Year-over-year change: +12.7 pp, trend up
5-year change: +61.8 pp, trend up
Macao
Tertiary enrollment: 141.9%
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Rankings at a glance
Highest 10 · Gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education (2024)
Among the 60 countries with 2024 data, Macao has the highest gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education at 141.86% in 2024, followed by Hong Kong (120.09%) and Ukraine (85.27%). Saudi Arabia (83.88%) and Albania (82%) close out the top 5. Next up, Monaco (77.48%) and China (76.88%). Fiji (75.01%), Moldova (74.71%), and Belarus (70.11%) round out the top ten. The gap across the top ten is wide: Macao has 2.0× the value of Belarus (70.11%). Five of the top ten are in Europe, with three from Eastern Europe.
Rank changes
How gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education changed between 2023 and 2024
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Historical trends
Key terms
- Literacy rate
- — Percentage of population who can read and write a short, simple statement about everyday life.
- Gross enrollment ratio
- — Total enrollment in a level of education, regardless of age, expressed as a percentage of the eligible school-age population.
- Completion rate
- — Percentage of a cohort of children who complete a given level of education.
- Out-of-school rate
- — Percentage of children of official school age who are not enrolled in school.
- Pupil-teacher ratio
- — Enrolled pupils per TRAINED teacher at a given level of education. It measures how thinly trained teachers are spread, not average class size: the ratio rises when fewer teachers meet the training requirement, whatever happens to the number of pupils in a room.
- Educational attainment
- — Highest level of education completed by the population aged 25 and over.
Frequently asked questions
- Which country has the highest gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education?
- Macao has the highest gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education among the 60 countries with 2024 data at 141.9% as of 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
- Which country has the lowest gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education?
- Tanzania has the lowest gross enrollment ratio for tertiary education among the 60 countries with 2024 data at 4.0% as of 2024, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
