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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972

Figures for 1972, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972 covers 57 countries. Belize is highest, at 1.476; Chad is lowest, at 0.000. The middle country reads 0.281. Against 1971, 47 values changed (29 up, 18 down), 10 countries joined, 10 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1972

HighestBelize

1.476

LowestChad

0.000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end. 1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972, 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 57 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BarbadosBRBCaribbean0.868
2ArgentinaARGSouth America0.862
3PanamaPANCentral America0.782
4Dominican RepublicDOMCaribbean0.773
5KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.245
6United StatesUSANorthern America0.709
7JamaicaJAMCaribbean0.669
8BahrainBHRWestern Asia1.378
9MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia0.608
10Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.579
11FijiFJIMelanesia0.570
12CubaCUBCaribbean0.542
13BelizeBLZCentral America1.476
14AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.506
15NicaraguaNICCentral America0.494
16PeruPERSouth America0.490
17JordanJORWestern Asia0.488
18IranIRNSouthern Asia0.454
19IcelandISLNorthern Europe0.385
20IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.382
21EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.381
22EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.374
23LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.345
24PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.318
25LiberiaLBRWestern Africa0.311

02In 1972

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 13Belize1.476
  2. 8Bahrain1.378
  3. 5Kuwait1.245
  4. 1Barbados0.868
  5. 2Argentina0.862

Lowest

  1. 57Chad0.000
  2. 56DR Congo0.068
  3. 55Republic of the Congo0.074
  4. 54Burundi0.075
  5. 53Ethiopia0.078

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.281. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031971 → 1972

Since 1971

What changed between 1971 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −10countries joined / left
  • 47values changed, of 47 in both
  • 29 · 18rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Bangladesh+ Botswana+ Indonesia+ Cambodia+ Myanmar+ Somalia+ Eswatini+ Chad+ Togo− Guinea− India− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Madagascar− Mali− Philippines− Russia− Rwanda− Samoa

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

    1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 57 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) (1972). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972 [data set], describing 1972. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1972

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972?

Belize, at 1.476, of the 57 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972 describe?

1972.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972 cover?

57.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972?

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

Is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1972 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2024.

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