Population with tertiary education — all countries

Population with tertiary education — Timor-Leste

Population with tertiary education in Timor-Leste in 2022 — 20.37%. Ranked 45 in the world out of 105. Since 2016, the indicator has risen by 13.01 pp.

2022 20.37% +13.01 pp vs 2016
World rank 45of 105
Period maximum 20.37%2022
Period minimum 7.36%2016

Trend over time

2016–2022 · % of population aged 25+

Population with tertiary education — Timor-Leste, 2016–202251015202520162017201820192020202120222016: 7.36%2022: 20.37%
Change over the period: +13.01 pp Annual average: 2.17 pp

Comparison, 2022

How the value compares with the world and the groups this territory belongs to: Timor-Leste

Timor-Leste 20.37%
South-Eastern Asia computed 12.84%
Population with tertiary education — Timor-Leste, by year Timor-Leste All countries CSV XLSX
Year % Change, pp
2022 20.37
2016 7.36

South-Eastern Asia, 2022

The same indicator for neighboring countries — with links to their pages

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.