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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987

Figures for 1987, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987 covers 51 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.7529; Tanzania is lowest, at 0.1405. The middle country reads 0.6191. Against 1986, 40 values changed (26 up, 14 down), 11 countries joined, 14 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 1987

HighestQatar

1.7529

LowestTanzania

0.1405

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, 1987, 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 51 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1JordanJORWestern Asia0.9741
2VenezuelaVENSouth America1.0628
3AlbaniaALBSouthern Europe0.9301
4SurinameSURSouth America1.0844
5ArgentinaARGSouth America1.1425
6United StatesUSANorthern America1.1526
7NicaraguaNICCentral America1.1659
8BotswanaBWASouthern Africa0.7920
9BruneiBRNSouth-eastern Asia1.2088
10Saint LuciaLCACaribbean1.2204
11CubaCUBCaribbean1.2302
12Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia0.7573
13OmanOMNWestern Asia0.7398
14KuwaitKWTWestern Asia1.2657
15LesothoLSOSouthern Africa1.2876
16MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.6981
17Trinidad and TobagoTTOCaribbean0.6752
18MauritiusMUSEastern Africa0.6667
19Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean0.6646
20PanamaPANCentral America1.3503
21IraqIRQWestern Asia0.6385
22BahrainBHRWestern Asia1.3781
23TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa0.6191
24SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.5629
25Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean1.4636

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 41Qatar1.7529
  2. 33United States Virgin Islands1.6165
  3. 25Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.4636
  4. 22Bahrain1.3781
  5. 20Panama1.3503

Lowest

  1. 51Tanzania0.1405
  2. 50Togo0.1474
  3. 49Mali0.1530
  4. 48Guinea0.1576
  5. 47Benin0.1844

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 0.6191. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +11 / −14countries joined / left
  • 40values changed, of 40 in both
  • 26 · 14rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Gabon+ Kenya+ Liberia+ Saint Lucia+ Mozambique+ Niger+ Panama+ Somalia+ Togo− Afghanistan− Central African Republic− Republic of the Congo− Fiji− Guyana− Haiti− Iceland− Laos− Sri Lanka− Papua New Guinea− Russia− El Salvador− Uganda− 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 51 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) (1987). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/1987

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987?

Qatar, at 1.7529, of the 51 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987 cover?

51.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 1987?

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, 1987 the newest?

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

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