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Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020

Figures for 2020, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020 covers 99 countries. Algeria is highest, at 55.87; Afghanistan is lowest, at 12.64. The middle country reads 34.21. Against 2019, 87 values changed (45 up, 42 down), 12 countries joined, 10 left.

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Female Share of STEM Graduates · Data for 2020

HighestAlgeria

55.87

LowestAfghanistan

12.64

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, 2020, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 99 countries · select a heading to sort

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa55.87
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa54.37
OmanOMNWestern Asia54.12
LiechtensteinLIEWestern Europe53.23
SamoaWSMPolynesia51.22
BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia51.10
North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe50.05
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa49.37
ArgentinaARGSouth America48.60
PalestinePSEWestern Asia47.68
Bosnia and HerzegovinaBIHSouthern Europe47.36
BelizeBLZCentral America47.17
South AfricaZAFSouthern Africa46.22
QatarQATWestern Asia46.12
BahrainBHRWestern Asia45.50
AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe44.69
IndiaINDSouthern Asia43.42
JordanJORWestern Asia43.25
SerbiaSRBSouthern Europe43.15
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia43.09
GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia42.52
PolandPOLEastern Europe42.02
RomaniaROUEastern Europe41.76
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa41.68
EstoniaESTNorthern Europe41.44

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Algeria55.87
  2. Tunisia54.37
  3. Oman54.12
  4. Liechtenstein53.23
  5. Samoa51.22

Lowest

  1. Afghanistan12.64
  2. Andorra14.29
  3. Chad17.26
  4. Ghana18.62
  5. Burkina Faso18.82

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 34.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +12 / −10countries joined / left
  • 87values changed, of 87 in both
  • 45 · 42rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 99 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) (2020). Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/female-stem-graduates/2020

0619 held

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07Questions

Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest Women among STEM graduates in Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020?

Algeria, at 55.87, of the 99 countries in the file.

What year does Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020 cover?

99.

Where can I download Female Share of STEM Graduates, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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