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Teachers in primary education, male (number), per capita by country

Teachers in primary education, male (number) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
196
Highest
0.0054 number per person
Libya
Lowest
0 number per person
Belarus
Median
0.0012 number per person
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
7,382

What the numbers show

Teachers in primary education, male (number), per capita is currently reported for 196 countries. The highest value is 0.0054 number per person in Libya; the lowest is 0 number per person in Belarus.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.0012 number per person, and the mean is 0.0015 number per person.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 443.

Over the past decade 65 countries rose and 126 fell. The largest increase was in Armenia (up 3,935.8%), and the largest decrease in Czechia (down 87.5%).

Teachers in primary education, male (number), per capita: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Libya 0.0054 number per person 1983 down 7.8% rising
2 Liberia 0.0048 number per person 2017 up 9.9% rising
3 Togo 0.0044 number per person 2019 up 10.5% rising
4 Sierra Leone 0.0043 number per person 2019 down 3.3% rising
5 Democratic Republic of Congo 0.0043 number per person 2018 up 47.8% rising
6 Comoros 0.004 number per person 2018 up 9.5% rising
7 Nepal 0.0039 number per person 2019 up 20.9% rising
8 Haiti 0.0038 number per person 1998 up 140.3% rising
9 American Samoa 0.0037 number per person 1992 down 13.8% falling
10 Saudi Arabia 0.0037 number per person 2019 down 38.0% falling
11 East Timor 0.0035 number per person 2019 down 17.1% rising
12 Gabon 0.0034 number per person 2011 up 59.4% falling
13 Solomon Islands 0.0033 number per person 2018 down 33.7% flat
14 Iraq 0.0032 number per person 2007 up 60.6% falling
15 Benin 0.0031 number per person 2019 down 6.0% rising
16 Ghana 0.0031 number per person 2019 up 4.3% rising
17 French Polynesia 0.003 number per person 1996 down 15.5% rising
18 Uganda 0.0029 number per person 2017 down 5.8% rising
19 Kenya 0.0028 number per person 2015 up 23.9% falling
20 Vanuatu 0.0028 number per person 2015 down 36.7% falling
21 Senegal 0.0027 number per person 2019 down 1.1% rising
22 Guinea-Bissau 0.0027 number per person 2010 up 21.9% falling
23 Gambia 0.0026 number per person 2019 up 11.3% rising
24 Sao Tome and Principe 0.0026 number per person 2017 down 4.9% rising
25 Denmark 0.0025 number per person 2018 — falling
26 Norway 0.0025 number per person 2018 up 7.8% rising
27 Maldives 0.0025 number per person 2019 down 5.9% falling
28 Malawi 0.0024 number per person 2019 up 42.3% rising
29 Mauritania 0.0024 number per person 2019 down 5.2% rising
30 Namibia 0.0024 number per person 2018 up 15.2% falling
31 Guatemala 0.0024 number per person 2019 up 2.7% rising
32 Bolivia 0.0024 number per person 2018 down 14.0% falling
33 Eswatini 0.0023 number per person 2018 up 20.3% rising
34 Cote d'Ivoire 0.0023 number per person 2019 up 18.6% flat
35 Afghanistan 0.0023 number per person 2018 down 23.5% volatile
36 Zimbabwe 0.0023 number per person 2013 down 6.4% flat
37 Laos 0.0023 number per person 2019 down 6.5% falling
38 Bhutan 0.0022 number per person 2020 down 34.1% rising
39 Zambia 0.0022 number per person 2017 up 6.4% falling
40 Mozambique 0.0022 number per person 2019 down 5.4% rising
41 Mali 0.0022 number per person 2018 up 25.8% rising
42 Tunisia 0.0022 number per person 2018 down 16.5% falling
43 Chad 0.0022 number per person 2019 up 18.2% rising
44 Guinea 0.0022 number per person 2016 down 3.5% rising
45 Peru 0.0022 number per person 2019 down 4.8% flat
46 Indonesia 0.0021 number per person 2019 down 10.3% falling
47 Malaysia 0.0021 number per person 2019 down 21.1% falling
48 Madagascar 0.0021 number per person 2019 up 15.6% rising
49 Burundi 0.0021 number per person 2019 up 17.1% rising
50 Tuvalu 0.0021 number per person 2019 — falling
51 Tonga 0.002 number per person 2015 down 31.1% falling
52 Burkina Faso 0.002 number per person 2019 up 23.2% volatile
53 Syria 0.002 number per person 2002 down 26.8% falling
54 Papua New Guinea 0.002 number per person 2016 up 32.2% falling
55 Brunei 0.002 number per person 2019 down 15.3% falling
56 Morocco 0.0019 number per person 2019 down 13.3% rising
57 Luxembourg 0.0019 number per person 2018 down 2.5% falling
58 Egypt 0.0019 number per person 2019 down 11.8% rising
59 Greece 0.0019 number per person 2018 down 4.9% flat
