Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2009

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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Country	STEM graduates who are women (%)
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia	57.49
British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean	56.41
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia	50.39
QatarQATWestern Asia	48.51
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	47.44
OmanOMNWestern Asia	45.86
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	45.29
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe	45.09
UruguayURYSouth America	44.57
ArgentinaARGSouth America	44.16
LebanonLBNWestern Asia	43.76
PalestinePSEWestern Asia	43.13
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe	43.00
KyrgyzstanKGZCentral Asia	42.21
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe	41.99
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	41.71
PanamaPANCentral America	40.65
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	40.19
BulgariaBGREastern Europe	39.03
IranIRNSouthern Asia	38.33
Puerto RicoPRICaribbean	38.14
RomaniaROUEastern Europe	38.08
IcelandISLNorthern Europe	37.28
CyprusCYPWestern Asia	37.00
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa	36.92

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 34.02. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

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+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bermuda+ Algeria+ Finland+ Ireland+ Iran+ Laos+ Oman+ British Virgin Islands− Andorra− Cayman Islands− Ecuador− Ethiopia− Greece− Italy− Cambodia− Luxembourg

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

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