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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019

Figures for 2019, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019 covers 129 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.88729; Benin is lowest, at 0.48320. The middle country reads 1.20406. Against 2018, 122 values changed (88 up, 34 down), 7 countries joined, 11 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2019

HighestQatar

1.88729

LowestBenin

0.48320

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, 2019, 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 129 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.98547
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.98087
3JapanJPNEastern Asia0.97671
4MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.03470
5EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.03567
6GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.03829
7TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.95130
8GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.05114
9IranIRNSouthern Asia0.94835
10BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.05656
11MexicoMEXCentral America1.05839
12GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.06400
13SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.06560
14IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.07898
15Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.08962
16Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia1.10484
17IndonesiaIDNSouth-eastern Asia1.10868
18NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.10917
19Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia1.11391
20SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.11857
21UkraineUKREastern Europe1.11880
22BelarusBLREastern Europe1.12092
23LuxembourgLUXWestern Europe1.12335
24ColombiaCOLSouth America1.12551
25LaosLAOSouth-eastern Asia1.12590

02In 2019

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 129Qatar1.88729
  2. 128Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.66786
  3. 127Seychelles1.60850
  4. 126Maldives1.60034
  5. 125Kuwait1.54170

Lowest

  1. 121Benin0.48320
  2. 118Togo0.53121
  3. 116Burkina Faso0.55370
  4. 115Mauritania0.55483
  5. 113Liechtenstein0.56655

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20406. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

What changed between 2018 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +7 / −11countries joined / left
  • 122values changed, of 122 in both
  • 88 · 34rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Botswana+ Côte d’Ivoire+ Guatemala+ Maldives+ Marshall Islands+ Suriname+ Turkmenistan− Afghanistan− Burundi− Bermuda− Cabo Verde− Grenada− Lesotho− Myanmar− Mozambique− Malawi− Netherlands− North Korea

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 129 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) (2019). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2019

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019?

Qatar, at 1.88729, of the 129 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019 describe?

2019.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019 cover?

129.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2019?

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, 2019 the newest?

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

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