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Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary

26 years, 1999–2024 · 76 countries · 3 measures

The inbound mobility rate is the share of a country’s own tertiary enrolment made up of students who came from abroad — how far its universities pull people across borders. It is a measure of draw, which is why it sits under mobility rather than education alone.

This site holds every year from 1999 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

Open Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2024Download all 26 · CSVSee it charted by country →

Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary · the file

Newest
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2024
Held
26 years · 2,347 rows
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

0126 years

Every year

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

1999bar height: countries covered, up to 1152024
Every year of Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2024Newest76+8 −38September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2023106+10 −9September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2022105+10 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2021103+5 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2020112+14 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2019106+8 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2018109+5 −11September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2017115+9 −4September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2016110+8 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2015110+17 −7September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2014100+19 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 201394+15 −27September 10, 2026CSV
Show all 26 years
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2012106+15 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 2011103+24 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 201087+14 −12September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200985+17 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200882+13 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200783+17 −14September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200680+18 −8September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200570+12 −17September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200475+16 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200374+18 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200266+13 −10September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200163+16 −13September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 200060+8 −15September 10, 2026CSV
Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 199967—September 10, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: inbound-mobility-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

025 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 Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—760
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—760
Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%)inbound_mobility_rateHeadlineThe headline figure: Inbound mobility rate, tertiary (%).Number · up to 16 decimals0.0002 share it87.125San Marinomiddle 5.494750
FemalefemaleWomenThe same measure, for women.Number · up to 16 decimals0.0002 share it89.853Monacomiddle 5.298714
MalemaleMenThe same measure, for men.Number · up to 16 decimals0.0003 share it85.110San Marinomiddle 6.042704

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. A higher value is the better result.

03177 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 Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa232123242519182016181713
Americas9141715161513151315178
Asia273232323131313230302923
Europe343236374041404141383926
Oceania112233443446
All9410011011011510910611210310510676

The newest 12 of 26 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Aruba+ Honduras+ Kazakhstan+ Kiribati+ Marshall Islands+ Palau+ Saudi Arabia+ Zimbabwe− Argentina− Burundi− Belgium− Bosnia and Herzegovina− Bermuda− Brunei− Canada− Cameroon− Czechia− Ecuador− United Kingdom− Georgia− Greece− Guatemala− Croatia− India− Iceland− Italy− Japan− Lebanon− Saint Lucia− Sri Lanka− Madagascar− North Macedonia− Malta− Nicaragua− Panama− Portugal− Palestine− Romania− El Salvador− Slovenia− Tunisia− Türkiye− Uruguay− United States− Samoa− South Africa
  • 2023
    + Burundi+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Guatemala+ Nicaragua+ Oman+ Russia+ Ukraine− Benin− Bangladesh− Colombia− Ireland− Iran− Marshall Islands− Namibia− Saudi Arabia− Turks and Caicos Islands
  • 2022
    + Bangladesh+ Belize+ Ecuador+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands+ Mongolia+ Namibia+ Rwanda+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Thailand− Bhutan− Cuba− Cambodia− Liechtenstein− Netherlands− Oman− Suriname− Ukraine
  • 2021
    + Bhutan+ Cambodia+ Suriname+ Tanzania+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Brunei− DR Congo− Ecuador− Kazakhstan− Laos− Saint Lucia− Mauritania− Namibia− Rwanda− Chad− Thailand− Tonga− British Virgin Islands
  • 2020
    + Afghanistan+ DR Congo+ Dominican Republic+ Israel+ Monaco+ Mauritius+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Chad+ Thailand+ Tonga+ Tunisia+ Uruguay+ British Virgin Islands− Guatemala− Honduras− Kenya− Marshall Islands− Mongolia− Niger− Russia− Vietnam
  • 2019
    + Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guatemala+ Kenya+ Marshall Islands+ Mauritania+ Turkmenistan+ Vietnam− Burundi− Bermuda− Cabo Verde− Costa Rica− Grenada− Indonesia− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mozambique− Netherlands− Tunisia
  • 2018
    + Albania+ United Arab Emirates+ Ecuador+ Myanmar+ San Marino− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Kenya− Monaco− Mauritania− Mauritius− Sint Maarten− Tajikistan− Vietnam
  • 2017
    + Bermuda+ Comoros+ Costa Rica+ Lesotho+ Monaco+ North Macedonia+ Portugal+ Sint Maarten+ Samoa− Aruba− DR Congo− Thailand− British Virgin Islands

Not in this dataset · 47 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.

AngolaBahamasBoliviaChannel IslandsCuraçaoDominicaEquatorial GuineaEthiopiaFaroe IslandsFrench PolynesiaGibraltarGreenlandGuamGuinea-BissauHaitiIsle of ManKosovoKuwaitLiberiaLibyaMicronesiaMontenegroNauruNew CaledoniaNigeriaNiueNorthern Mariana IslandsPapua New GuineaParaguayPeruPuerto RicoSaint MartinSaint Vincent and the GrenadinesSão Tomé and PríncipeSierra LeoneSolomon IslandsSomaliaSomalilandSouth SudanSudanSyriaTaiwanTimor-LesteTuvaluVanuatuVatican CityZambia

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. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

    databrowser.uis.unesco.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary 2024

    indicators

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 10, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.

  4. 4 · Stored as

    26 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as inbound-mobility-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/inbound-mobility

Precision

The headline is stored to 16 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. This is inbound, not outbound: UIS publishes an outbound ratio too, and it answers a different question.

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 5, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • 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), Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary, 1999–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/inbound-mobility

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.

07Questions

Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary: questions and answers

What is the Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary?

The inbound mobility rate is the share of a country’s own tertiary enrolment made up of students who came from abroad — how far its universities pull people across borders. It is a measure of draw, which is why it sits under mobility rather than education alone.

Which years of the Inbound Mobility Rate, Tertiary can I download?

All 26, from 1999 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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