	0	2	2	1	3	3	4	3	3	3	2
All	60	61	51	94	92	82	92	97	99	91	88	96

The newest 12 of 19 years.

Who joined and who left

2023
+ Bulgaria+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Colombia+ Cuba+ Denmark+ United Kingdom+ Saint Lucia+ Mauritius+ Nicaragua+ Oman+ Philippines+ Puerto Rico+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Ukraine+ United States− Benin− Burkina Faso− Greece− Ireland− Marshall Islands− Namibia− Panama− Saudi Arabia− Syria
2022
+ Brazil+ Ecuador+ Egypt+ Croatia+ Madagascar+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Namibia+ Rwanda+ Syria+ Thailand− Bulgaria− Colombia− Cuba− Denmark− United Kingdom− Iran− Mauritius− Oman− Philippines− Turks and Caicos Islands− Ukraine− United States− Uzbekistan− Samoa
2021
+ Malaysia+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tanzania+ British Virgin Islands− Afghanistan− Bangladesh− Brazil− Brunei− Ecuador− Croatia− Kazakhstan− Liechtenstein− Madagascar− Mauritania− Namibia− Rwanda− Chad
2020
+ Afghanistan+ Belize+ Botswana+ Dominican Republic+ Spain+ Israel+ Jordan+ North Macedonia+ Mauritania+ Mauritius+ Chad+ Tunisia− Fiji− Honduras− Cambodia− Laos− Maldives− Montenegro− Mongolia− Malaysia− Niger− Trinidad and Tobago
2019
+ Bangladesh+ Cameroon+ Cuba+ Fiji+ United Kingdom+ Cambodia+ South Korea+ Morocco+ Maldives+ Mexico+ Malta+ Montenegro+ Panama+ Portugal+ Romania+ Trinidad and Tobago+ United States− Burundi− Bermuda− Cabo Verde− Spain− Grenada− Indonesia− Lesotho− North Macedonia− Myanmar− Mozambique− Puerto Rico− Tunisia
2018
+ United Arab Emirates+ Argentina+ Austria+ Benin+ Brunei+ Canada+ Algeria+ Ecuador+ France+ Ireland+ Iceland+ Italy+ Liechtenstein+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Moldova+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Puerto Rico+ Tunisia+ Türkiye+ Uzbekistan− Bangladesh− Republic of the Congo− Dominican Republic− South Korea− Morocco− Maldives− Mexico− Malta− Mauritius− Peru− Portugal− Sint Maarten
2017
+ Australia+ Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo+ Grenada+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Mauritius+ Netherlands+ Rwanda+ Slovakia+ Slovenia+ Sint Maarten+ Uruguay+ Samoa− Aruba− Austria− Brunei− Canada− DR Congo− Cuba− Algeria− Ecuador− Egypt− Eritrea− France− United Kingdom− Ireland− Italy− Luxembourg− Mauritania− Panama− Puerto Rico− Romania− Syria− Thailand− Tunisia− United States− Vietnam
2016
+ Aruba+ Burundi+ Bangladesh+ DR Congo+ Cabo Verde+ Cuba+ Egypt+ Georgia+ Greece+ Kazakhstan+ Mongolia+ Mauritania+ Peru+ Qatar+ Singapore+ Syria− Angola− Australia− Benin− Belize− Bermuda− Grenada− Guatemala− Cambodia− Lesotho− Moldova− North Macedonia− Malaysia− North Korea− Sudan− Slovakia− Slovenia− Sint Maarten− Zimbabwe

Not in this dataset · 73 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method

1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
databrowser.uis.unesco.org
2 · Their file
Female Share of STEM Graduates 2023
indicators
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
4 · Stored as
19 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as female-stem-graduates-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
/statistics/female-stem-graduates

Precision

The headline is stored to 14 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

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.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (FGP.5T8.F500600700). Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written. Not to be confused with the share of all graduates who studied a STEM subject.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

Share and redistribute it
Adapt it and build on it
Use it commercially
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Say what you changed
Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Female Share of STEM Graduates, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2002–2023 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

Charted
Female Share of STEM Graduates by country
Who is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
- Gender & Equality
- Education & Knowledge
Near neighbours
- Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
- Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023

07Questions