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| Table 472. | Percentage of bachelor's and higher level degrees awarded to women, by field of study and country: 2010 |
| Country | All fields1 | Education | Humanities and arts | Health and welfare | Social sciences, business and law | Personal, transport, environmental protection, and security services | Engineering, manufactur- ing, and construction |
Sciences, mathematics, and computer science | Agricul- ture |
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| Total | Life sciences | Physical sciences | Mathematics and statistics | Computer science | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 |
| OECD average2 | 58.0 | 77.4 | 66.6 | 74.2 | 57.6 | 52.4 | 27.2 | 41.6 | 64.2 | 43.8 | 45.9 | 19.7 | 53.6 |
| Australia3 | 56.7 | 74.6 | 63.8 | 75.3 | 53.9 | 55.0 | 24.3 | 37.3 | 55.1 | 48.1 | 39.9 | 19.6 | 55.4 |
| Austria | 53.1 | 78.7 | 66.4 | 66.1 | 56.0 | 44.5 | 24.7 | 35.0 | 66.8 | 34.9 | 37.0 | 15.4 | 62.6 |
| Belgium | 54.6 | 75.9 | 65.3 | 65.5 | 58.0 | 39.2 | 25.4 | 35.5 | 51.4 | 33.2 | 44.4 | 10.3 | 54.3 |
| Canada3 | 59.8 | 76.7 | 64.6 | 83.4 | 57.8 | 59.6 | 23.5 | 49.0 | 62.6 | 44.8 | 42.4 | 17.9 | 57.5 |
| Chile | 56.6 | 72.2 | 60.2 | 70.0 | 51.5 | 52.4 | 26.1 | 33.0 | 52.4 | 41.8 | 47.7 | 16.6 | 47.8 |
| Czech Republic | 59.3 | 79.6 | 71.5 | 79.2 | 67.3 | 42.7 | 23.9 | 38.6 | 70.4 | 46.6 | 51.7 | 12.5 | 59.9 |
| Denmark | 59.7 | 74.4 | 65.5 | 80.1 | 52.3 | 23.0 | 32.0 | 37.3 | 67.4 | 38.4 | 36.2 | 20.9 | 72.9 |
| Estonia | 68.8 | 97.4 | 80.8 | 85.3 | 71.4 | 68.3 | 37.8 | 49.5 | 72.1 | 51.2 | 82.5 | 25.3 | 56.5 |
| Finland | 60.0 | 81.7 | 74.3 | 86.4 | 66.4 | 76.4 | 21.5 | 46.3 | 76.2 | 50.3 | 47.5 | 28.4 | 55.3 |
| France3 | 54.5 | 76.4 | 71.8 | 60.2 | 60.5 | 42.5 | 30.1 | 37.6 | 62.7 | 38.7 | 36.1 | 15.8 | 54.8 |
| Germany | 55.3 | 73.7 | 73.1 | 69.4 | 53.5 | 55.1 | 22.0 | 44.3 | 67.4 | 42.7 | 61.4 | 15.3 | 54.1 |
| Greece | 61.8 | 76.1 | 78.2 | 59.4 | 64.5 | # | 40.7 | 47.6 | 69.1 | 49.3 | 47.9 | 38.5 | 47.6 |
| Hungary | 63.5 | 80.2 | 73.4 | 78.1 | 67.9 | 60.6 | 22.6 | 39.4 | 70.2 | 47.8 | 54.7 | 17.7 | 48.9 |
| Iceland | 67.0 | 83.8 | 68.8 | 87.6 | 59.0 | 69.8 | 40.3 | 47.9 | 73.5 | 43.4 | 23.1 | 18.8 | 63.2 |
| Ireland | 57.4 | 76.1 | 61.6 | 80.3 | 54.4 | 52.2 | 20.7 | 42.0 | 59.8 | 44.4 | 30.8 | 21.9 | 52.8 |
| Israel | 57.4 | 81.1 | 59.5 | 76.9 | 56.2 | 72.7 | 26.3 | 44.1 | 62.8 | 40.2 | 37.4 | 25.1 | 54.2 |
| Italy | 59.4 | 91.5 | 74.3 | 67.9 | 58.0 | 50.3 | 32.7 | 52.4 | 70.9 | 40.7 | 53.4 | 15.0 | 33.0 |
| Japan | 41.6 | 59.4 | 68.8 | 56.4 | 35.3 | 90.2 | 11.1 | 25.6 | — | — | — | — | 38.4 |
| Korea, Republic of | 47.2 | 71.1 | 66.6 | 65.0 | 43.5 | 34.3 | 23.3 | 39.2 | 48.4 | 46.9 | 54.8 | 20.9 | 39.4 |
| Mexico | 55.0 | 72.9 | 58.3 | 65.7 | 59.2 | 25.0 | 28.5 | 48.0 | 59.2 | 40.3 | 44.2 | 41.7 | 35.4 |
| Netherlands | 56.7 | 79.7 | 57.3 | 74.7 | 53.3 | 53.2 | 19.5 | 22.7 | 62.3 | 24.2 | 32.0 | 10.9 | 55.2 |
