Table

Age groups and level of degree for graduations in higher education
	2009-2010		2018-2019		2019-2020
	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	38 004	60.9	53 974	60.0	53 959	59.8
Tertiary education, short and medium¹	25 986	64.3	36 284	61.4	36 352	61.3
19-24 years	13 036	67.1	20 691	62.9	20 986	62.6
25-29 years	6 638	57.1	8 544	55.0	8 590	55.2
30-34 years	2 270	62.3	2 931	60.4	2 924	62.0
35-39 years	1 558	68.5	1 617	66.9	1 561	66.1
40-44 years	1 235	71.3	1 122	68.1	1 034	68.6
45-49 years	753	68.3	777	72.6	711	68.4
50-54 years	360	61.4	428	68.5	375	67.2
55-59 years	105	52.4	140	66.4	133	57.1
60 years or older	31	41.9	34	47.1	38	47.4
Tertiary education, long²	10 816	54.4	16 095	57.7	16 069	57.6
19-24 years	2 041	51.2	3 582	58.6	3 553	59.4
25-29 years	5 392	51.7	7 669	54.6	7 661	53.7
30-34 years	1 240	54.4	1 824	53.7	1 850	56.4
35-39 years	681	56.5	918	61.0	940	62.3
40-44 years	527	63.9	724	66.4	757	64.5
45-49 years	441	70.3	674	73.6	644	73.1
50-54 years	302	71.2	431	74.0	439	67.2
55-59 years	137	70.1	212	66.5	181	70.2
60 years or older	55	52.7	61	52.5	44	54.5
Second stage of tertiary education³	1 202	44.8	1 595	49.3	1 538	49.0
25-29 years	176	32.4	253	42.3	273	39.2
30-34 years	372	44.1	555	45.9	512	43.9
35-39 years	276	44.6	323	47.1	298	50.3
40-44 years	146	47.9	210	54.3	169	54.4
45-49 years	96	52.1	115	60.9	126	65.1
50-54 years	75	54.7	66	69.7	74	59.5
55-59 years	36	66.7	42	71.4	52	61.5
60 years or older	25	36.0	31	41.9	34	61.8