60 Costa Rica 0.0018 number per person 2019 up 42.3% rising
61 Oman 0.0018 number per person 2019 — rising
62 Nigeria 0.0018 number per person 2010 down 3.1% flat
63 Ethiopia 0.0017 number per person 2011 up 92.3% rising
64 Angola 0.0017 number per person 2016 down 30.8% rising
65 Eritrea 0.0017 number per person 2018 up 19.3% rising
66 Cape Verde 0.0017 number per person 2018 down 17.8% falling
67 Paraguay 0.0017 number per person 2012 down 11.0% falling
68 Botswana 0.0017 number per person 2015 up 8.2% flat
69 Cameroon 0.0017 number per person 2019 down 18.2% falling
70 Central African Republic 0.0017 number per person 2016 up 82.1% rising
71 Tanzania 0.0017 number per person 2019 down 9.0% rising
72 Fiji 0.0016 number per person 2012 down 22.0% falling
73 Congo 0.0016 number per person 2012 down 6.8% falling
74 Bahrain 0.0016 number per person 2019 down 0.7% falling
75 Belize 0.0016 number per person 2019 down 22.5% falling
76 Iceland 0.0016 number per person 2018 down 14.6% falling
77 Equatorial Guinea 0.0015 number per person 2015 down 19.0% flat
78 Rwanda 0.0015 number per person 2019 up 0.9% rising
79 Thailand 0.0015 number per person 2019 down 27.0% falling
80 Mexico 0.0015 number per person 2018 down 6.3% flat
81 Canada 0.0015 number per person 2000 down 12.8% falling
82 Nauru 0.0015 number per person 2019 up 267.1% volatile
83 Jordan 0.0015 number per person 2019 up 30.4% falling
84 Djibouti 0.0015 number per person 2020 up 10.9% rising
85 India 0.0014 number per person 2019 down 18.4% falling
86 Liechtenstein 0.0014 number per person 2018 down 36.6% falling
87 China 0.0014 number per person 2019 down 28.3% falling
88 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0.0014 number per person 2018 up 26.5% volatile
89 Cuba 0.0014 number per person 2019 down 22.6% falling
90 Turkey 0.0014 number per person 2018 down 27.3% falling
91 Bangladesh 0.0014 number per person 2018 down 4.1% falling
92 Niger 0.0014 number per person 2019 down 0.8% rising
93 Cambodia 0.0013 number per person 2019 down 27.0% falling
94 Lesotho 0.0013 number per person 2017 up 3.1% rising
95 Australia 0.0013 number per person 1997 down 19.0% falling
96 Grenada 0.0013 number per person 2018 down 6.0% falling
97 Poland 0.0013 number per person 2018 up 24.8% falling
98 Israel 0.0012 number per person 2018 down 2.4% falling
99 Sweden 0.0012 number per person 2018 down 2.1% rising
100 Nicaragua 0.0012 number per person 2010 up 48.5% rising
101 Trinidad and Tobago 0.0012 number per person 2009 down 18.4% falling
102 Samoa 0.0012 number per person 2010 down 35.0% falling
103 Barbados 0.0012 number per person 2019 down 8.6% falling
104 Palestine 0.0012 number per person 2019 down 9.1% falling
105 Spain 0.0011 number per person 2018 up 0.7% rising
106 Honduras 0.0011 number per person 2019 down 6.1% flat
107 Dominican Republic 0.0011 number per person 2019 down 6.7% rising
108 Belgium 0.0011 number per person 2018 down 7.5% falling
109 Andorra 0.0011 number per person 2019 down 0.9% falling
110 Iran 0.0011 number per person 2017 down 44.4% falling
111 Panama 0.0011 number per person 2017 down 14.7% falling
112 Ireland 0.0011 number per person 2012 up 4.7% falling
113 Ecuador 0.0011 number per person 2018 down 44.2% falling
114 Japan 0.0011 number per person 2005 down 29.6% falling
115 El Salvador 0.001 number per person 2018 down 24.0% falling
116 Venezuela 0.001 number per person 1987 up 43.8% rising
117 Kiribati 0.001 number per person 2016 down 21.4% falling
118 Switzerland 0.001 number per person 2018 down 1.7% flat
119 Qatar 0.001 number per person 2019 up 24.9% falling
120 Monaco 0.001 number per person 2020 up 53.0% rising
121 Finland 0.001 number per person 2018 down 1.7% falling
122 Pakistan 0.001 number per person 2019 down 22.7% falling
123 Seychelles 0.001 number per person 2019 down 9.6% rising
124 Portugal 0.001 number per person 2018 down 25.4% falling
125 Somalia 0.0009 number per person 2007 — volatile
126 Algeria 0.0009 number per person 2019 down 52.1% falling
127 South Africa 0.0009 number per person 2015 down 19.2% falling
128 Gibraltar 0.0009 number per person 2019 down 36.3% rising
129 Tajikistan 0.0009 number per person 2017 down 41.8% falling
130 Dominica 0.0009 number per person 2019 down 11.6% falling
131 Argentina 0.0009 number per person 2008 up 28.0% rising
132 Vietnam 0.0009 number per person 2019 up 1.9% falling
133 Saint Lucia 0.0009 number per person 2019 up 20.7% falling
134 Chile 0.0009 number per person 2018 up 1.9% rising
135 Aruba 0.0009 number per person 2012 down 21.7% falling
