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Percentage of qualified teachers in 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...

Countries reporting
34
Highest
100.0%
Niger
Lowest
46.7%
Palestine, State of
Median
99.7%
Years covered
13
2007–2019
Data points
341

What the numbers show

Percentage of qualified teachers in secondary education, male (%) is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 100.0% in Niger; the lowest is 46.7% in Palestine, State of.

The median across all reporting countries is 99.7%, and the mean is 91.5%.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 2.

Over the past decade 11 countries rose and 3 fell. The largest increase was in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (up 174.0%), and the largest decrease in Peru (down 34.7%).

Percentage of qualified teachers in secondary education, male: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Niger 100.0% 2018 unchanged flat
1 Djibouti 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Hong Kong 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Jamaica 100.0% 2019 up 29.9% rising
1 Kazakhstan 100.0% 2019 — flat
1 Côte d'Ivoire 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Macao 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Mauritius 100.0% 2019 up 24.7% rising
1 Barbados 100.0% 2019 — flat
1 Qatar 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Saudi Arabia 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Bahrain 100.0% 2019 up 1.4% flat
1 Singapore 100.0% 2018 unchanged flat
1 Serbia 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
1 Andorra 100.0% 2019 unchanged flat
16 Belarus 99.9% 2018 — flat
17 Philippines 99.9% 2018 — flat
18 Burundi 99.6% 2019 up 46.6% rising
19 Colombia 99.4% 2017 — flat
20 Costa Rica 99.1% 2019 up 0.8% flat
21 Burkina Faso 98.9% 2019 — flat
22 Gambia 95.8% 2019 up 2.0% rising
23 Albania 94.4% 2017 — rising
24 China 93.4% 2019 — flat
25 Brunei Darussalam 91.7% 2019 — flat
26 Ecuador 90.8% 2018 up 9.2% rising
27 Tanzania, United Republic of 89.7% 2019 down 7.3% falling
28 Seychelles 89.3% 2019 up 7.6% rising
29 Panama 83.1% 2017 — falling
30 Bahamas 74.0% 2018 down 7.9% flat
31 Belize 60.6% 2019 up 53.6% rising
32 Peru 54.4% 2019 down 34.7% falling
33 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 50.2% 2018 up 174.0% rising
34 Palestine, State of 46.7% 2019 up 113.6% rising

Regions and income groups

Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Indicator
Percentage of qualified teachers in secondary education, male (%)
Unit
%
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
57 places, 341 data points, 2007–2019
Last refreshed

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/