Enrolment in tertiary education, ISCED 6 programmes, male (number) by country

Total number of male students enrolled in public and private tertiary education institutions in programmes on the bachelors or equivalent (ISCED 6) level.

Countries reporting

103

Highest

15.60 million number

India

Lowest

214 number

Monaco

Median

86,243 number

Years covered

1999–2020

Data points

1,002

What the numbers show

Enrolment in tertiary education, ISCED 6 programmes, male (number) is currently reported for 103 countries. The highest value is 15.60 million number in India; the lowest is 214 number in Monaco.

The median across all reporting countries is 86,243 number, and the mean is 575,700 number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 72,895.

Over the past decade 53 countries rose and 40 fell. The largest increase was in Seychelles (up 167.8%), and the largest decrease in Laos (down 52.0%).

Enrolment in tertiary education, ISCED 6 programmes, male: full country ranking

#	Country	Latest	Year	10-year change	Trend
1	India	15.60 million number	2019	up 18.3%	rising
2	China	11.06 million number	2019	up 25.8%	rising
3	United States	4.11 million number	2018	—	flat
4	Brazil	3.63 million number	2018	up 16.7%	rising
5	Turkey	2.23 million number	2018	up 34.5%	rising
7	Japan	1.46 million number	2018	down 3.2%	flat
8	Philippines	1.41 million number	2017	up 28.1%	rising
9	Russia	1.40 million number	2018	up 34.3%	rising
10	Egypt	1.33 million number	2017	—	rising
11	South Korea	1.21 million number	2018	down 10.4%	falling
12	Iran	1.02 million number	2018	down 23.3%	falling
13	Germany	997,463 number	2018	up 9.2%	rising
14	Pakistan	917,941 number	2018	up 23.2%	rising
15	Vietnam	800,176 number	2018	up 2.7%	falling
16	United Kingdom	714,541 number	2018	up 4.1%	flat
17	Colombia	700,749 number	2018	up 17.5%	rising
18	Saudi Arabia	601,822 number	2019	up 9.9%	rising
19	Spain	552,160 number	2018	up 11.0%	rising
20	Italy	527,754 number	2018	up 6.1%	rising
21	France	433,400 number	2018	up 11.9%	rising
22	Canada	432,334 number	2018	up 8.1%	rising
23	Poland	429,567 number	2018	down 20.8%	falling
24	Australia	425,012 number	2018	up 9.2%	rising
25	Chile	386,014 number	2018	up 5.4%	rising
26	Ukraine	385,283 number	2019	down 29.0%	falling
27	Morocco	383,703 number	2019	—	rising
28	Algeria	376,994 number	2018	down 2.9%	rising
29	Greece	346,829 number	2018	up 13.6%	rising
30	Syria	308,009 number	2016	up 18.0%	rising
31	South Africa	288,265 number	2018	up 20.3%	rising
32	Malaysia	287,616 number	2019	up 22.3%	rising
33	Ecuador	268,308 number	2016	—	rising
34	Kazakhstan	250,227 number	2019	up 15.9%	rising
35	Dominican Republic	185,634 number	2017	up 11.5%	rising
36	Nepal	172,568 number	2019	down 17.1%	falling
37	Ghana	171,955 number	2019	up 37.9%	rising
38	Romania	168,690 number	2018	down 15.3%	falling
39	Belgium	164,034 number	2018	up 2.4%	flat
40	Belarus	129,758 number	2018	down 28.2%	falling
41	Mozambique	111,235 number	2018	up 85.5%	rising
42	Switzerland	104,827 number	2018	up 10.7%	rising
43	Honduras	103,633 number	2018	up 41.7%	rising
44	Finland	100,688 number	2018	down 7.7%	falling
45	Israel	99,864 number	2018	down 4.7%	falling
46	Austria	93,943 number	2018	up 11.1%	rising
47	Portugal	93,131 number	2018	down 13.3%	falling
48	Hungary	87,369 number	2018	down 21.1%	falling
49	Cuba	87,257 number	2018	down 13.1%	falling
50	Sri Lanka	86,721 number	2019	down 4.9%	falling
51	Sweden	86,707 number	2018	down 7.0%	falling
