School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, female (number) by country

Name: School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, female (number)
Creator: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
License: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)

Female population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to post-secondary non-tertiary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.

Countries reporting

164

Highest

23.40 million number

India

Lowest

96 number

Nauru

Median

61,978 number

Years covered

1970–2020

Data points

4,244

What the numbers show

School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, female (number) is currently reported for 164 countries. The highest value is 23.40 million number in India; the lowest is 96 number in Nauru.

The median across all reporting countries is 61,978 number, and the mean is 482,634 number.

Over the past decade 77 countries rose and 85 fell. The largest increase was in Mauritania (up 146.3%), and the largest decrease in Belarus (down 79.0%).

School age population, post-secondary … post-secondary female: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	India	23.40 million number	2019	up 5.4%	rising
2	China	7.90 million number	2019	down 33.3%	falling
3	Nigeria	3.80 million number	2019	up 30.0%	rising
4	Bangladesh	3.05 million number	2019	down 48.5%	falling
5	United States	2.07 million number	2018	down 2.9%	rising
6	Pakistan	2.07 million number	2019	up 11.9%	rising
7	Philippines	1.99 million number	2019	up 6.3%	rising
8	Brazil	1.68 million number	2017	—	flat
9	Egypt	1.65 million number	2019	down 0.2%	rising
10	Iran	1.36 million number	2012	down 23.6%	falling
11	Germany	1.27 million number	2020	down 8.0%	falling
12	Ethiopia	1.20 million number	2019	up 49.7%	rising
13	Democratic Republic of Congo	1.14 million number	2008	up 16.8%	rising
14	Algeria	1.14 million number	2006	up 9.6%	rising
15	Kenya	1.13 million number	2019	up 30.1%	rising
16	Tanzania	1.06 million number	2019	up 21.7%	rising
17	Myanmar	1.02 million number	2019	up 7.9%	flat
18	South Africa	964,482 number	2019	down 9.1%	rising
19	Uganda	928,988 number	2019	up 43.4%	rising
20	Colombia	847,410 number	2019	down 0.3%	rising
21	France	818,990 number	2019	up 1.2%	flat
22	Afghanistan	815,517 number	2019	up 58.4%	rising
23	Iraq	767,532 number	2019	up 35.7%	rising
24	Russia	649,369 number	2020	down 36.0%	falling
25	Vietnam	630,762 number	2019	down 29.2%	falling
26	Ghana	579,713 number	2019	down 17.1%	flat
27	Morocco	565,978 number	2019	down 9.6%	falling
28	Madagascar	561,303 number	2019	up 40.3%	rising
29	Malaysia	553,273 number	2012	up 17.8%	rising
30	Cote d'Ivoire	521,983 number	2019	up 34.9%	rising
31	Cameroon	490,431 number	2019	up 22.0%	rising
32	Thailand	483,017 number	2013	down 9.1%	falling
33	Zimbabwe	467,170 number	2019	up 51.9%	rising
34	Haiti	431,219 number	2019	up 6.7%	rising
35	Spain	430,647 number	2020	down 3.4%	falling
36	Canada	417,954 number	2019	down 5.4%	rising
37	United Kingdom	402,787 number	2009	up 18.0%	rising
38	Malawi	390,135 number	2019	up 27.7%	rising
39	North Korea	376,822 number	2019	down 2.5%	rising
40	Poland	365,062 number	2020	down 32.1%	falling
41	Mali	362,837 number	2019	up 24.5%	rising
42	Sri Lanka	319,294 number	2019	up 95.0%	rising
43	Syria	317,783 number	2019	down 26.9%	falling
44	Senegal	309,499 number	2019	up 24.2%	rising
45	Ecuador	307,970 number	2019	—	rising
46	Cambodia	298,116 number	2019	up 4.8%	rising
47	Italy	277,270 number	2020	down 2.7%	falling
48	Ukraine	249,678 number	2012	down 31.3%	falling
49	Rwanda	248,858 number	2019	up 15.5%	rising
50	Benin	231,931 number	2019	up 29.1%	rising
51	Yemen	228,982 number	2007	down 27.5%	falling
52	Sierra Leone	228,042 number	2019	up 81.2%	rising
53	Mozambique	226,128 number	2008	up 24.4%	rising
54	Saudi Arabia	218,653 number	2019	down 55.2%	falling
55	Niger	205,333 number	2019	up 54.7%	rising
56	Burkina Faso	197,397 number	2019	up 34.8%	rising
57	Romania	195,550 number	2020	down 57.1%	falling
58	Zambia	190,586 number	2019	down 31.4%	falling
59	Chad	160,303 number	2019	up 40.1%	falling
60	Libya	160,171 number	2017	down 15.6%	rising
61	Tunisia	156,006 number	2019	down 25.9%	falling
62	Togo	151,707 number	2019	up 24.3%	rising
63	Australia	145,047 number	2019	up 2.9%	rising
64	Laos	139,166 number	2019	down 4.2%	rising
65	Cuba	135,623 number	2019	down 17.8%	falling
66	Paraguay	123,494 number	2005	up 50.2%	rising
67	Nicaragua	115,106 number	2019	down 4.6%	flat
68	Greece	103,709 number	2020	down 9.1%	falling
69	Kazakhstan	101,628 number	2020	down 35.3%	falling
70	Netherlands	99,064 number	2020	down 2.6%	rising
