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Which Country Has the Most Female Students at the Tertiary Level?

Number of Tertiary students - Females, 2012

Education | February 22, 2018

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Based on a comparison of 34 countries in 2012, USA ranked the highest in number of tertiary students - females with 244,485 followed by Germany and France. On the other end of the scale was Liechtenstein with 31.0, Malta with 33.0 and Luxembourg with 173.

Data for more countries are available at Number of Tertiary students - Females indicator page.

Number of Tertiary students - Females	Unit	1992	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Austria		...	...	...	...	...	...									7,692	8,309	7,923	8,402	12,631
Czechia		...	...	...	...	...	...									8,594	9,248	9,642	10,189	10,852
Finland		...	...	...	...	...	...									11,426	11,401	11,329	11,000	10,771
France		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	32,175	33,290	32,564	33,480	33,244
Germany		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...
Italy		...	...	...	...	...	...									19,774	20,942	20,704	20,810	20,124
Japan		...	...	...	...	...	...									22,279	22,690	23,053	23,189	23,644
Poland		...	...	...	...	...	...									16,131	15,926	16,271	16,880	18,693
Portugal		...	...	...	...	...	...		...							11,494	10,425	9,060	8,457	9,065
Romania		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...				10,482	12,626	13,153	13,550	13,896
Spain		...	...	...	...	...	...									39,298	37,682	35,024	40,111	35,860
Sweden		...	...	...	...	...	...									10,403	10,300	9,881	9,869	9,909
Switzerland		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...					6,953	7,257	7,700	8,161	8,693
Turkey		...	...	...	...	...	...	...	...							12,823	13,857	15,031	16,004	19,438
USA		...	...	...	...	...	...					...				201,529	206,537	230,700	228,528	239,240