52	Azerbaijan	86,377 number	2019	up 16.0%	rising
53	Tanzania	86,243 number	2019	down 4.7%	rising
54	Serbia	85,081 number	2019	down 5.1%	flat
55	Senegal	83,524 number	2019	up 31.4%	rising
56	Czechia	83,440 number	2018	down 27.6%	falling
57	Ireland	81,897 number	2018	up 43.8%	rising
58	Denmark	80,691 number	2018	up 7.2%	rising
59	Costa Rica	79,898 number	2019	up 2.6%	flat
60	Norway	79,058 number	2018	up 13.3%	rising
61	United Arab Emirates	78,902 number	2017	—	rising
62	New Zealand	76,346 number	2018	up 5.6%	rising
64	Bulgaria	74,617 number	2018	down 18.8%	falling
65	El Salvador	70,977 number	2018	up 8.1%	rising
66	Palestine	64,589 number	2019	down 6.0%	flat
67	Madagascar	62,157 number	2018	up 59.7%	rising
68	Cote d'Ivoire	62,146 number	2017	up 20.6%	rising
69	Georgia	56,527 number	2019	up 33.1%	rising
70	Tunisia	56,520 number	2019	down 32.5%	falling
71	Croatia	45,273 number	2018	down 6.0%	falling
72	Mali	44,923 number	2015	—	falling
73	Oman	41,254 number	2019	up 26.4%	rising
74	Lithuania	40,521 number	2018	down 25.5%	falling
75	Albania	36,531 number	2019	down 36.5%	falling
76	Rwanda	34,271 number	2019	down 6.0%	falling
77	Armenia	33,684 number	2019	down 22.0%	falling
78	Slovakia	33,166 number	2018	down 33.2%	falling
79	Bosnia and Herzegovina	29,233 number	2019	down 34.3%	falling
80	Niger	26,125 number	2019	—	rising
81	North Macedonia	25,272 number	2018	down 2.4%	flat
82	Burundi	24,804 number	2018	up 34.8%	rising
83	Kuwait	23,543 number	2019	down 0.3%	falling
84	Laos	22,558 number	2019	down 52.0%	falling
85	Moldova	20,730 number	2019	down 45.2%	falling
86	Latvia	20,647 number	2018	down 21.8%	falling
87	Slovenia	17,212 number	2018	down 25.0%	falling
88	Bahrain	16,388 number	2019	up 40.6%	rising
89	Botswana	14,479 number	2019	up 8.1%	flat
90	Mauritius	12,866 number	2017	—	flat
91	Estonia	12,316 number	2018	down 36.7%	falling
92	Cyprus	12,066 number	2018	up 26.6%	rising
93	Macao	10,984 number	2019	up 16.9%	rising
94	Qatar	5,389 number	2019	up 15.0%	rising
95	Iceland	4,555 number	2018	down 15.6%	falling
96	Cape Verde	4,528 number	2018	down 6.8%	falling
97	Malta	3,982 number	2018	up 31.6%	rising
98	Lesotho	3,762 number	2018	down 4.4%	falling
99	Brunei	2,759 number	2019	up 67.8%	rising
100	Belize	1,868 number	2019	up 11.4%	rising
101	Seychelles	308 number	2019	up 167.8%	rising
102	Andorra	270 number	2019	up 46.7%	rising
103	Liechtenstein	232 number	2018	—	falling
104	Saint Lucia	215 number	2019	down 35.6%	falling
105	Monaco	214 number	2020	—	rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

World 74.60 million number
IDA & IBRD total 60.63 million number
Low & middle income 59.96 million number
Middle income 57.14 million number
IBRD only 52.91 million number
Early-demographic dividend 36.69 million number
Upper middle income 30.95 million number
Lower middle income 26.19 million number
Late-demographic dividend 21.71 million number
East Asia & Pacific 21.16 million number
South Asia 18.76 million number
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 18.76 million number

About this data

Indicator: Enrolment in tertiary education, ISCED 6 programmes, male (number)
Unit: number
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence: CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage: 148 places, 1,002 data points, 1999–2020
Last refreshed: 07 August 2026

Total number of male students enrolled in public and private tertiary education institutions in programmes on the bachelors or equivalent (ISCED 6) level.