71	Sweden	98,213 number	2020	up 57.1%	rising
72	Liberia	97,536 number	2019	up 40.0%	rising
73	Congo	97,203 number	2019	up 27.0%	rising
74	Hungary	95,977 number	2020	down 20.8%	falling
75	Papua New Guinea	85,183 number	2019	up 20.3%	rising
76	Tajikistan	84,845 number	2011	up 28.7%	rising
77	Gambia	71,608 number	2019	up 30.1%	rising
78	Mauritania	70,641 number	2012	up 146.3%	rising
79	Panama	69,478 number	2019	up 12.1%	rising
80	Denmark	68,378 number	2012	up 14.7%	flat
81	Serbia	66,863 number	2019	down 24.8%	falling
82	Israel	62,133 number	2019	up 16.4%	rising
83	Belgium	61,824 number	2020	down 4.1%	rising
84	Ireland	61,794 number	2019	up 2.3%	falling
85	Azerbaijan	60,705 number	2019	down 32.8%	falling
86	Bulgaria	56,210 number	2019	down 42.6%	falling
87	Oman	53,686 number	2012	up 10.0%	rising
88	Portugal	52,694 number	2020	down 5.7%	falling
89	Jamaica	50,127 number	2019	down 4.8%	rising
90	Palestine	50,038 number	2019	up 17.3%	rising
91	Namibia	49,119 number	2019	up 3.0%	rising
92	Uruguay	48,853 number	2004	down 8.3%	falling
93	Kyrgyzstan	48,371 number	2020	down 21.1%	falling
94	Turkmenistan	45,360 number	2019	down 60.3%	falling
95	Switzerland	45,111 number	2020	up 0.6%	rising
96	Czechia	44,053 number	2020	down 65.4%	falling
97	Mongolia	43,573 number	2019	down 53.0%	volatile
98	Austria	43,211 number	2020	down 12.7%	falling
99	Belarus	41,209 number	2019	down 79.0%	volatile
100	Kuwait	40,172 number	2019	up 3.6%	rising
101	Guinea-Bissau	38,006 number	2019	down 21.6%	falling
102	Puerto Rico	34,087 number	2019	down 39.1%	falling
103	Norway	32,585 number	2020	up 5.4%	rising
104	Eritrea	31,374 number	2019	down 59.2%	rising
105	Hong Kong	30,637 number	2019	down 28.0%	falling
106	New Zealand	29,437 number	2019	down 6.5%	rising
107	Finland	29,185 number	2020	down 14.4%	volatile
108	Bhutan	27,507 number	2020	down 10.6%	rising
109	Slovakia	26,451 number	2020	down 31.5%	falling
110	Lesotho	21,452 number	2019	down 7.2%	falling
111	Botswana	20,806 number	2019	up 1.5%	rising
112	Georgia	20,465 number	2020	down 33.4%	falling
113	Moldova	18,492 number	2019	down 44.6%	falling
114	Gabon	18,061 number	2019	down 41.4%	falling
115	Trinidad and Tobago	17,094 number	2019	down 22.8%	falling
116	Djibouti	16,523 number	2019	down 5.2%	falling
117	Latvia	16,137 number	2019	down 51.1%	falling
118	Comoros	15,966 number	2019	up 132.3%	rising
119	Guyana	15,499 number	2019	down 4.0%	rising
120	Lithuania	14,577 number	2019	down 36.2%	falling
121	Fiji	14,218 number	2019	down 9.2%	falling
122	North Macedonia	12,268 number	2019	down 20.0%	falling
123	Eswatini	12,179 number	2019	down 8.2%	flat
124	Estonia	10,833 number	2020	down 38.9%	falling
125	Luxembourg	10,657 number	2020	up 24.3%	rising
126	Cyprus	10,494 number	2019	down 15.4%	falling
127	Slovenia	10,387 number	2012	down 25.8%	falling
128	Suriname	9,491 number	2019	down 49.2%	falling
129	Mauritius	9,387 number	2019	down 54.7%	falling
130	Qatar	8,471 number	2019	up 28.6%	rising
131	Belize	7,930 number	2019	up 22.7%	rising
132	Montenegro	7,923 number	2019	down 9.7%	falling
133	Bahrain	7,204 number	2019	up 0.1%	rising
134	Solomon Islands	6,253 number	2019	up 23.2%	rising
135	Vanuatu	5,262 number	2019	up 13.6%	rising
136	Maldives	5,245 number	2019	down 36.2%	falling
137	Cape Verde	4,765 number	2019	down 18.1%	rising
138	Malta	4,503 number	2019	up 61.4%	rising
139	Barbados	3,721 number	2019	down 3.1%	falling
140	Brunei	3,321 number	2012	up 7.0%	rising
141	Bahamas	3,257 number	2019	up 5.8%	rising
142	Curacao	3,138 number	2019	down 10.4%	falling
143	Micronesia (country)	2,333 number	2019	up 13.3%	flat
144	Iceland	2,108 number	2020	down 4.8%	falling
145	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1,826 number	2019	down 8.1%	falling
146	Samoa	1,749 number	2019	up 0.9%	rising
147	Grenada	1,577 number	2019	down 22.9%	falling
148	Antigua and Barbuda	1,458 number	2019	up 1.6%	rising
149	Saint Lucia	1,430 number	2019	down 57.0%	falling
150	Marshall Islands	1,264 number	2019	down 9.0%	flat
151	Seychelles	1,233 number	2019	down 42.1%	falling
152	Dominica	1,118 number	2019	down 20.6%	flat
153	Tonga	1,057 number	2019	down 1.6%	flat
154	Kiribati	1,048 number	2008	up 28.1%	rising
155	Saint Kitts and Nevis	802 number	2019	up 0.8%	flat
156	San Marino	792 number	2010	up 20.4%	rising
157	Cayman Islands	726 number	2019	up 8.2%	rising
158	British Virgin Islands	659 number	2019	up 89.9%	rising
159	Sint Maarten (Dutch part)	656 number	2019	up 32.0%	rising
160	Turks and Caicos Islands	593 number	2019	up 35.1%	rising
161	Gibraltar	452 number	2019	up 6.4%	flat
162	Liechtenstein	443 number	2019	up 6.0%	rising
163	Palau	215 number	2019	down 35.6%	falling
164	Nauru	96 number	2019	up 1.1%	volatile

