Individuals with tertiary Education as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Teachers by country

Countries reporting
26
Highest
1
Paraguay
Lowest
0.1654
Australia
Median
0.9697
Years covered
21
2000–2020
Data points
264

What the numbers show

Individuals with tertiary Education as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Teachers is currently reported for 26 countries. The highest value is 1 in Paraguay; the lowest is 0.1654 in Australia.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.9697, and the mean is 0.8865.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 6.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 8 fell. The largest increase was in Zambia (up 55.2%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 8.7%).

Individuals with tertiary Education as a share of public paid: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Paraguay 1 2010 unchanged flat
1 Philippines 1 2018 unchanged flat
1 Dominican Republic 1 2015 unchanged flat
1 Honduras 1 2019 up 9.5% rising
5 Jordan 0.9995 2016 down 0.1% flat
6 Ethiopia 0.9925 2016 up 26.6% rising
7 Chile 0.9924 2015 up 1.2% rising
8 Viet Nam 0.9909 2019 up 0.6% flat
9 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.9869 2017 flat
10 Palestine, State of 0.9821 2017 down 1.6% flat
11 South Africa 0.982 2020 up 24.1% rising
12 Costa Rica 0.9782 2012 up 1.6% flat
13 Ecuador 0.9747 2017 down 2.4% flat
14 Georgia 0.9648 2013 up 4.3% flat
15 El Salvador 0.9497 2017 down 4.2% flat
16 Uruguay 0.9437 2016 up 2.5% flat
17 Mexico 0.9259 2019 up 13.1% rising
18 Brazil 0.9243 2016 down 4.9% flat
19 Zambia 0.9226 2015 up 55.2% rising
20 Mongolia 0.9189 2018 up 1.4% rising
21 Republic of Moldova 0.8202 2015 down 2.2% falling
22 Pakistan 0.7447 2014 down 1.3% falling
23 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.7195 2014 up 35.9% rising
24 Peru 0.6773 2015 down 8.7% flat
25 Sri Lanka 0.4918 2016 up 43.9% rising
26 Australia 0.1654 2015 up 0.5% flat

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Indicator
Individuals with tertiary Education as a share of public paid employees, by occupation: Teachers
Source
World Bank
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
26 places, 264 data points, 2000–2020
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