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The University Gender Gap Across Latin America
Women’s minus men’s gross tertiary enrollment ratio, percentage points, latest year available
Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where a new leader takes first place.
Palanor calculation from UNESCO Institute for Statistics data via the World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Above zero, women enroll at a higher rate than men. The latest year differs by country, and countries with too few years of data are left out.
In almost every Latin American and Caribbean country with data, women now enroll in universities at higher rates than men.
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- Argentina · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Argentina”
- Barbados · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Barbados”latest 2025-12-31
- Belize · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Belize”latest 2024-12-31
- Brazil · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Brazil”latest 2024-12-31
- Chile · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Chile”latest 2024-12-31
- Colombia · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Colombia”behind
- Cuba · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Cuba”latest 2024-12-31
- Dominican Republic · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Dominican Republic”latest 2024-12-31
- Ecuador · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Ecuador”
- El Salvador · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “El Salvador”latest 2024-12-31
- Guatemala · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Guatemala”
- Guyana · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Guyana”latest 2024-12-31
- Honduras · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Honduras”latest 2024-12-31
- Mexico · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Mexico”latest 2024-12-31
- Nicaragua · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Nicaragua”
- Panama · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Panama”
- St. Lucia · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “St. Lucia”
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “St. Vincent and the Grenadines”behind
- Suriname · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Suriname”latest 2024-12-31
- Trinidad and Tobago · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Trinidad and Tobago”latest 2024-12-31
- Uruguay · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Uruguay”
- Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “Latin America & Caribbean”latest 2024-12-31
- World · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men)as “World”latest 2024-12-31
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Argentina · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Barbados · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Belize · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Brazil · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Chile · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Colombia · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Cuba · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Dominican Republic · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Ecuador · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
El Salvador · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Guatemala · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Guyana · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Honduras · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Mexico · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Nicaragua · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Panama · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
St. Lucia · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
St. Vincent and the Grenadines · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Suriname · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Trinidad and Tobago · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Uruguay · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
World · Tertiary Enrollment Gender Gap · pts (women − men). Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE and SE.TER.ENRR.MA (CC BY 4.0). Palanor calculation in src/lib/health/worldbank-health.ts.
Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.