Dataset · UIS
Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment
44 years, 1971–2024 · 95 countries
The gender parity index for tertiary enrolment compares women’s and men’s enrolment in universities and colleges. 1 means parity; below 1, fewer women than men are enrolled; above 1, fewer men than women. UNESCO adjusts it so that a gap in either direction counts the same.
This site holds every year from 1971 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.
Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · the file
- Newest
- Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2024
- Held
- 44 years · 4,126 rows
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
0144 years
Every year
Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.
Show all 44 years
Every year in one file, one row per country per year: tertiary-gender-parity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
023 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.
| Column | What it holds | Stored as | Range, 2024 | Distinct | Empty | Spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CountrycountryName | The country’s name, as this file spells it. | Text | — | 95 | 0 | |
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifier | The ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it. | Text · 3 letters | — | 95 | 0 | |
Adjusted gender parity index, tertiary gross enrolment (1 = parity)tertiary_gpiaHeadline | The headline figure: Adjusted gender parity index, tertiary gross enrolment (1 = parity). | Number · up to 16 decimals | 0.74008 Burkina Faso1.82964 Gambiamiddle 1.24352 | 95 | 0 |
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. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.
03203 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.
| 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 32 | 32 | 34 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 21 | 23 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 17 |
| Americas | 21 | 23 | 27 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 22 | 14 |
| Asia | 37 | 40 | 40 | 39 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 40 | 38 | 30 |
| Europe | 37 | 38 | 40 | 41 | 41 | 42 | 41 | 42 | 42 | 39 | 40 | 26 |
| Oceania | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 8 |
| All | 129 | 136 | 146 | 134 | 135 | 133 | 129 | 131 | 124 | 125 | 128 | 95 |
The newest 12 of 44 years.
Who joined and who left
- 2024
+ Aruba
+ Brazil+ Gambia
+ Honduras
+ Kiribati
+ Monaco
+ Marshall Islands
+ Oman
+ Saudi Arabia
+ Trinidad and Tobago
+ Zimbabwe
− Argentina
− Burundi
− Belgium
− Bosnia and Herzegovina
− Bermuda
− Brunei
− Canada
− Republic of the Congo
− Czechia
− Ecuador
− United Kingdom
− Georgia
− Greece
− Guatemala
− Croatia
− Indonesia
− Iceland
− Italy
− Japan
− Laos
− Saint Lucia
− Sri Lanka
− Madagascar
− North Macedonia
− Malta
− Montenegro
− Nicaragua
− Netherlands
− Panama
− Puerto Rico
− Portugal
− Palestine
− Romania
− Singapore
− Slovenia
− Sint Maarten
− Turks and Caicos Islands
− Timor-Leste
− Tonga
− Tunisia
− Türkiye
− Tuvalu
− Uruguay
− South Africa - 2023
+ Angola+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo
+ Cook Islands
+ Cuba+ Guatemala
+ Guyana
+ Kenya+ Nicaragua+ Netherlands+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tuvalu
+ Ukraine
− Benin− Brazil
− Colombia
− Ireland
− Iran
− Maldives− Marshall Islands
− Malawi
− Namibia− Saudi Arabia
− United States
− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines - 2022+ Ecuador+ Saint Lucia+ Marshall Islands
+ Palau
+ Rwanda+ Sint Maarten+ Turks and Caicos Islands− Cuba
− Kuwait
− Liechtenstein− Netherlands− Oman− Ukraine - 2021+ Uruguay
+ Vietnam
− Afghanistan
− DR Congo− Ecuador− Saint Lucia
− Mauritania− Rwanda
− Chad
− Togo− Tonga - 2020+ Afghanistan+ DR Congo
+ Dominican Republic+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Chad
+ Tajikistan+ Tonga
− Costa Rica− Guatemala− Honduras
− Lebanon− Marshall Islands
− Niger− Turks and Caicos Islands - 2019
+ Botswana
+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guatemala+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands
+ Suriname
+ Turkmenistan− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bermuda
− Cabo Verde
− Grenada
− Lesotho
− Myanmar
− Mozambique− Malawi− Netherlands
− North Korea - 2018+ Afghanistan
+ United Arab Emirates+ Ecuador+ Myanmar+ Malawi+ North Korea
+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands
+ British Virgin Islands− Botswana− Côte d’Ivoire− Republic of the Congo
− Comoros− Dominican Republic− Kenya− Maldives
− Peru− Sint Maarten− Tajikistan− Vietnam - 2017+ Bermuda
+ Bhutan+ Republic of the Congo+ Comoros
+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Sint Maarten
+ Samoa− Aruba− Angola− DR Congo
− Eritrea− Monaco− Marshall Islands− Panama
− Syria− British Virgin Islands
Not in this dataset · 22 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.
04Provenance
Where it comes from
The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.
1 · Publisher
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
2 · Their file
Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment 2024
3 · Read by this site
September 29, 2026
Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.4 · Stored as
44 files, one per year
Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as tertiary-gender-parity-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv5 · Used on
Its statistic page, and every profile it measures
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 (GER.5T8.GPIA, the adjusted index). Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written.
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.
Licence · checked September 29, 2026
- 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), Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, via Nations Inquiry.
Cite this dataset
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1971–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity
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.
Charted
Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment by countryWho is highest, the map, the spread, who rose and fell, and the records.
Subjects
Near neighbours
- Women, Business and the LawWorld Bank Group · 55 held · 1971–2026
- Women's Political Empowerment IndexV-Dem Institute · 36 held · 1990–2025
- Social Institutions and Gender IndexOECD · 1 held · 2023
07Questions
Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment: questions and answers
What is the Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment?
The gender parity index for tertiary enrolment compares women’s and men’s enrolment in universities and colleges. 1 means parity; below 1, fewer women than men are enrolled; above 1, fewer men than women. UNESCO adjusts it so that a gap in either direction counts the same.
Which years of the Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment can I download?
All 44, from 1971 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.