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ST/ESA/STAT/SER.K/WWW/16/Rev.5 22 April 2005
The World's Women reports

Table 4d - Tertiary education

Source | Technical notes

Country	Year	Tertiary-level gross enrolment ratio		Year	Women's share of third level enrolment (%)	Notes
		W	M
Africa
Angola	1999/2000	1	1	1999/2000	39
Benin	1999/2000	1	6	1999/2000	20
Botswana	2001/2002	4	5	2001/2002	45
Burkina Faso	2001/2002	1	2	2001/2002	25
Burundi	2001/2002	1	3	2001/2002	30
Cameroon	2001/2002	4	7	2001/2002	39	(1)
Cape Verde	2001/2002	3	4	2001/2002	47
Central African Republic	1999/2000	1	3	1999/2000	16
Chad	1999/2000	..	2	1999/2000	15
Comoros	1999/2000	1	1	1999/2000	42	(1)
Congo	1999/2000	2	8	1999/2000	24
Djibouti	2001/2002	1	1	2001/2002	45
Equatorial Guinea	1999/2000	2	4	1999/2000	30
Eritrea	2001/2002	..	3	2001/2002	13
Ethiopia	2001/2002	1	3	2001/2002	26
Ghana	2001/2002	2	5	2001/2002	28
Guinea-Bissau	1999/2000	..	1	1999/2000	16
Kenya	2001/2002	2	4	2001/2002	35	(1)
Lesotho	2001/2002	3	2	2001/2002	58
Liberia	1999/2000	15	19	1999/2000	43
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	2001/2002	61	56	2001/2002	51
Madagascar	2001/2002	2	2	2001/2002	45
Mauritania	2001/2002	1	5	2001/2002	21
Mauritius	2001/2002	13	10	2001/2002	56
Morocco	2001/2002	9	11	2001/2002	44	(1)
Mozambique	1999/2000	..	1	1999/2000	44	(1)
Namibia	2001/2002	7	8	2001/2002	46
Niger	2001/2002	1	2	2001/2002	25	(1)
Rwanda	2001/2002	1	3	2001/2002	34	(1)
Sao Tome and Principe	2001/2002	1	1	2001/2002	36	(1)
Sierra Leone	2001/2002	1	3	2001/2002	29	(1)
South Africa	2001/2002	16	14	2001/2002	53
Swaziland	2001/2002	5	4	2001/2002	55
Togo	1999/2000	1	6	1999/2000	17
Tunisia	2000/2001	21	22	2000/2001	48	(1)
Uganda	2001/2002	2	4	2001/2002	34	(1)
United Republic of Tanzania	2000/2001	..	1	2000/2001	13
Zambia	2000/2001	2	3	2000/2001	32	(1)
Zimbabwe	2001/2002	3	6	2001/2002	37	(1)
America, North
Barbados	2000/2001	52	20	2000/2001	71
Canada	2001/2002	66	50	2001/2002	56	(1)
Costa Rica	2001/2002	22	19	2001/2002	53
Cuba	2001/2002	30	24	2001/2002	54
El Salvador	2001/2002	18	15	2001/2002	54
Honduras	2001/2002	16	12	2001/2002	56	(1)
Jamaica	2001/2002	24	11	2001/2002	69
Mexico	2001/2002	21	22	2001/2002	49
Netherlands Antilles	2001/2002	17	11	2001/2002	60
Panama	2001/2002	42	25	1999/2000	62	(1)
Saint Lucia	2001/2002	2	1	2001/2002	77
Trinidad and Tobago	2001/2002	9	6	2001/2002	60
United States of America	2001/2002	94	70	2001/2002	56
America, South
Argentina	2001/2002	67	45	2001/2002	59
Brazil	2001/2002	21	16	2001/2002	56
Chile	2002/2003	41	44	2000/2001	47
Colombia	2001/2002	25	23	2001/2002	52
Paraguay	2001/2002	22	16	2001/2002	57
Peru	2001/2002	31	32	2001/2002	49	(1)
Suriname	2001/2002	15	9	2001/2002	62
Uruguay	2001/2002	48	27	2001/2002	64
Venezuela	2001/2002	31	23	2001/2002	57	(1)
Asia
Armenia	2001/2002	29	25	2001/2002	54
Azerbaijan	2001/2002	24	24	2001/2002	52
Bangladesh	2001/2002	4	8	2001/2002	32
Bhutan	..	..	..	2001/2002	34	(1)
Brunei Darussalam	2001/2002	17	10	2001/2002	63
Cambodia	2001/2002	2	4	2001/2002	29
China	..	..	..	..	..
Hong Kong SAR	2001/2002	26	26	2001/2002	50
Macao SAR	2001/2002	46	90	2001/2002	37
Cyprus	2001/2002	28	23	2001/2002	55
Georgia	2001/2002	37	36	2001/2002	50
India	2001/2002	9	13	2001/2002	39
Indonesia	2001/2002	14	16	2001/2002	46
Iran (Islamic Republic of)	2001/2002	20	20	2001/2002	49
Iraq	2001/2002	10	18	2001/2002	34	(1)
Israel	2001/2002	67	49	2001/2002	57
Japan	2001/2002	45	53	2001/2002	45
Jordan	2001/2002	31	31	2001/2002	49
Kazakhstan	2001/2002	43	34	2001/2002	56
Kyrgyzstan	2001/2002	48	42	2001/2002	53
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2001/2002	4	7	2001/2002	37
Lebanon	2001/2002	48	42	2001/2002	53
Malaysia	2000/2001	28	26	2000/2001	51
Mongolia	2001/2002	44	25	2001/2002	63
Myanmar	2000/2001	15	8	2000/2001	63	(1)
Nepal	2001/2002	2	8	2001/2002	21
Occupied Palestinian Territory	2001/2002	30	31	2001/2002	48
Oman	2001/2002	10	6	2001/2002	58	(1)
Philippines	2001/2002	35	27	2001/2002	56
