# Countries by tertiary education gross enrolment ratio, 2020

All 133 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2020, so the places are comparable. 70 countries have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- Indicator id: `tertiary_enrolment_gross`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Students enrolled in tertiary education (ISCED levels 5 to 8), of any age, as a percentage of the population in the five-year age group that follows the official secondary school leaving age. UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, School enrollment, tertiary, % gross (SE.TER.ENRR) (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/unesco-institute-for-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). School enrollment, tertiary, % gross (SE.TER.ENRR). Retrieved through World Bank World Development Indicators (data.worldbank.org). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.TER.ENRR. Retrieved 2026-10-12. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. UIS does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.
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| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 143.7 |
| 2 | Türkiye | 118.9 |
| 3 | Australia | 110.1 |
| 4 | Cyprus | 102.4 |
| 5 | Argentina | 99.4 |
| 6 | South Korea | 96.9 |
| 7 | Finland | 96.5 |
| 8 | Latvia | 94.5 |
| 9 | Singapore | 93.1 |
| 10 | Spain | 91.6 |
| 11 | Hong Kong | 89.9 |
| 12 | Chile | 89.1 |
| 13 | Austria | 88.7 |
| 14 | Puerto Rico | 88.4 |
| 15 | United States | 87.6 |
| 16 | Norway | 87.2 |
| 17 | Macao | 86.8 |
| 18 | Bulgaria | 85.5 |
| 19 | Netherlands | 85.3 |
| 20 | Fiji | 83.8 |
| 21 | Denmark | 82.7 |
| 22 | Ukraine | 82.1 |
| 23 | Belarus | 79.9 |
| 24 | Belgium | 79.5 |
| 25 | Sweden | 79.1 |
| 26 | Slovenia | 75.8 |
| 27 | New Zealand | 75.7 |
| 28 | Canada | 75.2 |
| 29 | Croatia | 74.7 |
| 30 | Iceland | 74.6 |
| 31 | Ireland | 74.2 |
| 32 | Saudi Arabia | 73.8 |
| 33 | Lithuania | 73.6 |
| 34 | Germany | 72.4 |
| 35 | Estonia | 72 |
| 36 | Georgia | 71.8 |
| 37 | Poland | 71 |
| 38 | United Kingdom | 69.4 |
| 39 | France | 68.9 |
| 40 | Italy | 68.7 |
| 41 | Portugal | 68.2 |
| 42 | Serbia | 68.1 |
| 43 | Switzerland | 68.1 |
| 44 | Czechia | 67.2 |
| 45 | Mongolia | 66.3 |
| 46 | Uruguay | 64.9 |
| 47 | Japan | 62.3 |
| 48 | Kazakhstan | 62.3 |
| 49 | China | 61.6 |
| 50 | Albania | 61.6 |
| 51 | Malta | 61.5 |
| 52 | Dominican Republic | 58.7 |
| 53 | Montenegro | 58.1 |
| 54 | Israel | 57.6 |
| 55 | Russia | 57.2 |
| 56 | Ecuador | 56.9 |
| 57 | Hungary | 56.6 |
| 58 | Moldova | 56.2 |
| 59 | Colombia | 55.7 |
| 60 | Iran | 55.6 |
| 61 | Brazil | 55.5 |
| 62 | San Marino | 55.1 |
| 63 | United Arab Emirates | 55 |
| 64 | Bahrain | 54.4 |
| 65 | Kuwait | 53.7 |
| 66 | Romania | 53.5 |
| 67 | Algeria | 53.4 |
| 68 | Barbados | 53 |
| 69 | Armenia | 52.3 |
| 70 | Lebanon | 51.6 |
| 71 | Slovakia | 48.4 |
| 72 | Oman | 48.4 |
| 73 | Cuba | 46.7 |
| 74 | Palestine | 45.4 |
| 75 | Kyrgyzstan | 45.3 |
| 76 | Mexico | 45.2 |
| 77 | Panama | 44.9 |
| 78 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 43.8 |
| 79 | North Macedonia | 43.8 |
| 80 | Liechtenstein | 42.6 |
| 81 | Thailand | 42.6 |
| 82 | Mauritius | 42.5 |
| 83 | Malaysia | 39.7 |
| 84 | Morocco | 39.7 |
| 85 | Egypt | 38.8 |
| 86 | Indonesia | 38.2 |
| 87 | Azerbaijan | 36.4 |
| 88 | Tajikistan | 34.7 |
| 89 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 33.7 |
| 90 | Tunisia | 32.5 |
| 91 | Philippines | 31.6 |
| 92 | El Salvador | 31 |
| 93 | British Virgin Islands | 30.5 |
| 94 | Jordan | 30.3 |
| 95 | India | 29.8 |
| 96 | Brunei | 27.5 |
| 97 | Maldives | 27.1 |
| 98 | Seychelles | 26.9 |
| 99 | Namibia | 26 |
| 100 | Belize | 25.9 |
| 101 | Qatar | 23.8 |
| 102 | Bangladesh | 22.7 |
| 103 | South Africa | 22.6 |
| 104 | Botswana | 22.4 |
| 105 | Tonga | 21.3 |
| 106 | Sri Lanka | 20.2 |
| 107 | Luxembourg | 20 |
| 108 | Ghana | 18.6 |
| 109 | Samoa | 17.3 |
| 110 | Bhutan | 16.9 |
| 111 | Saint Lucia | 16.8 |
| 112 | Uzbekistan | 16 |
| 113 | Cameroon | 15.6 |
| 114 | Andorra | 15.3 |
| 115 | Togo | 14.9 |
| 116 | Nepal | 14.2 |
| 117 | Cambodia | 13.9 |
| 118 | Senegal | 13.3 |
| 119 | Laos | 12.6 |
| 120 | Turkmenistan | 12.4 |
| 121 | Pakistan | 11.7 |
| 122 | Afghanistan | 10.9 |
| 123 | Benin | 10.4 |
| 124 | Côte d’Ivoire | 10.3 |
| 125 | Burkina Faso | 7.6 |
| 126 | Rwanda | 7.6 |
| 127 | Tanzania | 7.2 |
| 128 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 6.4 |
| 129 | Mauritania | 6 |
| 130 | Suriname | 5.3 |
| 131 | Madagascar | 5.2 |
| 132 | Chad | 4.4 |
| 133 | Malawi | 2.4 |