What share of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher.
The ranking uses the latest available value for each country — the year is shown in the row. The table spans 2000 to 2024.
Top-20 · % of population aged 25+
The scale does not start at zero — the values lie in a narrow range, and starting from zero the bars would be indistinguishable. The axis ticks are labeled.
| # | Year | Subregion | World rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
United Arab Emirates
|
52.66 | 2024 | 1 | |
| 2 |
Ireland
|
41.85 | 2023 | 2 | |
| 3 |
Luxembourg
|
41.85 | 2023 | 3 | |
| 4 |
Switzerland
|
41.61 | 2024 | 4 | |
| 5 |
Lithuania
|
41.31 | 2023 | 5 | |
| 6 |
Russia
|
41.22 | 2021 | 6 | |
| 7 |
United Kingdom
|
39.59 | 2021 | 7 | |
| 8 |
United States
|
39.06 | 2024 | 8 | |
| 9 |
Israel
|
38.3 | 2023 | 9 | |
| 10 |
Belgium
|
37.41 | 2023 | 10 | |
| 11 |
Australia
|
36.78 | 2024 | 11 | |
| 12 |
Netherlands
|
36.56 | 2023 | 12 | |
| 13 |
South Korea
|
36.46 | 2024 | 13 | |
| 14 |
Singapore
|
36.19 | 2022 | 14 | |
| 15 |
Saudi Arabia
|
36.04 | 2024 | 15 | |
| 16 |
Mongolia
|
35.52 | 2024 | 16 | |
| 17 |
Sweden
|
34.88 | 2023 | 17 | |
| 18 |
Ukraine
|
34.75 | 2019 | 18 | |
| 19 |
Cyprus
|
34.72 | 2023 | 19 | |
| 20 |
Canada
|
34.66 | 2024 | 20 | |
| 21 |
Iceland
|
34.46 | 2023 | 21 | |
| 22 |
Georgia
|
33.69 | 2024 | 22 | |
| 23 |
Denmark
|
33.62 | 2023 | 23 | |
| 24 |
Latvia
|
33.2 | 2023 | 24 | |
| 25 |
Kazakhstan
|
32.98 | 2024 | 25 | |
| 26 |
Estonia
|
32.94 | 2023 | 26 | |
| 27 |
New Zealand
|
32.28 | 2020 | 27 | |
| 28 |
Norway
|
32.19 | 2023 | 28 | |
| 29 |
Bermuda
|
31.11 | 2016 | 29 | |
| 30 |
Germany
|
30.53 | 2023 | 30 | |
| 31 |
Qatar
|
30.39 | 2022 | 31 | |
| 32 |
Curaçao
|
30.17 | 2020 | 32 | |
| 33 |
Finland
|
29.89 | 2023 | 33 | |
| 34 |
Cayman Islands
|
29.86 | 2015 | 34 | |
| 35 |
Puerto Rico
|
29.57 | 2024 | 35 | |
| 36 |
Bahrain
|
29.22 | 2024 | 36 | |
| 37 |
Greece
|
28.94 | 2024 | 37 | |
| 38 |
Belarus
|
28.3 | 2019 | 38 | |
| 39 |
Poland
|
27.72 | 2021 | 39 | |
| 40 |
Bulgaria
|
26.37 | 2023 | 40 | |
| 41 |
Hungary
|
26.35 | 2023 | 41 | |
| 42 |
Malta
|
26.3 | 2023 | 42 | |
| 43 |
Armenia
|
25.91 | 2023 | 43 | |
| 44 |
Japan
|
25.54 | 2020 | 44 | |
| 45 |
Slovakia
|
25.29 | 2023 | 45 | |
| 46 |
Spain
|
25.04 | 2023 | 46 | |
| 47 |
Andorra
|
25.04 | 2022 | 47 | |
| 48 |
Portugal
|
24.91 | 2024 | 48 | |
| 49 |
France
|
24.35 | 2023 | 49 | |
| 50 |
Kyrgyzstan
|
23.93 | 2023 | 50 | |
| 51 |
Jordan
|
23.23 | 2023 | 51 | |
| 52 |
Palestine
|
22.79 | 2024 | 52 | |
| 53 |
Moldova
|
22.56 | 2024 | 53 | |
| 54 |
Chile
|
22.27 | 2024 | 54 | |
| 55 |
Venezuela
|
22.26 | 2017 | 55 | |
| 56 |
Lebanon
|
22.14 | 2019 | 56 | |
| 57 |
Slovenia
|
22.04 | 2023 | 57 | |
| 58 |
Croatia
|
21.96 | 2023 | 58 | |
| 59 |
Czechia
|
21.96 | 2023 | 59 | |
| 60 |
Türkiye
|
21.86 | 2023 | 60 | |
| 61 |
Timor-Leste
|
20.37 | 2022 | 61 | |
| 62 |
North Macedonia
|
20.03 | 2024 | 62 | |
| 63 |
Serbia
|
19.99 | 2024 | 63 | |
| 64 |
Aruba
|
19.6 | 2023 | 64 | |
| 65 |
Montenegro
|
19.58 | 2020 | 65 | |
| 66 |
Dominican Republic
