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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019 covers 97 countries. Algeria is highest, at 59.27; Niger is lowest, at 16.25. The middle country reads 34.69. Against 2018, 80 values changed (39 up, 41 down), 17 countries joined, 12 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2019

HighestAlgeria

59.27

LowestNiger

16.25

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end. Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 97 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa59.27
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe58.54
OmanOMNWestern Asia54.28
SamoaWSMPolynesia53.33
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia50.35
ArgentinaARGSouth America48.35
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe48.15
FijiFJIMelanesia48.10
CubaCUBCaribbean47.80
PalestinePSEWestern Asia47.24
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa46.22
IndiaINDSouthern Asia46.03
QatarQATWestern Asia45.13
MontenegroMNESouthern Europe44.65
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe44.17
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa43.85
NamibiaNAMSouthern Africa42.81
RomaniaROUEastern Europe42.69
UruguayURYSouth America42.56
PolandPOLEastern Europe42.46
Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia42.36
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe42.13
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia41.71
IcelandISLNorthern Europe41.63
GreeceGRCSouthern Europe41.23

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Algeria59.27
  2. Liechtenstein58.54
  3. Oman54.28
  4. Samoa53.33
  5. Brunei50.35

Lowest

  1. Niger16.25
  2. Ghana17.19
  3. Andorra18.18
  4. Chile19.16
  5. Bangladesh20.37

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 34.69. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +17 / −12countries joined / left
  • 80values changed, of 80 in both
  • 39 · 41rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • Which end is better

    Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 97 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2019). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2019

0619 held

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07Questions

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Women among STEM graduates in Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019?

Algeria, at 59.27, of the 97 countries in the file.

What year does Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019 cover?

97.

Where can I download Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2019 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2023.

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