136 Hong Kong 0.0009 number per person 2019 up 20.6% falling
137 Mauritius 0.0009 number per person 2019 down 36.8% falling
138 Colombia 0.0009 number per person 2017 down 5.0% falling
139 Georgia 0.0008 number per person 2019 down 30.1% volatile
140 New Zealand 0.0008 number per person 2018 down 4.4% falling
141 Myanmar 0.0008 number per person 2018 up 37.0% falling
142 Kuwait 0.0008 number per person 2019 down 10.3% falling
143 Lebanon 0.0008 number per person 2019 down 16.8% falling
144 Bermuda 0.0008 number per person 2016 down 19.1% falling
145 Netherlands 0.0007 number per person 2018 down 27.3% falling
146 South Korea 0.0007 number per person 2018 up 1.0% falling
147 Antigua and Barbuda 0.0007 number per person 2018 up 32.6% volatile
148 United States 0.0007 number per person 2017 — falling
149 Saint Kitts and Nevis 0.0007 number per person 2016 down 40.0% falling
150 Macao 0.0006 number per person 2019 up 78.0% falling
151 Guyana 0.0006 number per person 2012 down 22.1% falling
152 North Macedonia 0.0006 number per person 2018 down 21.7% falling
153 France 0.0006 number per person 2018 up 3.4% falling
154 San Marino 0.0006 number per person 2019 down 12.9% falling
155 Cyprus 0.0006 number per person 2018 down 2.7% falling
156 Malta 0.0006 number per person 2017 up 13.6% falling
157 United Kingdom 0.0006 number per person 2018 down 21.1% falling
158 Philippines 0.0006 number per person 2018 up 4.9% falling
159 Puerto Rico 0.0006 number per person 2018 down 56.0% falling
160 Singapore 0.0006 number per person 2018 down 1.9% falling
161 Albania 0.0006 number per person 2019 down 22.6% falling
162 Estonia 0.0006 number per person 2018 up 102.6% falling
163 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.0005 number per person 2018 down 26.8% volatile
164 Brazil 0.0004 number per person 2018 up 23.0% rising
165 Jamaica 0.0004 number per person 2019 down 4.5% falling
166 Sri Lanka 0.0004 number per person 2018 down 12.1% falling
167 Cayman Islands 0.0004 number per person 2018 down 42.8% falling
168 Latvia 0.0004 number per person 2018 up 23.4% rising
169 Suriname 0.0004 number per person 2019 down 27.6% volatile
170 British Virgin Islands 0.0004 number per person 2018 down 54.7% falling
171 Germany 0.0004 number per person 2018 down 13.5% falling
172 Serbia 0.0004 number per person 2019 down 4.2% flat
173 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.0004 number per person 2019 down 15.6% falling
174 Austria 0.0003 number per person 2017 down 15.3% falling
175 Uzbekistan 0.0003 number per person 2019 down 30.7% falling
176 Azerbaijan 0.0003 number per person 2019 down 52.8% falling
177 Armenia 0.0003 number per person 2019 up 3,935.8% volatile
178 Bahamas 0.0003 number per person 2018 down 67.8% volatile
179 Slovakia 0.0003 number per person 2018 down 3.2% rising
180 Romania 0.0002 number per person 2018 down 34.3% falling
181 Kazakhstan 0.0002 number per person 2019 up 313.8% falling
182 United Arab Emirates 0.0002 number per person 2016 down 62.3% volatile
183 Croatia 0.0002 number per person 2018 down 9.4% falling
184 Bulgaria 0.0002 number per person 2018 up 35.6% falling
185 Italy 0.0002 number per person 2018 down 14.5% volatile
186 Mongolia 0.0002 number per person 2018 up 17.3% volatile
187 Uruguay 0.0002 number per person 1997 down 85.1% volatile
188 Hungary 0.0001 number per person 2016 down 20.6% volatile
189 Slovenia 0.0001 number per person 2016 up 43.3% volatile
190 Lithuania 0.0001 number per person 2018 up 10.2% volatile
191 Czechia 0.0001 number per person 2012 down 87.5% volatile
192 Moldova 0.0001 number per person 2019 down 9.5% falling
193 Kyrgyzstan 0 number per person 2019 down 40.8% volatile
194 Ukraine 0 number per person 2019 up 63.5% volatile
195 Russia 0 number per person 2018 down 44.7% falling
196 Belarus 0 number per person 2018 down 32.5% falling

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

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Teachers in primary education, male (number) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Teachers in primary education, male (number) ÷ Population, total

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Indicator
Teachers in primary education, male (number), per capita
Unit
number per person
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
241 places, 7,382 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

Teachers in primary education, male (number) divided by Population, total, matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.