|
19.21 | 2024 | 66 | |
| 67 |
Oman
|
19.11 | 2022 | 67 | |
| 68 |
Bolivia
|
18.78 | 2024 | 68 | |
| 69 |
Brunei Darussalam
|
18.51 | 2023 | 69 | |
| 70 |
San Marino
|
18.39 | 2022 | 70 | |
| 71 |
Mexico
|
18.38 | 2024 | 71 | |
| 72 |
Philippines
|
18.08 | 2022 | 72 | |
| 73 |
Egypt
|
18.05 | 2023 | 73 | |
| 74 |
Iran
|
17.92 | 2023 | 74 | |
| 75 |
Colombia
|
17.68 | 2024 | 75 | |
| 76 |
Azerbaijan
|
17.67 | 2023 | 76 | |
| 77 |
Italy
|
17.58 | 2023 | 77 | |
| 78 |
Albania
|
17.51 | 2023 | 78 | |
| 79 |
Thailand
|
17.35 | 2022 | 79 | |
| 80 |
Brazil
|
17.19 | 2024 | 80 | |
| 81 |
Bahamas
|
16.91 | 2022 | 81 | |
| 82 |
Uzbekistan
|
16.85 | 2022 | 82 | |
| 83 |
Costa Rica
|
16.83 | 2024 | 83 | |
| 84 |
Samoa
|
16.48 | 2022 | 84 | |
| 85 |
Tajikistan
|
16.34 | 2023 | 85 | |
| 86 |
Paraguay
|
16.16 | 2024 | 86 | |
| 87 |
Cuba
|
15.33 | 2019 | 87 | |
| 88 |
New Caledonia
|
15.19 | 2019 | 88 | |
| 89 |
India
|
14.88 | 2023 | 89 | |
| 90 |
Austria
|
14.88 | 2021 | 90 | |
| 91 |
Antigua and Barbuda
|
14.69 | 2023 | 91 | |
| 92 |
Palau
|
14.69 | 2020 | 92 | |
| 93 |
Romania
|
14.6 | 2023 | 93 | |
| 94 |
Panama
|
14.6 | 2024 | 94 | |
| 95 |
Malaysia
|
14.56 | 2022 | 95 | |
| 96 |
South Africa
|
14.35 | 2024 | 96 | |
| 97 |
Comoros
|
14.06 | 2022 | 97 | |
| 98 |
Uruguay
|
12.93 | 2024 | 98 | |
| 99 |
Tunisia
|
12.8 | 2023 | 99 | |
| 100 |
Turks and Caicos Islands
|
11.75 | 2019 | 100 | |
| 101 |
Mauritius
|
11.67 | 2023 | 101 | |
| 102 |
Algeria
|
11.44 | 2019 | 102 | |
| 103 |
Tonga
|
11.42 | 2023 | 103 | |
| 104 |
Vietnam
|
11.32 | 2023 | 104 | |
| 105 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
11.28 | 2023 | 105 | |
| 106 |
Kuwait
|
11.12 | 2018 | 106 | |
| 107 |
Saint Lucia
|
11.06 | 2020 | 107 | |
| 108 |
Maldives
|
10.96 | 2019 | 108 | |
| 109 |
Jamaica
|
10.95 | 2022 | 109 | |
| 110 |
Iraq
|
10.94 | 2021 | 110 | |
| 111 |
Argentina
|
10.86 | 2022 | 111 | |
| 112 |
Nigeria
|
10.57 | 2024 | 112 | |
| 113 |
Solomon Islands
|
10.51 | 2015 | 113 | |
| 114 |
Trinidad and Tobago
|
10.14 | 2022 | 114 | |
| 115 |
Fiji
|
10.02 | 2021 | 115 | |
| 116 |
Pakistan
|
9.93 | 2021 | 116 | |
| 117 |
Turkmenistan
|
9.59 | 2022 | 117 | |
| 118 |
Seychelles
|
9.52 | 2023 | 118 | |
| 119 |
Myanmar
|
9.35 | 2019 | 119 | |
| 120 |
Indonesia
|
9.33 | 2023 | 120 | |
| 121 |
Cabo Verde
|
9.2 | 2024 | 121 | |
| 122 |
Democratic Republic of the Congo
|
9.15 | 2023 | 122 | |
| 123 |
Suriname
|
8.93 | 2022 | 123 | |
| 124 |
Namibia
|
8.58 | 2023 | 124 | |
| 125 |
Bhutan
|
8.48 | 2022 | 125 | |
| 126 |
Tuvalu
|
8.43 | 2017 | 126 | |
| 127 |
Sudan
|
8.08 | 2022 | 127 | |
| 128 |
Ecuador
|
7.99 | 2024 | 128 | |
| 129 |
Grenada
|
7.92 | 2023 | 129 | |
| 130 |
Republic of the Congo
|
7.82 | 2015 | 130 | |
| 131 |
China
|
7.68 | 2020 | 131 | |
| 132 |
Bangladesh
|
7.5 | 2023 | 132 | |
| 133 |
Botswana
|
7.44 | 2023 | 133 | |
| 134 |
Honduras
|
7.39 | 2024 | 134 | |
| 135 |
El Salvador
|
7.27 | 2023 | 135 | |
| 136 |
Djibouti
|
7.06 | 2017 | 136 | |
| 137 |
Belize
|
7.01 | 2022 | 137 | |
| 138 |
Micronesia
|
6.97 | 2014 | 138 | |
| 139 |
Dominica
