Countries with highest share of population with higher education

The United Arab Emirates was the country where the highest cumulative share of the population above 25 years had completed at least a bachelor's degree. 47.2 percent of the population in the country had some form of higher education as of 2021. Lithuania followed behind with 38.1 percent with the United States in third.

20 countries worldwide with the highest share of population with at least a bachelor's degree as of 2021

Characteristic	Share of adult population
United Arab Emirates (2021)	47.2%
Lithuania (2020)	38.1%
United States (2020)	37.5%
United Kingdom (2020	37.3%
Iceland (2020)	36.6%
Belgium (2019)	35.3%
Australia (2020)	35%
Netherlands (2020)	34.8%
Kazakhstan (2018)	34.1%
Georgia (2019)	33.7%
Denmark (2020)	33.1%
Singapore (2020)	33%
Mongolia (2020)	32.6%
New Zealand (2020)	32.3%
Ireland (2017)	31.2%
Bermuda (2016)	31.1%
Saudi Arabia (2020)	31.1%
Latvia (2019)	30.9%
Estonia (2020)	30.8%
Curacao (2020)	30.2%

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Release date

September 2023

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Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

2021*

Age group

25 years and older

Special properties

Cumulative

Supplementary notes

Please note that values were not available for a range of countries.

Countries for which values were only available in 2015 or earlier are not included.

* Year of value in brackets.

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