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 73.39 million number
IDA & IBRD total 65.42 million number
Low & middle income 65.31 million number
Middle income 58.49 million number
Lower middle income 44.66 million number
IBRD only 43.13 million number
Early-demographic dividend 39.01 million number
South Asia 29.70 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 29.70 million number
IDA total 22.36 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa 14.88 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) 14.88 million number
Sub-Saharan Africa (excluding high income) 14.87 million number
Late-demographic dividend 14.36 million number
IDA only 14.13 million number
Upper middle income 13.83 million number
East Asia & Pacific 13.34 million number
Pre-demographic dividend 12.86 million number
Least developed countries 12.52 million number
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 12.51 million number
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 12.14 million number
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) 9.76 million number
OECD members 8.21 million number
IDA blend 8.17 million number
High income 8.08 million number
Post-demographic dividend 7.15 million number
Low income 6.82 million number
Europe & Central Asia 5.38 million number
European Union 4.23 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 3.87 million number
Arab World 3.82 million number
Latin America & Caribbean 3.71 million number
Latin America & Caribbean (excluding high income) 3.57 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 3.53 million number
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) 3.52 million number
Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 3.48 million number
Euro area 3.35 million number
North America 2.52 million number
Europe & Central Asia (IDA & IBRD countries) 1.71 million number
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) 1.13 million number

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Indicator: School age population, post-secondary non-tertiary education, female (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 209 places, 4,244 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed: 30 October 2026

Female population of the age-group theoretically corresponding to post-secondary non-tertiary education as indicated by theoretical entrance age and duration.