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Education > College and university Stats: compare key data on Poland & United States

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  • Gender parity index: Country's gender parity index for college and university enrollment. For countries with a rating of over 1, more females are enrolled while countries with a rating under 1 have more males enrolled.
  • Gender ratio: Ratio of female to male tertiary enrollment is the percentage of men to women enrolled at tertiary level in public and private schools.
  • Private school share: Percentage of post-secondary students who attend a private school, college, or university.
  • Share of total education spending: Percentage of government education funding that goes to post-secondary education.
  • Teachers > Proportion of teachers female: Percentage of country's college and university professors that are female.
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STAT Poland United States HISTORY
Gender parity index 1.5
Ranked 22nd. 7% more than United States 		1.41
Ranked 33th.
Gender ratio 139.6
Ranked 32nd. 		140.06
Ranked 29th. About the same as Poland
Private school share 31.37%
Ranked 42nd. 12% more than United States 		27.95%
Ranked 46th.
Share of total education spending 22.77%
Ranked 37th. 		25.65%
Ranked 26th. 13% more than Poland
Teachers > Proportion of teachers female 43%
Ranked 13th. 		47%
Ranked 7th. 9% more than Poland

SOURCES: United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables; United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics.; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Source tables; United Nations Statistics Division. Source tables

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