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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005

Figures for 2005, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005 covers 116 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.7709; Chad is lowest, at 0.0639. The middle country reads 1.1323. Against 2004, 107 values changed (58 up, 49 down), 9 countries joined, 12 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2005

HighestQatar

1.7709

LowestChad

0.0639

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, 2005, 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 116 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1PalestinePSEWestern Asia0.9975
2Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.0058
3PeruPERSouth America1.0157
4GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia0.9691
5MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.0333
6MexicoMEXCentral America0.9657
7ChileCHLSouth America0.9567
8ColombiaCOLSouth America1.0510
9EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa0.9476
10IranIRNSouthern Asia1.0594
11SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.0705
12NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.0709
13AndorraANDSouthern Europe1.0845
14ChinaCHNEastern Asia0.9142
15MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.9053
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America1.0968
=17Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa1.1109
=17OmanOMNWestern Asia1.1109
19CyprusCYPWestern Asia1.1204
20ParaguayPRYSouth America1.1243
21SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.8750
22ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia1.1302
23PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.8663
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.8656
25GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.1344

02In 2005

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 114Qatar1.7709
  2. 113Bahrain1.7188
  3. 111Anguilla1.6701
  4. 109Saint Lucia1.6492
  5. 103Brunei1.5539

Lowest

  1. 116Chad0.0639
  2. 115Guinea0.2240
  3. 112Mauritania0.3214
  4. 110Ethiopia0.3328
  5. 108Yemen0.3680

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.1323. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032004 → 2005

Since 2004

What changed between 2004 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −12countries joined / left
  • 107values changed, of 107 in both
  • 58 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Nepal0.3796 → 0.5747+0.1951
  • Cyprus0.9668 → 1.1204+0.1536
  • Algeria1.1069 → 1.2439+0.1370
  • Andorra0.9678 → 1.0845+0.1167
  • Laos0.6333 → 0.7238+0.0906

Fell most

+ Burkina Faso+ Bahrain+ Bosnia and Herzegovina+ Bhutan+ Ghana+ Lesotho+ Namibia+ United States+ Vietnam− Afghanistan− Costa Rica− Eritrea− Gambia− Honduras− Indonesia− Kuwait− Rwanda− Trinidad and Tobago− Uganda− British Virgin Islands− Vanuatu

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

  • 115 distinct values among 116

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 16 decimals. 2 countries share 1.1109. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 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 116 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) (2005). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005 [data set], describing 2005. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2005

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005?

Qatar, at 1.7709, of the 116 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005 describe?

2005.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005 cover?

116.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2005?

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, 2005 the newest?

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

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