Table

Age groups and level of degree for graduations in higher education
	2008-2009		2017-2018		2018-2019
	Graduates	Percentage women	Graduates	Percentage women	Graduates	Percentage women
¹Including graduations from programmes 4 years or less but also 2 years or longer.
²Including graduations from programmes longer than 4 years. Awarded doctoral degrees are not included.
³Doctoral degrees
Level and age
Total	35 203	61.3	52 094	60.4	53 974	60.0
Tertiary education, short and medium¹	24 264	64.1	35 156	62.3	36 284	61.4
19-24 years	11 886	66.8	19 765	64.7	20 691	62.9
25-29 years	6 262	57.6	8 579	55.6	8 544	55.0
30-34 years	2 276	60.0	2 788	62.0	2 931	60.4
35-39 years	1 511	67.6	1 605	64.9	1 617	66.9
40-44 years	1 211	70.7	1 069	67.5	1 122	68.1
45-49 years	703	70.6	761	64.4	777	72.6
50-54 years	317	69.1	390	70.5	428	68.5
55-59 years	79	44.3	166	50.6	140	66.4
60 years or older	19	31.6	33	36.4	34	47.1
Tertiary education, long²	9 855	56.1	15 438	57.1	16 095	57.7
19-24 years	1 967	52.8	3 299	57.4	3 582	58.6
25-29 years	4 930	54.4	7 434	54.4	7 669	54.6
30-34 years	1 152	54.0	1 758	54.6	1 824	53.7
35-39 years	593	56.2	927	57.2	918	61.0
40-44 years	467	68.5	796	66.2	724	66.4
45-49 years	374	69.8	582	71.0	674	73.6
50-54 years	231	75.8	413	72.6	431	74.0
55-59 years	108	69.4	161	68.3	212	66.5
60 years or older	33	54.5	68	55.9	61	52.5
Second stage of tertiary education³	1 084	45.8	1 500	50.4	1 595	49.3
25-29 years	132	39.4	251	36.7	253	42.3
30-34 years	392	41.1	480	47.1	555	45.9
35-39 years	223	54.3	303	54.1	323	47.1
40-44 years	126	39.7	201	60.2	210	54.3
45-49 years	82	48.8	128	58.6	115	60.9
50-54 years	64	48.4	71	57.7	66	69.7
55-59 years	41	61.0	37	56.8	42	71.4
60 years or older	24	66.7	29	55.2	31	41.9