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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020

Figures for 2020, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020 covers 131 countries. Qatar is highest, at 1.88185; Afghanistan is lowest, at 0.38092. The middle country reads 1.20680. Against 2019, 122 values changed (83 up, 39 down), 9 countries joined, 7 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2020

HighestQatar

1.88185

LowestAfghanistan

0.38092

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, 2020, 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 131 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1IranIRNSouthern Asia0.98833
2PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.98717
3MadagascarMDGEastern Africa0.98510
4EgyptEGYNorthern Africa0.98499
5JapanJPNEastern Asia0.98329
6TürkiyeTURWestern Asia0.98248
7NepalNPLSouthern Asia1.05930
8GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.06133
9MoroccoMARNorthern Africa1.06234
10AndorraANDSouthern Europe1.06422
11GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.07238
12MexicoMEXCentral America1.07975
13GeorgiaGEOWestern Asia1.08413
14SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.08488
15BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.08729
16IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.08793
17UkraineUKREastern Europe1.09394
18Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.09636
19SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.10067
20UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia0.89113
21GhanaGHAWestern Africa0.87855
22BelarusBLREastern Europe1.12301
23CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia1.12482
24TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia0.87382
25NetherlandsNLDWestern Europe1.12840

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 131Qatar1.88185
  2. 130Maldives1.64417
  3. 129Saint Vincent and the Grenadines1.62309
  4. 126Seychelles1.60199
  5. 125Tonga1.54152

Lowest

  1. 128Afghanistan0.38092
  2. 127Chad0.39448
  3. 118Benin0.52001
  4. 116Burkina Faso0.54523
  5. 113Mauritania0.56597

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.20680. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +9 / −7countries joined / left
  • 122values changed, of 122 in both
  • 83 · 39rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Samoa1.41877 → 1.24102−0.17775
  • Cambodia1.21834 → 1.12482−0.09353
  • Andorra1.15095 → 1.06422−0.08673
  • Cameroon0.86835 → 0.79686−0.07149
  • Egypt1.03567 → 0.98499−0.05068
+ Afghanistan+ DR Congo+ Dominican Republic+ Malawi+ Netherlands+ Panama+ Chad+ Tajikistan+ Tonga− Costa Rica− Guatemala− Honduras− Lebanon− Marshall Islands− Niger− Turks and Caicos 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 131 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) (2020). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2020

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020?

Qatar, at 1.88185, of the 131 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020 cover?

131.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2020?

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, 2020 the newest?

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

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