Population with tertiary education — all countries

Population with tertiary education — Southern Asia

Population with tertiary education in Southern Asia in 2022 — 11.65%. Since 2014, the indicator has risen by 3.27 pp.

2022 11.65% +0.12 pp vs 2019
World rank
Period maximum 11.65%2022
Period minimum 7.98%2017

Trend over time

2014–2022 · % of population aged 25+

Population with tertiary education — Southern Asia, 2014–20227891011122014201520162017201820192020202120222014: 8.37%2016: 10.03%2017: 7.98%2019: 11.53%2022: 11.65%
Change over the period: +3.27 pp Annual average: 0.41 pp
Population with tertiary education — Southern Asia, by year Southern Asia All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 11.65
2019 11.53
2017 7.98 −2.06 pp
2016 10.03
2014 8.37

About the indicator

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.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), license CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.