Panama · Tertiary Enrollment, Men · % gross

## What this measures

Men enrolled in tertiary education (universities, colleges and other post-secondary programmes, ISCED levels 5–8) in Panama, regardless of age, as a percent of the male population in the five-year age group after secondary school. Annual from 1970 to 2023 (13 years missing); each value is dated December 31 of the year the school year starts in, as UIS reports it.

## Why it matters

Who reaches higher education decides the skills of the next workforce. In most of Latin America and in the world as a whole, women now enroll at higher rates than men, a reversal that shapes labor markets, earnings gaps and family formation.

## How to read it

A gross ratio, so it can exceed 100 where many students are older than the reference ages or study part time. 1970: 7.2%; 2023: 41.6%. Compare women and men with education.wb.tertiary_enrollment_gap.pan (a Palanor calculation).

## What it does not say

Enrollment, not graduation or quality: dropout rates and the mix of short programmes differ widely by country. Recent years are often UIS estimates and are revised.

## 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 /api/cron/worldbank-sync.