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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980

Figures for 1980, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980 covers 54 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.824; Oman is lowest, at 0.075. The middle country reads 0.444. Against 1979, 44 values changed (25 up, 19 down), 10 countries joined, 14 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1980

HighestQatar

1.824

LowestOman

0.075

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, 1980, 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 54 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1ArgentinaARGSouth America1.032
2BermudaBMUNorthern America0.952
3United StatesUSANorthern America1.054
4BahrainBHRWestern Asia1.106
5CubaCUBCaribbean0.889
6UruguayURYSouth America1.114
7PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia1.156
8PanamaPANCentral America1.198
9JordanJORWestern Asia0.796
10GuyanaGUYSouth America0.709
11Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.670
12GrenadaGRDCaribbean1.344
13MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia0.612
14HondurasHNDCentral America0.597
15LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.587
16MicronesiaFSMMicronesia0.567
17PeruPERSouth America0.544
18KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.464
19EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.533
20BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.481
21Saint LuciaLCACaribbean1.527
22MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.466
23EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.458
24IraqIRQWestern Asia0.454
25Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean1.564

02In 1980

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Lowest

  1. 54Oman0.075
  2. 53Rwanda0.101
  3. 52Central African Republic0.126
  4. 51Mali0.128
  5. 50Bangladesh0.163

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.444. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031979 → 1980

Since 1979

What changed between 1979 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −14countries joined / left
  • 44values changed, of 44 in both
  • 25 · 19rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Republic of the Congo+ Honduras+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Malawi+ Peru+ Papua New Guinea+ Qatar+ Rwanda+ Senegal− Afghanistan− Benin− Brunei− Haiti− Liberia− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Morocco− Madagascar− Myanmar− Tonga− Tanzania− Vietnam− Zambia

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 54 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) (1980). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980 [data set], describing 1980. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1980

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980?

Qatar, at 1.824, of the 54 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980 describe?

1980.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980 cover?

54.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1980?

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, 1980 the newest?

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

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