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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979

Figures for 1979, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979 covers 58 countries. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is highest, at 1.8544; Mali is lowest, at 0.1321. The middle country reads 0.4244. Against 1978, 38 values changed (23 up, 15 down), 20 countries joined, 12 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1979

HighestSaint Vincent and the Grenadines

1.8544

LowestMali

0.1321

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, 1979, 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 58 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1ArgentinaARGSouth America1.0011
2United StatesUSANorthern America1.0085
3GrenadaGRDCaribbean1.0250
4MyanmarMMRSouth-eastern Asia1.0397
5BahrainBHRWestern Asia0.9469
6UruguayURYSouth America1.0668
7LesothoLSOSouthern Africa0.8664
8BermudaBMUNorthern America1.1423
9PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia1.1542
10PanamaPANCentral America1.1735
11CubaCUBCaribbean0.8211
12GuyanaGUYSouth America0.7988
13JordanJORWestern Asia0.7189
14TongaTONPolynesia0.6735
15Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia0.6162
16MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia0.6150
17Saint LuciaLCACaribbean1.4283
18BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia1.4474
19BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.5450
20KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.4633
21EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.5067
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.4963
23IraqIRQWestern Asia0.4864
24Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.4855
25MicronesiaFSMMicronesia0.4683

02In 1979

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 56Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.8544
  2. 35Saint Kitts and Nevis1.6503
  3. 20Kuwait1.4633
  4. 18Brunei1.4474
  5. 17Saint Lucia1.4283

Lowest

  1. 58Mali0.1321
  2. 57Ethiopia0.1412
  3. 55Bangladesh0.1638
  4. 54Tanzania0.1801
  5. 53Afghanistan0.1847

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.4244. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031978 → 1979

Since 1978

What changed between 1978 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −12countries joined / left
  • 38values changed, of 38 in both
  • 23 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Brunei+ Central African Republic+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Cuba+ Ethiopia+ Micronesia+ Grenada+ Guyana+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Liberia+ Myanmar+ Malaysia+ Philippines+ Eswatini+ Uganda+ Uruguay+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Zambia− Albania− Republic of the Congo− Guinea− Guatemala− Honduras− Iran− Iceland− Mauritania− Rwanda− Senegal− El Salvador− Thailand

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 58 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) (1979). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979 [data set], describing 1979. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1979

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979?

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, at 1.8544, of the 58 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979 describe?

1979.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979 cover?

58.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1979?

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, 1979 the newest?

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

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