Statizoid

Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programmes, tertiary (%) by country

Female share of graduates in the given field of education, tertiary is the number of female graduates expressed as a percentage of the total number of graduates in the given field of education from tertiary education.

Countries reporting
92
Highest
82.8%
Guyana
Lowest
26.4%
Liechtenstein
Median
64.8%
Years covered
22
1998–2019
Data points
1,054

What the numbers show

Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programmes, tertiary (%) is currently reported for 92 countries. The highest value is 82.8% in Guyana; the lowest is 26.4% in Liechtenstein.

The median across all reporting countries is 64.8%, and the mean is 62.4%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 51 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Eritrea (up 157.0%), and the largest decrease in Bangladesh (down 32.3%).

Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Guyana 82.8% 2012 up 19.3% rising
2 Seychelles 77.0% 2018 up 11.8% flat
3 Estonia 73.1% 2017 down 5.2% flat
4 Qatar 73.1% 2018 up 3.6% falling
5 Lithuania 72.9% 2017 down 3.9% flat
6 Finland 72.6% 2017 down 5.7% flat
7 Sweden 72.4% 2017 down 1.0% flat
8 Belarus 72.2% 2018 up 52.1% rising
9 Latvia 72.0% 2017 down 6.9% rising
10 Poland 71.7% 2017 up 0.4% flat
11 Slovenia 71.5% 2017 up 2.2% rising
12 Iceland 70.9% 2012 up 4.7% flat
13 Namibia 70.2% 2017 up 7.4% rising
14 Aruba 70.0% 2016 down 12.6% falling
14 Andorra 70.0% 2018 up 17.9% falling
16 Slovakia 70.0% 2017 down 0.1% rising
17 Algeria 69.8% 2018 up 8.1% rising
18 Czechia 69.7% 2017 up 3.0% rising
19 Hungary 69.5% 2017 down 2.3% rising
20 Panama 69.0% 2016 down 5.9% flat
21 Puerto Rico 69.0% 2016 down 4.0% falling
22 Brunei 68.8% 2018 down 0.2% flat
23 Mongolia 68.8% 2018 down 0.6% flat
24 Oman 68.7% 2018 up 4.3% flat
25 Cyprus 68.6% 2017 up 9.2% flat
26 Bahrain 67.8% 2018 down 6.1% falling
27 Albania 67.7% 2018 up 2.8% falling
28 Croatia 67.3% 2017 up 4.4% rising
29 Honduras 67.3% 2018 down 3.4% flat
30 Belgium 67.1% 2017 up 1.4% rising
31 Costa Rica 67.0% 2018 down 3.3% flat
32 Uruguay 67.0% 2017 down 6.1% flat
33 Bulgaria 66.8% 2017 up 2.8% flat
34 Moldova 66.8% 2018 — flat
35 Chile 66.8% 2017 up 5.0% rising
36 Malaysia 66.4% 2018 down 5.0% flat
37 Portugal 66.2% 2017 down 5.7% falling
38 Norway 66.2% 2017 down 2.3% flat
39 Brazil 65.9% 2017 up 2.2% flat
40 Greece 65.9% 2017 up 3.6% flat
41 Romania 65.6% 2016 up 0.7% rising
42 Serbia 65.3% 2018 up 0.0% flat
43 New Zealand 65.2% 2017 down 0.8% flat
44 Kyrgyzstan 65.0% 2018 up 1.2% rising
45 Canada 65.0% 2016 — flat
46 Armenia 64.8% 2018 down 2.9% falling
47 Bermuda 64.8% 2018 down 14.1% falling
48 France 64.5% 2016 down 1.3% flat
49 El Salvador 64.3% 2018 down 4.7% flat
50 Italy 64.2% 2016 down 1.4% rising
51 Germany 64.2% 2017 up 2.3% flat
52 United Kingdom 64.1% 2016 down 2.6% flat
53 Spain 63.8% 2017 down 7.6% falling
54 United States 63.7% 2016 up 0.4% flat
55 Australia 63.6% 2017 up 3.1% flat
56 Georgia 63.6% 2019 down 1.6% rising
57 Azerbaijan 63.3% 2018 up 11.3% rising
58 Palestine 63.2% 2018 up 3.9% rising
59 Ecuador 63.0% 2016 up 3.8% flat
60 Colombia 63.0% 2018 up 2.3% flat
61 Denmark 62.3% 2017 down 0.7% flat
62 South Korea 62.1% 2017 up 3.1% flat
63 Macao 61.9% 2018 up 23.5% rising
64 Malta 61.7% 2017 up 1.4% rising
65 Ukraine 61.7% 2018 down 4.5% flat
66 Netherlands 61.4% 2017 down 3.1% flat
67 Mexico 61.2% 2017 up 0.3% flat
68 Argentina 60.6% 2011 down 9.9% falling
69 North Macedonia 60.5% 2017 down 13.1% falling
70 Lebanon 60.2% 2011 up 0.8% flat
71 Ireland 59.6% 2016 down 10.9% falling
72 Vietnam 59.2% 2016 up 21.3% rising
73 Saudi Arabia 57.6% 2018 down 0.7% flat
74 Switzerland 57.2% 2017 up 5.8% rising
75 Laos 57.2% 2018 up 24.9% rising
76 Luxembourg 57.1% 2016 up 12.1% rising
77 United Arab Emirates 55.8% 2017 down 11.5% falling
78 Madagascar 55.3% 2018 up 7.3% rising
79 Eswatini 55.0% 2006 up 0.4% rising
80 India 53.9% 2018 up 3.6% flat
81 Turkey 52.9% 2014 up 7.0% rising
82 Mozambique 52.0% 2018 up 9.7% rising
83 Morocco 51.3% 2017 up 21.2% rising
84 Iran 49.3% 2017 down 17.3% falling
85 Cambodia 47.7% 2015 up 50.4% rising
86 Burkina Faso 45.0% 2018 up 46.9% rising
87 Eritrea 40.7% 2016 up 157.0% volatile
88 Niger 34.0% 2018 — rising
89 Burundi 31.3% 2017 up 12.7% falling
90 Bangladesh 28.9% 2018 down 32.3% falling
91 Ethiopia 28.2% 2010 up 23.3% rising
92 Liechtenstein 26.4% 2012 up 58.4% rising

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology by country. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/stat/female-share-of-graduates-in-other-fields-than-science-technology-engineering-and/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/stat/female-share-of-graduates-in-other-fields-than-science-technology-engineering-and/">Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Female share of graduates in other fields than Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics programmes, tertiary (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
92 places, 1,054 data points, 1998–2019
Last refreshed

Female share of graduates in the given field of education, tertiary is the number of female graduates expressed as a percentage of the total number of graduates in the given field of education from tertiary education.