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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986

Figures for 1986, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986 covers 54 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.712; Central African Republic is lowest, at 0.112. The middle country reads 0.572. Against 1985, 40 values changed (25 up, 15 down), 14 countries joined, 15 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1986

HighestQatar

1.712

LowestCentral African Republic

0.112

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, 1986, 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, 1986: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GuyanaGUYSouth America0.896
2LesothoLSOSouthern Africa1.106
3ArgentinaARGSouth America1.131
4United StatesUSANorthern America1.134
5JordanJORWestern Asia0.863
6AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.857
7SurinameSURSouth America1.181
8CubaCUBCaribbean1.189
9BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia1.213
10IcelandISLNorthern Europe1.224
11NicaraguaNICCentral America1.233
12Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean0.764
13El SalvadorSLVCentral America0.763
14Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.742
15KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.272
16RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.279
17VenezuelaVENSouth America0.714
18Sri LankaLKASouthern Asia0.708
19OmanOMNWestern Asia0.663
20Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.631
21MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.630
22TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.592
23IraqIRQWestern Asia0.573
24LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia0.571
25SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.550

02In 1986

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.572. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031985 → 1986

Since 1985

What changed between 1985 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −15countries joined / left
  • 40values changed, of 40 in both
  • 25 · 15rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Afghanistan+ Brunei+ Central African Republic+ Ethiopia+ Haiti+ Iceland+ Morocco+ Madagascar+ Pakistan+ Russia+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Venezuela+ United States Virgin Islands+ Zimbabwe− Barbados− Botswana− Dominica− Indonesia− Kenya− Lebanon− Saint Lucia− Mozambique− Malaysia− Niger− Panama− Senegal− Sierra Leone− Chad− Tonga

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) (1986). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986 [data set], describing 1986. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1986

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986?

Qatar, at 1.712, of the 54 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986 describe?

1986.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986 cover?

54.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1986?

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, 1986 the newest?

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

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