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Pupil-qualified teacher ratio in primary education (headcount basis) by country

Average number of pupils per qualified teacher at a given level of education, based on headcounts of both pupils and teachers. Divide the total number of pupils enrolled at the specified level of education by the number of qualified teachers at the same level. A qualified teacher is one who has the minimum academic...

Countries reporting
56
Highest
68.94 headcount basis
Chad
Lowest
9.77 headcount basis
Brunei
Median
21.37 headcount basis
Years covered
14
2007–2020
Data points
547

What the numbers show

Pupil-qualified teacher ratio in primary education (headcount basis) is currently reported for 56 countries. The highest value is 68.94 headcount basis in Chad; the lowest is 9.77 headcount basis in Brunei.

The median across all reporting countries is 21.37 headcount basis, and the mean is 25.14 headcount basis.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 7.

Over the past decade 14 countries rose and 33 fell. The largest increase was in Maldives (up 76.0%), and the largest decrease in Belize (down 69.9%).

Pupil-qualified teacher ratio in primary education: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Chad 68.94 headcount basis 2019 — falling
2 Mozambique 57.13 headcount basis 2019 down 9.2% falling
3 Tanzania 55.18 headcount basis 2019 up 25.7% rising
4 Burundi 42.92 headcount basis 2019 down 10.3% falling
5 Gambia 42.23 headcount basis 2019 down 14.3% falling
6 Cambodia 41.94 headcount basis 2019 down 10.6% falling
7 Cote d'Ivoire 41.6 headcount basis 2019 down 9.1% falling
8 Burkina Faso 41.21 headcount basis 2019 down 23.5% falling
9 Benin 40.89 headcount basis 2019 down 37.4% falling
10 Niger 40.21 headcount basis 2019 up 10.7% rising
11 Madagascar 36.8 headcount basis 2019 down 12.4% falling
12 Palestine 33.97 headcount basis 2019 down 36.7% falling
13 Senegal 33.63 headcount basis 2019 up 1.0% flat
14 Mongolia 32.41 headcount basis 2018 up 17.0% rising
15 Bhutan 32.02 headcount basis 2020 down 20.0% falling
16 Solomon Islands 31.91 headcount basis 2018 up 5.1% flat
17 Djibouti 29.37 headcount basis 2018 — falling
18 Iran 28.52 headcount basis 2017 — rising
19 Eswatini 28.48 headcount basis 2018 down 33.3% falling
20 Ecuador 27.16 headcount basis 2018 down 13.0% flat
21 Philippines 27.13 headcount basis 2018 — falling
22 Morocco 25.8 headcount basis 2019 down 0.7% flat
23 Laos 24.77 headcount basis 2018 down 23.7% falling
24 Peru 24.08 headcount basis 2019 up 11.6% flat
25 Colombia 23.7 headcount basis 2017 — falling
26 Belize 23.35 headcount basis 2019 down 69.9% falling
27 Maldives 21.86 headcount basis 2019 up 76.0% rising
28 Bahamas 21.66 headcount basis 2018 up 12.2% flat
29 Uzbekistan 21.09 headcount basis 2019 up 36.7% rising
30 Jamaica 20.51 headcount basis 2019 down 34.0% falling
31 Nepal 20.4 headcount basis 2019 down 21.7% falling
32 Algeria 20.27 headcount basis 2019 down 14.3% falling
33 Dominican Republic 19.95 headcount basis 2018 down 31.0% falling
34 Albania 19.39 headcount basis 2019 down 30.8% falling
35 Belarus 19.23 headcount basis 2018 — rising
36 Kazakhstan 17.21 headcount basis 2019 up 2.1% rising
37 China 17.13 headcount basis 2019 — flat
38 Tunisia 16.87 headcount basis 2018 down 3.2% flat
39 Seychelles 16.64 headcount basis 2019 down 13.4% falling
40 Jordan 16.38 headcount basis 2019 down 3.2% flat
41 Mauritius 15.2 headcount basis 2019 down 23.2% falling
42 Saudi Arabia 14.67 headcount basis 2019 up 39.1% rising
43 Singapore 14.33 headcount basis 2018 down 29.0% falling
44 Barbados 14.23 headcount basis 2019 down 23.0% falling
45 Serbia 14.09 headcount basis 2019 down 7.1% falling
46 Macao 13.54 headcount basis 2019 down 1.2% flat
47 Hong Kong 13.19 headcount basis 2019 down 5.7% falling
48 Thailand 12.96 headcount basis 2019 down 15.8% falling
49 Cuba 12.65 headcount basis 2019 up 12.3% rising
50 Bahrain 12.24 headcount basis 2019 down 0.8% flat
51 Qatar 12.15 headcount basis 2019 up 21.5% rising
52 Costa Rica 11.92 headcount basis 2019 down 13.0% falling
53 Malaysia 11.66 headcount basis 2017 — flat
54 Uruguay 10.69 headcount basis 2018 down 10.6% falling
55 Andorra 10.52 headcount basis 2019 up 12.7% rising
56 Brunei 9.77 headcount basis 2019 — flat

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
Pupil-qualified teacher ratio in primary education (headcount basis)
Unit
headcount basis
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
86 places, 547 data points, 2007–2020
Last refreshed

Average number of pupils per qualified teacher at a given level of education, based on headcounts of both pupils and teachers. Divide the total number of pupils enrolled at the specified level of education by the number of qualified teachers at the same level. A qualified teacher is one who has the minimum academic qualifications necessary to teach at a specific level of education in a given country. This is usually related to the subject(s) they teach. In computing and interpreting this indicator, one should take into account the existence of part-time teaching, school-shifts, multi-grade classes and other practices that may affect the precision and meaningfulness of pupil-teacher ratios. When feasible, the number of part-time teachers is converted to ‘full-time equivalent’ teachers; a double-shift teacher is counted twice, etc. Teachers are defined as persons whose professional activity involves the transmitting of knowledge, attitudes and skills that are stipulated in a formal curriculum programme to students enrolled in a formal educational institution.