Qatar	2001/2002	34	13	2001/2002	73
Republic of Korea	2002/2003	64	105	2001/2002	36
Saudi Arabia	2001/2002	26	18	2001/2002	59	(1)
Tajikistan	2001/2002	7	22	2001/2002	24
Thailand	2001/2002	38	35	2001/2002	52
Timor-Leste	2001/2002	15	10	2001/2002	53
Turkey	2001/2002	21	29	2001/2002	41
Viet Nam	2001/2002	9	11	2001/2002	43
Yemen	1999/2000	5	17	1999/2000	21	(1)
Europe
Albania	2000/2001	19	11	2000/2001	61
Andorra	..	..	..	2001/2002	50
Austria	2001/2002	53	44	2001/2002	53
Belarus	2001/2002	70	51	2001/2002	57
Belgium	2001/2002	65	55	2001/2002	53
Bulgaria	2001/2002	42	34	2001/2002	54
Croatia	2001/2002	39	34	2001/2002	52
Czech Republic	2001/2002	35	32	2001/2002	51
Denmark	2001/2002	73	52	2001/2002	57
Estonia	2001/2002	80	48	2001/2002	61
Finland	2001/2002	95	77	2001/2002	54
France	2001/2002	60	47	2001/2002	55
Greece	2001/2002	72	65	2001/2002	51
Hungary	2001/2002	50	39	2001/2002	55
Iceland	2001/2002	70	39	2001/2002	63
Ireland	2001/2002	56	44	2001/2002	55
Italy	2001/2002	61	46	2001/2002	56
Latvia	2001/2002	85	52	2001/2002	62
Lithuania	2001/2002	79	50	2001/2002	60
Luxembourg	2001/2002	12	11	2001/2002	53	(1)
Malta	2001/2002	29	20	2001/2002	57
Netherlands	2001/2002	59	55	2001/2002	51
Norway	2001/2002	90	58	2001/2002	60
Poland	2001/2002	70	49	2001/2002	58
Portugal	2001/2002	62	45	2001/2002	57
Republic of Moldova	2001/2002	33	25	2001/2002	57
Romania	2001/2002	34	27	2001/2002	54
Russian Federation	2001/2002	80	60	2001/2002	57
San Marino	..	..	..	1999/2000	58
Serbia and Montenegro	2000/2001	39	33	2000/2001	54
Slovakia	2001/2002	34	30	2001/2002	52
Slovenia	2001/2002	78	55	2001/2002	58
Spain	2001/2002	64	54	2001/2002	53
Sweden	2001/2002	93	60	2001/2002	59
Switzerland	2001/2002	39	49	2001/2002	43
The FYR of Macedonia	2001/2002	31	24	2001/2002	55
Ukraine	2001/2002	63	54	2001/2002	53
United Kingdom	2001/2002	70	57	2001/2002	55
Oceania
Australia	2002/2003	82	67	2001/2002	54
Marshall Islands	..	..	..	2001/2002	56
New Zealand	2002/2003	90	59	2001/2002	59
Palau	2000/2001	54	26	2001/2002	63	(2)
Samoa	2001/2002	6	7	2001/2002	44	(1)
Tonga	2001/2002	4	3	2001/2002	58	(1)

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Sources

Tertiary level enrolment ratio

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics website (http://www.uis.unesco.org), table Gross Enrolment Ratios, tertiary, accessed on 10 November 2004.

Women's share of third level enrolment

Data provided by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Institute for Statistics, on 29 November 2004.

Footnotes

(1)	UIS estimation.
(2)	Women's share of 3rd level enrolment is UIS estimation.

Technical notes

Statistics on enrolment are compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS) from data provided by national Governments in response to UIS questionnaires.

The 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97) defines tertiary education as education programmes at ISCED levels 5 and 6. Education at ISCED level 5 includes programmes that are theoretically based or research preparatory (history, philosophy, mathematics, etc.) or giving access to professions with high skills requirements (e.g., medicine, dentistry, architecture, etc.), and those programmes that are practical, technical or occupationally specific. Level 6 are tertiary programmes that lead to the award of an advanced research qualification. The programmes are therefore devoted to advanced study and original research and are not based on course-work only.

The tertiary gross enrolment ratio is defined as enrolment at third level, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the population in the theoretical school age group corresponding to this level of education. For the tertiary level, the population is the five-year age group following on from the secondary-school leaving age. The tertiary gross enrolment ratio is used to show the general level of participation in this level of education.

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