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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023 covers 128 countries. Cook Islands is highest, at 1.92358; Republic of the Congo is lowest, at 0.66906. The middle country reads 1.25830. Against 2022, 113 values changed (64 up, 49 down), 15 countries joined, 12 left.

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Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment · Data for 2023

HighestCook Islands

1.92358

LowestRepublic of the Congo

0.66906

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, 2023, 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 128 countries · select a heading to sort

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1EgyptEGYNorthern Africa1.00289
2UkraineUKREastern Europe0.98755
3TurkmenistanTKMCentral Asia1.01287
4BhutanBTNSouthern Asia1.01889
5AngolaAGOMiddle Africa0.97718
6MadagascarMDGEastern Africa1.02376
7JapanJPNEastern Asia0.97425
8PakistanPAKSouthern Asia0.97164
9UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia1.02966
10Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia1.03701
11GhanaGHAWestern Africa0.96296
12SenegalSENWestern Africa1.04648
13IndiaINDSouthern Asia1.05453
14TajikistanTJKCentral Asia0.94533
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa0.93480
16GreeceGRCSouthern Europe1.06736
17TürkiyeTURWestern Asia1.07326
18MacauMACEastern Asia1.08257
19Hong KongHKGEastern Asia1.08371
20GermanyDEUWestern Europe1.08463
21RussiaRUSEastern Europe1.08668
22SingaporeSGPSouth-eastern Asia1.09137
23San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe0.89585
24SwitzerlandCHEWestern Europe1.11630
25South KoreaKOREastern Asia0.87342

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 128Cook Islands1.92358
  2. 127Sint Maarten1.77647
  3. 126Qatar1.73056
  4. 125Samoa1.63439
  5. 124Tuvalu1.59516

Lowest

  1. 85Republic of the Congo0.66906
  2. 83Burkina Faso0.67554
  3. 68Kenya0.72314
  4. 61Bangladesh0.74223
  5. 58Laos0.74528

1 is parity; further away in either direction is worse. The middle country reads 1.25830. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +15 / −12countries joined / left
  • 113values changed, of 113 in both
  • 64 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Angola+ Burundi+ Bermuda+ Republic of the Congo+ Cook Islands+ Cuba+ Guatemala+ Guyana+ Kenya+ Nicaragua+ Netherlands+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tuvalu+ Ukraine− Benin− Brazil− Colombia− Ireland− Iran− Maldives− Marshall Islands− Malawi− Namibia− Saudi Arabia− United States− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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 128 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) (2023). Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/tertiary-gender-parity/2023

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07Questions

Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest gender parity in university enrolment in Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023?

Cook Islands, at 1.92358, of the 128 countries in the file.

What year does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023 cover?

128.

Where can I download Gender Parity Index, Tertiary Enrolment, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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