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Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications in primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) by country

The Adjusted Gender Parity Index (GPIA) is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. If the resulting value exceeds 1, the ratio is inverted and subtracted from 2. The adjusted gender parity index is symmetrical around 1 and lies in the range 0-2. An adjusted GPI...

Countries reporting
99
Highest
1.41 GPIA
Madagascar
Lowest
0 GPIA
Gibraltar
Median
1 GPIA
Years covered
23
1998–2020
Data points
1,544

What the numbers show

Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications in primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA) is currently reported for 99 countries. The highest value is 1.41 GPIA in Madagascar; the lowest is 0 GPIA in Gibraltar.

The median across all reporting countries is 1 GPIA, and the mean is 1.03 GPIA.

Over the past decade 42 countries rose and 42 fell. The largest increase was in Equatorial Guinea (up 56.0%), and the largest decrease in Gibraltar (down 100.0%).

Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications in pri: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Madagascar 1.41 GPIA 2019 up 13.3% rising
2 Trinidad and Tobago 1.38 GPIA 2009 up 44.9% rising
3 Kuwait 1.35 GPIA 2015 up 34.8% rising
4 Antigua and Barbuda 1.34 GPIA 2018 up 32.1% rising
5 Mongolia 1.31 GPIA 2018 up 30.6% rising
6 Sao Tome and Principe 1.3 GPIA 2017 up 24.2% rising
7 Nicaragua 1.23 GPIA 2010 down 5.8% flat
8 Bahamas 1.2 GPIA 2018 up 18.1% rising
9 Sierra Leone 1.19 GPIA 2019 down 11.1% falling
10 Congo 1.18 GPIA 2012 down 11.9% falling
11 Guinea 1.18 GPIA 2016 up 5.2% rising
12 Barbados 1.16 GPIA 2019 up 14.2% rising
13 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.15 GPIA 2018 up 1.4% flat
14 Nigeria 1.15 GPIA 2010 down 0.4% falling
15 Equatorial Guinea 1.15 GPIA 2015 up 56.0% rising
16 Saint Lucia 1.14 GPIA 2019 up 6.9% rising
17 Grenada 1.13 GPIA 2018 up 7.8% flat
18 Ghana 1.11 GPIA 2019 down 21.9% falling
19 Guyana 1.11 GPIA 2012 up 11.5% rising
20 Burkina Faso 1.1 GPIA 2019 up 2.0% rising
21 Dominica 1.07 GPIA 2019 down 23.3% falling
22 Liberia 1.06 GPIA 2017 down 6.3% falling
23 Colombia 1.05 GPIA 2017 up 4.7% rising
24 Lesotho 1.04 GPIA 2016 down 18.8% falling
25 Kiribati 1.04 GPIA 2016 up 2.2% flat
26 Cameroon 1.04 GPIA 2017 down 8.6% flat
27 Eritrea 1.04 GPIA 2018 down 0.4% rising
28 Bolivia 1.04 GPIA 2018 down 2.3% flat
29 Bangladesh 1.04 GPIA 2017 up 0.1% flat
30 El Salvador 1.03 GPIA 2018 down 0.3% flat
31 Gambia 1.03 GPIA 2019 up 3.8% rising
32 Cape Verde 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 4.5% falling
33 Mexico 1.02 GPIA 2018 down 1.7% flat
34 Aruba 1.02 GPIA 2012 up 2.0% flat
35 Rwanda 1.02 GPIA 2019 up 5.6% flat
36 Hong Kong 1.02 GPIA 2019 down 0.3% flat
37 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.02 GPIA 2016 up 18.9% rising
38 Mozambique 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 10.4% falling
39 Ecuador 1.01 GPIA 2007 up 0.3% flat
40 Malawi 1.01 GPIA 2013 up 13.1% rising
41 Eswatini 1.01 GPIA 2017 down 0.7% flat
42 Macao 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 13.3% falling
43 Azerbaijan 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 0.8% flat
44 Singapore 1.01 GPIA 2018 up 0.6% flat
45 Niger 1.01 GPIA 2019 down 0.5% rising
46 Mauritania 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 0.7% flat
