Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia

Estonia: Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in was 33.0% in 2017. ▲ Rising

Latest (2017)
33.0%
Change on year
up 9.3%
World rank
49th
of 155 countries
All-time high
33.0%
in 2017
All-time low
19.2%
in 2003
Years of data
20
1998–2017

Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia, 1998–2017

01020301998200720171998: 23.6 %1999: 23.1 %2000: 22.3 %2001: 21.1 %2002: 20.7 %2003: 19.2 %2004: 19.5 %2005: 20.6 %2006: 20.4 %2007: 20.7 %2008: 21.6 %2009: 22.8 %2010: 24 %2011: 24.1 %2012: 23.7 %2013: 23.7 %2014: 24.4 %2015: 26 %2016: 30.2 %2017: 33 %

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020. Measured in %.

Analysis

In 2017, share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia stood at 33.0%. That is the highest value across all 20 years on record.

Compared with earlier readings it is up 9.3% on the previous year and up 59.2% over ten years.

Over the whole period, share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia peaked at 33.0% in 2017 and was at its lowest, 19.2%, in 2003.

Estonia ranks 49th of 155 countries on this measure, in the middle of the range.

The long-run direction has been consistently rising across the 20 years of available data.

Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia, year by year

Annual values for Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%) in Estonia, 1998 to 2017.
Year % Change
1998 23.6%
1999 23.1% -2.2%
2000 22.3% -3.7%
2001 21.1% -5.3%
2002 20.7% -1.9%
2003 19.2% -7.3%
2004 19.5% +2.0%
2005 20.6% +5.5%
2006 20.4% -1.1%
2007 20.7% +1.8%
2008 21.6% +4.2%
2009 22.8% +5.4%
2010 24.0% +5.4%
2011 24.1% +0.2%
2012 23.7% -1.5%
2013 23.7% +0.1%
2014 24.4% +2.8%
2015 26.0% +6.5%
2016 30.2% +16.4%
2017 33.0% +9.3%

Averages by decade

DecadeAverage LowestHighest Years
1990s 23.4% 23.1% 23.6% 2
2000s 20.9% 19.2% 22.8% 10
2010s 26.1% 23.7% 33.0% 8

Countries ranked near Estonia

  1. 46 Rwanda 34.0% compare
  2. 47 Mexico 33.7% compare
  3. 48 Denmark 33.3% compare
  4. 50 Belarus 33.0% compare
  5. 51 Spain 32.9% compare
  6. 52 Costa Rica 32.7% compare

See the full ranking of 200 places →

More reference data data for Estonia

All data for Estonia →

Frequently asked questions

What is share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia?
Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia was 33.0% in 2017, according to UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020.
What is the highest share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in recorded in Estonia?
The highest recorded value was 33.0% in 2017.
What is the lowest share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in recorded in Estonia?
The lowest recorded value was 19.2% in 2003.
How does Estonia rank for share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in?
Estonia ranks 49th out of 155 countries with data for 2017.
Is share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in rising or falling in Estonia?
Over the last ten years it is up 59.2%. The long-run trend across the full record is rising.
Where does this Estonia data come from?
The figures come from UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020, published as part of Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%). Statizoid updates them automatically from the source API.

Download this data

CSV · JSON — 20 observations, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data).

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020. Retrieved 27 August 2026, from https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/share-of-female-students-in-upper-secondary-education-enrolled-in-vocational-programmes/estonia/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://reference.statizoid.com/stat/share-of-female-students-in-upper-secondary-education-enrolled-in-vocational-programmes/estonia/">Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in in Estonia</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Share of female students in upper secondary education enrolled in vocational programmes (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/). Data as of March 2020
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
200 places, 3,299 data points, 1997–2019
Last refreshed

Total number of female students enrolled in vocational programmes at the upper secondary education level, expressed as a percentage of the total number of female students enrolled in all programmes (vocational and general) at the upper secondary level. Vocational education is designed for learners to acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies specific to a particular occupation or trade or class of occupations or trades. Vocational education may have work-based components (e.g. apprenticeships). Successful completion of such programmes leads to labour-market relevant vocational qualifications acknowledged as occupationally-oriented by the relevant national authorities and/or the labour market.