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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981

Figures for 1981, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981 covers 89 countries on 3 measures. United States is highest, at 55.348; Djibouti is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 4.717. Against 1980, 67 values changed (46 up, 21 down), 22 countries joined, 10 left.

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Tertiary Enrolment Ratio · Data for 1981

HighestUnited States

55.348

LowestDjibouti

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. A higher value is the better result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 89 countries · select a heading to sort

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1United StatesUSANorthern America55.34857.60353.144
2RussiaRUSEastern Europe45.90252.57939.596
3UkraineUKREastern Europe41.192——
4BelarusBLREastern Europe39.148——
5KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia32.943——
6GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia28.70826.16631.359
7MicronesiaFSMMicronesia27.36513.44840.803
8North MacedoniaMKDSouthern Europe25.255——
9LebanonLBNWestern Asia24.80818.23131.152
10TajikistanTJKCentral Asia24.231——
11MongoliaMNGEastern Asia23.139——
12ArgentinaARGSouth America22.96324.68421.274
13PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia22.37224.47520.368
14TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia22.272——
15PanamaPANCentral America20.92322.87619.015
16PeruPERSouth America20.643——
17IcelandISLNorthern Europe20.27620.87019.721
18VenezuelaVENSouth America18.972——
19UruguayURYSouth America17.251——
20BahamasBHSCaribbean17.099——
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa16.92810.88622.735
22JordanJORWestern Asia16.72415.67017.726
23SyriaSYRWestern Asia16.7179.89023.415
24CubaCUBCaribbean16.17515.87616.465
25BarbadosBRBCaribbean15.15516.41113.915

02In 1981

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. 1United States55.348
  2. 2Russia45.902
  3. 3Ukraine41.192
  4. 4Belarus39.148
  5. 5Kazakhstan32.943

Lowest

  1. 89Djibouti0.000
  2. 88Oman0.019
  3. 87Cambodia0.099
  4. 86Mozambique0.101
  5. 85Rwanda0.243

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 4.717. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

031980 → 1981

Since 1980

What changed between 1980 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +22 / −10countries joined / left
  • 67values changed, of 67 in both
  • 46 · 21rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Albania+ Barbados+ Djibouti+ Dominica+ Georgia+ Guinea+ Guatemala+ Jamaica+ Kazakhstan+ Sri Lanka+ Morocco+ North Macedonia+ Myanmar+ Nepal+ Sierra Leone+ Suriname+ Tajikistan+ Turkmenistan+ Tonga+ Ukraine+ Samoa+ Zambia− Bhutan− Gabon− Grenada− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Mali− Malaysia− Nicaragua− Pakistan− Papua New Guinea− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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

  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the better result.

  • 72 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

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) (1981). Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981 [data set], describing 1981. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-enrolment/1981

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07Questions

Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981: questions and answers

Which country has the highest tertiary enrolment in Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981?

United States, at 55.348, of the 89 countries in the file.

What year does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981 describe?

1981.

How many countries does Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981 cover?

89.

Where can I download Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981?

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

Is Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 1981 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Tertiary Enrolment Ratio, 2024.

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