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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006

Figures for 2006, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006 covers 117 countries. Saint Lucia is highest, at 1.8208; Guinea is lowest, at 0.2654. The middle country reads 1.1559. Against 2005, 107 values changed (66 up, 41 down), 10 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2006

HighestSaint Lucia

1.8208

LowestGuinea

0.2654

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, 2006, 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 117 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1ChileCHLSouth America0.9966
2MauritiusMUSEastern Africa1.0100
3MexicoMEXCentral America0.9676
4Hong KongHKGEastern Asia0.9668
5GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.0400
6ChinaCHNEastern Asia0.9589
7AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia1.0449
8PeruPERSouth America1.0493
9VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia0.9484
10ColombiaCOLSouth America1.0586
11IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia0.9362
12CyprusCYPWestern Asia1.0739
13NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.0760
14ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia1.0824
15IranIRNSouthern Asia1.0895
16El SalvadorSLVCentral America1.0942
17SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe0.9008
18OmanOMNWestern Asia1.1016
19MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.8965
20SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.8959
21LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.1068
22MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.8877
23SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.1135
24PalestinePSEWestern Asia1.1157
25EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.8818

02In 2006

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 117Saint Lucia1.8208
  2. 116Qatar1.8104
  3. 115Anguilla1.7845
  4. 113Bahrain1.7174
  5. 107Bermuda1.5786

Lowest

  1. 114Guinea0.2654
  2. 112Central African Republic0.2934
  3. 111Benin0.3212
  4. 110Mauritania0.3398
  5. 109Niger0.3812

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.1559. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032005 → 2006

Since 2005

What changed between 2005 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −9countries joined / left
  • 107values changed, of 107 in both
  • 66 · 41rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Azerbaijan+ Benin+ Bermuda+ Central African Republic+ Cayman Islands+ Indonesia+ Kazakhstan+ Luxembourg+ Senegal+ Uganda− Ethiopia− Fiji− Iraq− Kenya− Nigeria− Paraguay− Chad− Tanzania− United States

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 117 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) (2006). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006 [data set], describing 2006. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2006

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006?

Saint Lucia, at 1.8208, of the 117 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006 describe?

2006.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006 cover?

117.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2006?

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, 2006 the newest?

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

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