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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017

Figures for 2017, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017 covers 135 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.89764; Benin is lowest, at 0.44382. The middle country reads 1.20256. Against 2016, 125 values changed (82 up, 43 down), 10 countries joined, 9 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2017

HighestQatar

1.89764

LowestBenin

0.44382

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, 2017, 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 135 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1GreeceGRCSouthern Europe0.98883
2IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.01344
3MoroccoMARNorthern Africa0.97615
4MexicoMEXCentral America1.02585
5BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.03169
6EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.96740
7JapanJPNEastern Asia0.96153
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.04078
9SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.04795
10MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.95175
11ComorosCOMEastern Africa0.94428
12FijiFJIMelanesia1.05873
13LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.05894
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia0.94079
15PeruPERSouth America1.07524
16GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.07793
17LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.07864
18Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.09769
19NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.09835
20IrelandIRLNorthern Europe1.10132
21TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.89501
22VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia1.10749
23RwandaRWAEastern Africa0.88717
24IranIRNSouthern Asia0.88562
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.11952

02In 2017

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 135Qatar1.89764
  2. 134Sint Maarten1.68941
  3. 133Maldives1.67078
  4. 132Seychelles1.64388
  5. 131Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.63211

Lowest

  1. 130Benin0.44382
  2. 129Mauritania0.45189
  3. 127Togo0.46682
  4. 125Niger0.49196
  5. 122Burkina Faso0.51341

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20256. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032016 → 2017

Since 2016

What changed between 2016 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +10 / −9countries joined / left
  • 125values changed, of 125 in both
  • 82 · 43rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bermuda+ Bhutan+ Republic of the Congo+ Comoros+ Cambodia+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ North Macedonia+ Sint Maarten+ Samoa− Aruba− Angola− DR Congo− Eritrea− Monaco− Marshall Islands− Panama− Syria− British Virgin Islands

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 135 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) (2017). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017 [data set], describing 2017. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2017

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017?

Qatar, at 1.89764, of the 135 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017 describe?

2017.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017 cover?

135.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2017?

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, 2017 the newest?

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

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