| New Zealand | 60.6 | 80.7 | 63.9 | 79.2 | 56.7 | 53.0 | 30.2 | 44.3 | 58.9 | 45.8 | 47.8 | 23.6 | 55.1 |
| Norway | 60.9 | 74.9 | 58.7 | 82.5 | 55.7 | 46.0 | 26.7 | 36.2 | 74.7 | 38.5 | 31.1 | 19.7 | 57.8 |
| Poland | 65.7 | 80.2 | 76.1 | 74.9 | 68.6 | 55.6 | 33.3 | 45.4 | 73.1 | 65.3 | 66.3 | 16.0 | 56.2 |
| Portugal | 60.1 | 84.7 | 61.1 | 78.3 | 62.6 | 45.6 | 30.9 | 54.2 | 69.6 | 49.2 | 60.2 | 23.7 | 58.0 |
| Slovak Republic | 64.2 | 78.2 | 69.2 | 83.7 | 68.8 | 44.3 | 31.4 | 42.9 | 69.8 | 53.0 | 54.9 | 11.7 | 47.1 |
| Slovenia | 65.1 | 84.0 | 77.5 | 77.0 | 69.0 | 58.6 | 32.8 | 49.7 | 72.9 | 44.7 | 52.9 | 13.4 | 63.6 |
| Spain | 59.4 | 75.6 | 64.6 | 76.3 | 60.2 | 55.9 | 33.9 | 41.0 | 66.9 | 51.3 | 51.1 | 19.0 | 48.8 |
| Sweden | 63.7 | 79.7 | 62.3 | 82.7 | 60.9 | 51.5 | 29.4 | 47.0 | 66.1 | 48.3 | 36.2 | 24.4 | 63.6 |
| Switzerland | 50.7 | 71.8 | 62.2 | 68.4 | 46.9 | 51.6 | 19.5 | 34.4 | 52.9 | 32.3 | 31.8 | 8.2 | 71.0 |
| Turkey | 46.1 | 57.0 | 58.0 | 60.6 | 42.5 | 31.7 | 28.1 | 44.8 | 60.9 | 43.3 | 49.1 | 23.3 | 33.3 |
| United Kingdom | 55.2 | 75.9 | 62.2 | 74.0 | 54.3 | 61.2 | 22.6 | 37.5 | 50.8 | 42.6 | 40.3 | 18.7 | 65.8 |
| United States | 57.7 | 77.8 | 58.9 | 79.3 | 54.4 | 55.0 | 21.7 | 43.5 | 57.9 | 39.4 | 41.6 | 21.1 | 50.6 |
| Other reporting countries | |||||||||||||
| Argentina3 | 59.7 | 80.0 | 71.4 | 67.7 | 60.7 | 46.8 | 31.8 | 50.3 | 71.1 | 60.2 | 69.2 | 27.2 | 38.3 |
| Brazil | 62.8 | 76.8 | 52.4 | 77.2 | 57.0 | 71.4 | 28.3 | 37.8 | 72.0 | 45.1 | 45.7 | 18.4 | 40.7 |
| China | 46.8 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Indonesia | 53.1 | 55.5 | 52.3 | 53.3 | 55.2 | # | 50.7 | 52.8 | # | 53.0 | 52.3 | 53.0 | 52.4 |
| Saudi Arabia | 65.0 | 70.1 | 71.8 | 50.2 | 58.1 | — | 3.6 | 73.4 | 81.3 | 75.3 | 79.0 | 59.4 | 24.0 |
| South Africa3 | 58.1 | 73.3 | 63.1 | 73.3 | 57.9 | 70.4 | 27.0 | 46.5 | 64.9 | 48.8 | 37.6 | 34.3 | 45.9 |
| —Not available. | |||||||||||||
| #Rounds to zero. | |||||||||||||
| 1 May contain fields not shown in this table. | |||||||||||||
| 2 Refers to the mean of the data values for all reporting Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, to which each country reporting data contributes equally. | |||||||||||||
| 3 Data are for 2009 instead of 2010. | |||||||||||||
| NOTE: Data in this table refer to degrees classified by OECD as International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) level 5A (first and second award) or level 6. ISCED 5A, first award, corresponds to the bachelor's degree in the United States; ISCED 5A, second award, corresponds to master's and first-professional degrees in the United States; and ISCED 6 corresponds to doctor's degrees. Data for Luxembourg are not shown because tertiary students study for only 1 year in Luxembourg. | |||||||||||||
| SOURCE: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Education at a Glance, 2012. (This table was prepared June 2012.) |