47 Vietnam 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 0.0% falling
48 Malaysia 1.01 GPIA 2019 up 0.6% flat
49 Kyrgyzstan 1 GPIA 2017 up 0.3% rising
50 Botswana 1 GPIA 2013 down 5.0% falling
51 Dominican Republic 1 GPIA 2018 up 0.9% falling
52 Tanzania 1 GPIA 2016 up 0.0% flat
53 Andorra 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 United Arab Emirates 1 GPIA 2016 up 17.7% rising
53 Burundi 1 GPIA 2019 down 6.3% falling
53 Bahrain 1 GPIA 2019 down 1.8% flat
53 Bermuda 1 GPIA 2016 unchanged flat
53 Bhutan 1 GPIA 2020 down 1.5% flat
53 Cote d'Ivoire 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Democratic Republic of Congo 1 GPIA 2018 down 2.9% flat
53 Cuba 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Cayman Islands 1 GPIA 2018 down 9.5% falling
53 Algeria 1 GPIA 2015 down 0.9% flat
53 Croatia 1 GPIA 2003 — flat
53 Iran 1 GPIA 2017 — flat
53 Jamaica 1 GPIA 2019 down 6.6% falling
53 Jordan 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Kazakhstan 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Cambodia 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Morocco 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Moldova 1 GPIA 2019 up 6.7% rising
53 Mauritius 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Oman 1 GPIA 2019 — flat
53 Philippines 1 GPIA 2018 — flat
53 Palestine 1 GPIA 2019 unchanged flat
53 Qatar 1 GPIA 2019 up 47.1% flat
53 Saudi Arabia 1 GPIA 2019 up 11.0% rising
53 Tajikistan 1 GPIA 2017 up 3.5% flat
53 Tunisia 1 GPIA 2018 unchanged flat
81 Uzbekistan 0.9997 GPIA 2019 down 0.0% flat
82 Costa Rica 0.9997 GPIA 2019 up 0.4% flat
83 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.9982 GPIA 2018 up 12.7% rising
84 Kenya 0.9977 GPIA 2008 down 0.7% flat
85 Panama 0.9969 GPIA 2017 up 3.4% rising
86 Belarus 0.9955 GPIA 2018 down 0.3% flat
87 Benin 0.9895 GPIA 2019 down 12.0% falling
88 Laos 0.9881 GPIA 2019 down 6.6% falling
89 Myanmar 0.9862 GPIA 2018 down 0.4% flat
90 Nepal 0.9756 GPIA 2019 down 0.7% rising
91 Seychelles 0.9584 GPIA 2019 down 8.2% falling
92 Solomon Islands 0.9527 GPIA 2018 down 0.3% flat
93 British Virgin Islands 0.9487 GPIA 2018 down 22.2% falling
94 Maldives 0.9475 GPIA 2019 down 0.4% flat
95 Senegal 0.9377 GPIA 2019 up 26.8% flat
96 Brunei 0.9354 GPIA 2019 up 6.1% rising
97 Togo 0.8697 GPIA 2019 down 9.6% falling
98 Belize 0.7581 GPIA 2019 down 30.3% falling
99 Pakistan 0.7498 GPIA 2019 down 9.3% flat
100 Gibraltar 0 GPIA 2019 down 100.0% falling

Regions and income groups

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

About this data

Indicator
Proportion of teachers with the minimum required qualifications in primary education, adjusted gender parity index (GPIA)
Unit
GPIA
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
129 places, 1,544 data points, 1998–2020
Last refreshed

The Adjusted Gender Parity Index (GPIA) is calculated by dividing the female value for the indicator by the male value for the indicator. If the resulting value exceeds 1, the ratio is inverted and subtracted from 2. The adjusted gender parity index is symmetrical around 1 and lies in the range 0-2. An adjusted GPI equal to 1 indicates parity between females and males. In general, a value less than 1 indicates disparity in favor of males and a value greater than 1 indicates disparity in favor of females. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute for Statistics: http://uis.unesco.org/