|
6.84 | 2021 | 139 | |
| 140 |
Kenya
|
6.76 | 2024 | 140 | |
| 141 |
Angola
|
6.64 | 2023 | 141 | |
| 142 |
Rwanda
|
6.5 | 2024 | 142 | |
| 143 |
Cameroon
|
6.42 | 2018 | 143 | |
| 144 |
Eswatini
|
6.41 | 2022 | 144 | |
| 145 |
Laos
|
6.27 | 2023 | 145 | |
| 146 |
Guinea
|
6.21 | 2018 | 146 | |
| 147 |
Nepal
|
5.82 | 2017 | 147 | |
| 148 |
Cambodia
|
5.82 | 2023 | 148 | |
| 149 |
Sri Lanka
|
5.36 | 2023 | 149 | |
| 150 |
Ghana
|
5.17 | 2024 | 150 | |
| 151 |
Mauritania
|
5.17 | 2015 | 151 | |
| 152 |
Guatemala
|
5.08 | 2024 | 152 | |
| 153 |
Liberia
|
5.06 | 2019 | 153 | |
| 154 |
Yemen
|
4.99 | 2014 | 154 | |
| 155 |
Côte d'Ivoire
|
4.98 | 2021 | 155 | |
| 156 |
Sao Tome and Principe
|
4.85 | 2019 | 156 | |
| 157 |
Haiti
|
4.53 | 2017 | 157 | |
| 158 |
Guyana
|
4.47 | 2019 | 158 | |
| 159 |
Togo
|
4.44 | 2022 | 159 | |
| 160 |
Somalia
|
4.27 | 2022 | 160 | |
| 161 |
Uganda
|
4.24 | 2024 | 161 | |
| 162 |
Marshall Islands
|
4.19 | 2021 | 162 | |
| 163 |
Afghanistan
|
3.98 | 2022 | 163 | |
| 164 |
Lesotho
|
3.94 | 2018 | 164 | |
| 165 |
Benin
|
3.85 | 2022 | 165 | |
| 166 |
Senegal
|
3.81 | 2023 | 166 | |
| 167 |
Ethiopia
|
3.79 | 2022 | 167 | |
| 168 |
South Sudan
|
3.77 | 2008 | 168 | |
| 169 |
Vanuatu
|
3.34 | 2023 | 169 | |
| 170 |
Zambia
|
3.23 | 2024 | 170 | |
| 171 |
Papua New Guinea
|
3.14 | 2022 | 171 | |
| 172 |
Mozambique
|
3.04 | 2022 | 172 | |
| 173 |
Madagascar
|
2.93 | 2021 | 173 | |
| 174 |
Guinea-Bissau
|
2.62 | 2022 | 174 | |
| 175 |
Gambia
|
2.51 | 2023 | 175 | |
| 176 |
Burkina Faso
|
2.5 | 2024 | 176 | |
| 177 |
Mali
|
2.33 | 2022 | 177 | |
| 178 |
Tanzania
|
2.32 | 2022 | 178 | |
| 179 |
Nauru
|
2.12 | 2023 | 179 | |
| 180 |
Sierra Leone
|
1.96 | 2019 | 180 | |
| 181 |
Kiribati
|
1.86 | 2024 | 181 | |
| 182 |
Central African Republic
|
1.81 | 2019 | 182 | |
| 183 |
Chad
|
1.76 | 2019 | 183 | |
| 184 |
Malawi
|
1.32 | 2020 | 184 | |
| 185 |
Zimbabwe
|
1.13 | 2023 | 185 | |
| 186 |
Barbados
|
1.06 | 2000 | 186 | |
| 187 |
Niger
|
0.97 | 2022 | 187 | |
| 188 |
Burundi
|
0.91 | 2017 | 188 |
The share of the population aged 25 and older that has completed education at the bachelor's level or above. It differs fundamentally from tertiary enrollment: enrollment counts current students, while this indicator is the accumulated result of past decades, so it changes slowly and reflects not the policy of today but the state of the system twenty or thirty years ago.
Important: An accumulated stock, not the current flow: a country whose tertiary enrollment has grown quickly will keep catching up on this indicator for another generation.
How many university students there are relative to the population of the corresponding age.
Education 2010–2020 Harmonized test scoresWhat children have actually learned — a score on a scale that brings different international tests together.
Education 1970–2024 Literacy rateThe share of adults able to read and write simple statements about everyday life.
Education 1996–2024 Researchers per million peopleThe number of researchers per million residents — in full-time equivalent.