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University Enrollment, Women and Men: Latin America and the World
Gross enrollment ratio in tertiary education, %, yearly
2 of 4 series are above their level a year earlier·2 of 4 are at a five-year high
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics via the World Bank (CC BY 4.0). Gross ratio: enrolled students of any age as a share of the five-year age group after secondary school, so it can exceed one hundred. Regional and world figures are World Bank weighted averages and include estimates.
Women enroll in higher education at higher rates than men across Latin America and the Caribbean and in the world as a whole, and the gap has widened over two decades.
What this chart reads
- Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment, Women · % grossas “Women, Latin America & Caribbean”latest 2024-12-31
- Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment, Men · % grossas “Men, Latin America & Caribbean”latest 2024-12-31
- World · Tertiary Enrollment, Women · % grossas “Women, world”latest 2024-12-31
- World · Tertiary Enrollment, Men · % grossas “Men, world”latest 2024-12-31
Sources
Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment, Women · % gross. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI License_Type). Palanor stores the World Bank's values unchanged and reads them monthly with.
Latin America & Caribbean · Tertiary Enrollment, Men · % gross. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.MA. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI License_Type). Palanor stores the World Bank's values unchanged and reads them monthly with.
World · Tertiary Enrollment, Women · % gross. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.FE. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI License_Type). Palanor stores the World Bank's values unchanged and reads them monthly with.
World · Tertiary Enrollment, Men · % gross. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS): https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR.MA. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (the indicator's WDI License_Type). Palanor stores the World Bank's values unchanged and reads them monthly with.
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