Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, female (%) 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, female (%) is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Cambodia; the lowest is 58.9% in Palestine, State of.
The median across all reporting countries is 99.0%, and the mean is 92.9%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.
Over the past decade 10 countries rose and 1 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine, State of (up 88.6%), and the largest decrease in Maldives (down 25.9%).
Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, female: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cambodia | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bahrain | 100.0% | 2019 | up 4.6% | flat |
| 1 | Iran | 100.0% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2018 | — | flat |
| 1 | Macao | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Barbados | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 1 | Niger | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bhutan | 100.0% | 2020 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Serbia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Qatar | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Djibouti | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 13 | Colombia | 99.6% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 99.0% | 2019 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 15 | China | 97.6% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 16 | Albania | 96.5% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 17 | Gambia | 95.9% | 2019 | up 2.5% | rising |
| 18 | Eritrea | 93.6% | 2018 | up 5.2% | flat |
| 19 | Ecuador | 93.2% | 2018 | up 12.6% | rising |
| 20 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 90.0% | 2018 | up 2.9% | flat |
| 21 | Brunei Darussalam | 87.9% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 22 | Bahamas | 84.6% | 2018 | up 2.1% | rising |
| 23 | Nepal | 83.9% | 2019 | up 8.3% | rising |
| 24 | Panama | 83.6% | 2017 | — | falling |
| 25 | Maldives | 73.0% | 2019 | down 25.9% | falling |
| 26 | Belize | 70.0% | 2019 | up 69.2% | rising |
| 27 | Palestine, State of | 58.9% | 2019 | up 88.6% | 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 91.2%
- East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 97.7%
- East Asia & Pacific 97.4%
- Late-demographic dividend 96.8%
- Upper middle income 96.5%
- IBRD only 93.9%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 92.8%
- Middle income 92.6%
- Low & middle income 92.3%
- Other small states 92.3%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 92.2%
- Arab World 91.9%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 91.7%
- Early-demographic dividend 90.3%
- Small states 89.8%
- IDA only 86.1%
- South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 84.7%
- South Asia 84.7%
- Least developed countries 84.3%
- Low income 82.5%
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/