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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985

Figures for 1985, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985 covers 55 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.7196; Chad is lowest, at 0.0935. The middle country reads 0.6088. Against 1984, 44 values changed (30 up, 14 down), 11 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1985

HighestQatar

1.7196

LowestChad

0.0935

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, 1985, 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 55 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BarbadosBRBCaribbean0.9763
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa1.0522
3GuyanaGUYSouth America0.9392
4SurinameSURSouth America1.1046
5ArgentinaARGSouth America1.1134
6United StatesUSANorthern America1.1168
7Saint LuciaLCACaribbean0.8773
8AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.8432
9JordanJORWestern Asia0.8367
10CubaCUBCaribbean1.1753
11MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia0.8163
12NicaraguaNICCentral America1.2164
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America0.7833
14BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.7524
15TongaTONPolynesia1.2550
16KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.2700
17PanamaPANCentral America1.2805
18OmanOMNWestern Asia0.7111
19Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia0.6974
20Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.6691
21LebanonLBNWestern Asia0.6545
22Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.6192
23MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.6123
24FijiFJIMelanesia0.6088
25TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.6021

02In 1985

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 45Qatar1.7196
  2. 35Saint Kitts and Nevis1.6400
  3. 30Dominica1.5013
  4. 26Bahrain1.4359
  5. 17Panama1.2805

Lowest

  1. 55Chad0.0935
  2. 54Mali0.1516
  3. 53Tanzania0.1520
  4. 52Rwanda0.1693
  5. 51Republic of the Congo0.1786

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.6088. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −9countries joined / left
  • 44values changed, of 44 in both
  • 30 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahrain+ Fiji+ Guinea+ Laos+ Lebanon+ Mali+ Mozambique+ Nigeria+ Suriname+ Chad+ Uganda− Brunei− Central African Republic− Ethiopia− Gabon− Grenada− Haiti− Iceland− Togo− Zimbabwe

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 55 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) (1985). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1985

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985?

Qatar, at 1.7196, of the 55 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985 cover?

55.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1985?

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, 1985 the newest?

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

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