Tertiary Education - Student Numbers
Worldmapper provides an arresting visualization of a range of global data - below, tertiary education. It would be nice to be able to see this a different projection, however, so countries away from the equator weren’t stretched out as thin ribbons. Somehow the eye more easily assesses the comparative size of one blob against the other.
The write up got me confused - I think the map depicts the proportion of global population enrolled in tertiary education who live in each country. But does it show, for example, proportion of total global students in Chinese universities? Or, are Chinese students enrolled in foreign universities and we’re seeing the proportion of total global students who are Chinese?
The authors comment: “The highest percentage of the student aged population enrolled is in Finland. Finland is 3.6 times the world average, with 140 times the chance of a tertiary education than in Mozambique…”