Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, male (%) 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, male (%) is currently reported for 27 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Qatar; the lowest is 47.5% in Palestine, State of.
The median across all reporting countries is 99.0%, and the mean is 91.2%.
The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.
Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 2 fell. The largest increase was in Palestine, State of (up 99.5%), and the largest decrease in Maldives (down 20.8%).
Percentage of qualified teachers in lower secondary education, male: full country ranking
| # | Country | Latest | Year | 10-year change | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Qatar | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Cambodia | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Iran, Islamic Republic of | 100.0% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 1 | Macao | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Niger | 100.0% | 2018 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Djibouti | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 1 | Saudi Arabia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Serbia | 100.0% | 2019 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Bhutan | 100.0% | 2020 | unchanged | flat |
| 1 | Barbados | 100.0% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 1 | Belarus | 100.0% | 2018 | — | flat |
| 1 | Bahrain | 100.0% | 2019 | up 1.6% | flat |
| 13 | Colombia | 99.4% | 2017 | — | flat |
| 14 | Costa Rica | 99.0% | 2019 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 15 | China | 98.3% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 16 | Gambia | 95.1% | 2019 | up 1.6% | rising |
| 17 | Albania | 93.0% | 2017 | — | rising |
| 18 | Nepal | 91.5% | 2019 | up 15.7% | rising |
| 19 | Ecuador | 89.1% | 2018 | up 12.1% | rising |
| 20 | Lao People's Democratic Republic | 87.1% | 2018 | up 6.3% | rising |
| 21 | Brunei Darussalam | 86.5% | 2019 | — | flat |
| 22 | Eritrea | 85.7% | 2018 | up 0.7% | flat |
| 23 | Panama | 84.3% | 2017 | — | falling |
| 24 | Maldives | 78.6% | 2019 | down 20.8% | falling |
| 25 | Bahamas | 68.6% | 2018 | down 6.4% | falling |
| 26 | Belize | 58.9% | 2019 | up 44.4% | rising |
| 27 | Palestine, State of | 47.5% | 2019 | up 99.5% | 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) 97.6%
- World 88.4%
- East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) 97.6%
- Late-demographic dividend 97.4%
- East Asia & Pacific 97.3%
- Upper middle income 96.2%
- IBRD only 92.0%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan 90.0%
- Middle income 89.9%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (IDA & IBRD) 89.8%
- Arab World 89.0%
- Middle East, North Africa, Afghanistan & Pakistan (excluding high income) 88.8%
- Low & middle income 88.7%
- Early-demographic dividend 87.6%
- South Asia (IDA & IBRD) 84.6%
- South Asia 84.6%
- Small states 79.8%
- Other small states 78.9%
- IDA only 78.8%
- Least developed countries 77.0%
- Low income 76.2%
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/