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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012

Figures for 2012, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012 covers 141 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.84445; Benin is lowest, at 0.34799. The middle country reads 1.19927. Against 2011, 123 values changed (70 up, 53 down), 18 countries joined, 11 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2012

HighestQatar

1.84445

LowestBenin

0.34799

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, 2012, 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 141 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.00308
2GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.01044
3Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia1.01354
4MexicoMEXCentral America0.98262
5IranIRNSouthern Asia1.02195
6GuatemalaGTMCentral America1.02464
7SyriaSYRWestern Asia0.97490
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.96582
9MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.95451
10AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia1.04552
11IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.05582
12SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.06087
13MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.93907
14Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.07267
15IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.07980
16NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.08034
17Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia1.08167
18SudanSDNNorthern Africa1.08490
19EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.90313
20ColombiaCOLSouth America1.10242
21ChileCHLSouth America1.10623
22ChinaCHNEastern Asia1.11712
23LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.12200
24El SalvadorSLVCentral America1.12613
25UkraineUKREastern Europe1.13002

02In 2012

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 141Qatar1.84445
  2. 140Seychelles1.70966
  3. 134Sint Maarten1.62744
  4. 131Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.59839
  5. 129Saint Lucia1.56475

Lowest

  1. 139Benin0.34799
  2. 138Central African Republic0.34800
  3. 137Vietnam0.34909
  4. 136Togo0.35510
  5. 135Guinea0.36384

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.19927. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032011 → 2012

Since 2011

What changed between 2011 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +18 / −11countries joined / left
  • 123values changed, of 123 in both
  • 70 · 53rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Andorra+ Burundi+ Brazil+ Central African Republic+ Cook Islands+ Dominican Republic+ Ecuador+ Honduras+ Liberia+ Lesotho+ Luxembourg+ Marshall Islands+ North Macedonia+ Namibia+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Sint Maarten+ Tanzania+ South Africa− Afghanistan− Angola− Côte d’Ivoire− Djibouti− Cambodia− Nigeria− Nepal− Oman− Eswatini− Chad− Yemen

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 141 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) (2012). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012 [data set], describing 2012. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2012

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012?

Qatar, at 1.84445, of the 141 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012 describe?

2012.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012 cover?

141.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2012?

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, 2012 the newest?

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

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