Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, both sexes (%) by country
Percentage of teachers by level of education taught (pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education) who have at least the minimum academic qualifications required for teaching their subjects at the relevant level in a given country, in a given academic year. A high value indicates that...
What the numbers show
Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, both sexes (%) is currently reported for 32 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Cambodia; the lowest is 54.2% in Palestine.
The median across all reporting countries is 98.5%, and the mean is 91.6%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.
Over the past decade 12 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine (up 95.9%), and the largest decrease in Maldives (down 23.9%).
Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, both: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambodia | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bahrain | 100.0% | 2019 | up 3.4% | flat |
| 1 | Uzbekistan | 100.0% | 2017 | up 1.4% | flat |
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2018 | — | flat |
| 1 | Iran | 100.0% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 1 | Barbados | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 1 | Macao | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bhutan | 100.0% | 2020 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Thailand | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 1 | Niger | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Serbia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Djibouti | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Qatar | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 15 | Colombia | 99.5% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 16 | Costa Rica | 99.0% | 2019 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 17 | China | 97.9% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 18 | Albania | 95.3% | 2017 | — | rising |
| 19 | Gambia | 95.3% | 2019 | up 1.9% | rising |
| 20 | Ecuador | 91.6% | 2018 | up 12.4% | rising |
| 21 | Nepal | 89.2% | 2019 | up 13.4% | rising |
| 22 | Laos | 88.6% | 2018 | up 4.5% | flat |
| 23 | Eritrea | 87.5% | 2018 | up 2.1% | flat |
| 24 | Brunei | 87.5% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 25 | Panama | 83.9% | 2017 | — | falling |
| 26 | Sri Lanka | 81.7% | 2018 | down 8.4% | falling |
| 27 | Bahamas | 81.0% | 2018 | up 0.5% | flat |
| 28 | Suriname | 80.6% | 2018 | up 23.8% | rising |
| 29 | Cuba | 77.6% | 2019 | down 6.9% | falling |
| 30 | Maldives | 75.3% | 2019 | down 23.9% | falling |
| 31 | Belize | 66.1% | 2019 | up 60.6% | rising |
| 32 | Palestine | 54.2% | 2019 | up 95.9% | rising |
Regions and income groups
Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.
- East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) 97.7%
- World 90.0%
- East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 97.7%
- East Asia & Pacific 97.4%
- Late-demographic dividend 97.0%
- Upper middle income 96.4%
- IBRD only 93.1%
- Middle income 91.5%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 91.3%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 91.1%
- Low & middle income 90.7%
- Arab World 90.5%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 90.3%
- Early-demographic dividend 89.0%
- Other small states 85.0%
- Small states 84.8%
- South Asia 84.7%
- South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 84.7%
- IDA only 81.3%
- Least developed countries 79.4%
- Low income 78.1%
About this data
Percentage of teachers by level of education taught (pre-primary, primary, lower secondary and upper secondary education) who have at least the minimum academic qualifications required for teaching their subjects at the relevant level in a given country, in a given academic year. A high value indicates that students are being taught by teachers who are academically well qualified in the subjects they teach. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/