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Pupil-trained teacher ratio in secondary education (headcount basis) by country

Average number of pupils per trained 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 trained teachers at the same level. A trained teacher is defined as a teacher who has fulfilled...

Countries reporting
69
Highest
113.53 headcount basis
Gibraltar
Lowest
4.98 headcount basis
Bermuda
Median
17.76 headcount basis
Years covered
49
1971–2019
Data points
924

What the numbers show

Pupil-trained teacher ratio in secondary education (headcount basis) is currently reported for 69 countries. The highest value is 113.53 headcount basis in Gibraltar; the lowest is 4.98 headcount basis in Bermuda.

The median across all reporting countries is 17.76 headcount basis, and the mean is 23.73 headcount basis.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 23.

Over the past decade 18 countries rose and 45 fell. The largest increase was in Gibraltar (up 1,743.0%), and the largest decrease in Bhutan (down 62.1%).

Pupil-trained teacher ratio in secondary education: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Gibraltar 113.53 headcount basis 2019 up 1,743.0% volatile
2 Malawi 63.52 headcount basis 2013 down 19.6% falling
3 Bangladesh 63.39 headcount basis 2019 up 10.5% flat
4 Nicaragua 58.65 headcount basis 2010 down 18.2% falling
5 Peru 56.15 headcount basis 2019 up 209.1% volatile
6 Belize 49.99 headcount basis 2019 up 1.3% falling
7 Mozambique 46.73 headcount basis 2015 down 15.9% falling
8 Eritrea 46.24 headcount basis 2013 down 58.5% falling
9 Guyana 37.35 headcount basis 2010 up 29.3% rising
10 Burkina Faso 36.53 headcount basis 2019 down 28.7% falling
11 Rwanda 34.64 headcount basis 2017 down 16.1% falling
12 Nepal 33.94 headcount basis 2019 down 51.3% falling
13 Barbados 33.72 headcount basis 2019 up 32.1% rising
14 Mauritania 31.1 headcount basis 2019 up 18.7% rising
15 Myanmar 30.62 headcount basis 2018 down 13.2% falling
16 El Salvador 29.8 headcount basis 2018 down 0.9% flat
17 Senegal 28.12 headcount basis 2015 — falling
18 Grenada 27.68 headcount basis 2018 down 51.2% falling
19 Dominican Republic 26.67 headcount basis 2015 down 14.4% falling
20 Burundi 26.6 headcount basis 2018 down 34.5% falling
21 Colombia 26.45 headcount basis 2017 up 1.1% flat
22 Thailand 26.25 headcount basis 2019 down 11.1% falling
23 Lesotho 26.07 headcount basis 2016 down 11.9% flat
24 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 25.71 headcount basis 2015 down 23.3% falling
25 Mauritius 25.59 headcount basis 2019 down 22.8% falling
26 Namibia 25.27 headcount basis 2007 up 18.3% rising
27 Philippines 25.04 headcount basis 2018 — falling
28 Sri Lanka 22.13 headcount basis 2018 up 1.1% flat
29 Dominica 21.81 headcount basis 2019 down 42.3% falling
30 Eswatini 21.57 headcount basis 2015 up 27.2% rising
31 Bolivia 20.86 headcount basis 2018 down 19.6% falling
32 Ecuador 20.78 headcount basis 2007 up 28.9% rising
33 Ghana 20.77 headcount basis 2018 down 18.1% falling
34 Antigua and Barbuda 19.49 headcount basis 2018 down 36.2% falling
35 Mexico 17.76 headcount basis 2018 down 12.5% falling
36 Laos 17.64 headcount basis 2019 down 23.1% falling
37 Suriname 16.81 headcount basis 2015 down 19.8% falling
38 Palestine 16.47 headcount basis 2019 down 29.3% falling
39 Cape Verde 16.06 headcount basis 2018 down 30.5% falling
40 Aruba 15.75 headcount basis 2012 up 4.6% falling
41 Jamaica 15.68 headcount basis 2019 down 20.3% falling
42 Saint Lucia 15.07 headcount basis 2019 down 46.0% falling
43 Bahamas 15.03 headcount basis 2018 up 3.7% rising
44 Mongolia 14.85 headcount basis 2010 down 25.4% falling
45 Panama 14.2 headcount basis 2014 down 24.8% falling
46 Kyrgyzstan 13.96 headcount basis 2017 down 18.6% falling
47 Botswana 13.94 headcount basis 2007 down 33.2% falling
48 Costa Rica 13.74 headcount basis 2019 down 25.2% falling
49 Saudi Arabia 13.57 headcount basis 2019 — rising
50 Saint Kitts and Nevis 12.85 headcount basis 2016 down 49.5% falling
51 Malaysia 12.2 headcount basis 2018 down 17.5% falling
52 Qatar 11.77 headcount basis 2019 down 35.9% falling
53 Seychelles 11.74 headcount basis 2019 down 16.6% falling
54 Singapore 11.5 headcount basis 2018 down 33.7% falling
55 Hong Kong 11.43 headcount basis 2019 down 36.9% falling
56 Uzbekistan 10.99 headcount basis 2019 down 10.4% falling
57 Cayman Islands 10.97 headcount basis 2018 up 21.7% falling
58 Croatia 10.86 headcount basis 2003 — falling
59 Bhutan 10.81 headcount basis 2018 down 62.1% falling
60 Oman 10.64 headcount basis 2019 — volatile
61 Macao 10.45 headcount basis 2019 down 56.4% falling
62 Bahrain 10.43 headcount basis 2019 down 18.6% falling
63 Cuba 9.69 headcount basis 2019 up 0.8% falling
64 Kuwait 9.09 headcount basis 2008 down 13.9% falling
65 Brunei 9.05 headcount basis 2019 down 23.5% falling
66 Belarus 8.86 headcount basis 2018 up 9.4% rising
67 Andorra 8.07 headcount basis 2019 up 61.7% rising
68 Kazakhstan 7.68 headcount basis 2019 — flat
69 Bermuda 4.98 headcount basis 2014 down 27.4% 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
Pupil-trained teacher ratio in secondary education (headcount basis)
Unit
headcount basis
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
89 places, 924 data points, 1971–2019
Last refreshed

Average number of pupils per trained 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 trained teachers at the same level. A trained teacher is defined as a teacher who has fulfilled at least the minimum organized teacher-training requirements (pre-service or in-service) to teach a specific level of education according to the relevant national policy or law. These requirements usually include pedagogical knowledge (broad principles and strategies of classroom management and organization that transcend the subject matter being taught - typically approaches, methods and techniques of teaching), and professional knowledge (knowledge of statutory instruments and other legal frameworks that govern the teaching profession). Some programmes may also cover content knowledge (knowledge of the curriculum and the subject matter to be taught and the use of relevant materials). 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.