# EU countries by tertiary education gross enrolment ratio, 2023

All 26 values come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics for 2023, so the places are comparable. 1 EU 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.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/tertiary-enrolment-ratio/eu-countries

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Greece | 165.1 |
| 2 | Finland | 108.1 |
| 3 | Cyprus | 107.3 |
| 4 | Spain | 93.7 |
| 5 | Austria | 91.7 |
| 6 | Netherlands | 86.6 |
| 7 | Latvia | 85.7 |
| 8 | Belgium | 82.1 |
| 9 | Sweden | 81.4 |
| 10 | Denmark | 81.2 |
| 11 | Croatia | 81.2 |
| 12 | Malta | 80.5 |
| 13 | Slovenia | 80.1 |
| 14 | Bulgaria | 79.9 |
| 15 | Germany | 78.6 |
| 16 | Portugal | 77.7 |
| 17 | Lithuania | 77 |
| 18 | Poland | 76.9 |
| 19 | Italy | 75.9 |
| 20 | France | 70.5 |
| 21 | Estonia | 67.6 |
| 22 | Czechia | 66.7 |
| 23 | Hungary | 56.6 |
| 24 | Romania | 55.2 |
| 25 | Slovakia | 53.4 |
| 26 | Luxembourg | 21.5 |