Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 1999

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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 1999: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).

Country	Primary teachers with the minimum qualifications their country requires (%)	Female	Male
ArubaABWCaribbean	100.00	100.00	100.00
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia	100.00	100.00	100.00
CroatiaHRVSouthern Europe	100.00	100.00	100.00
CubaCUBCaribbean	100.00	100.00	100.00
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia	100.00	100.00	100.00
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa	100.00	100.00	100.00
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia	100.00	100.00	100.00
MontserratMSRCaribbean	100.00	100.00	100.00
PalestinePSEWestern Asia	100.00	100.00	100.00
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia	99.98	99.98	99.97
UkraineUKREastern Europe	99.87	—	—
OmanOMNWestern Asia	99.56	99.35	99.78
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe	98.91	98.80	100.00
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean	98.09	98.38	95.83
NigerNERWestern Africa	97.75	97.53	97.85
MalaysiaMYSSouth-eastern Asia	97.11	96.61	98.09
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa	94.18	95.16	93.25
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa	93.73	95.71	92.05
EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa	91.13	91.81	89.05
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa	90.24	92.28	81.41
ArmeniaARMWestern Asia	89.33	89.39	71.67
Costa RicaCRICentral America	87.18	87.14	87.32
Hong KongHKGEastern Asia	86.39	86.09	87.43
SeychellesSYCEastern Africa	82.26	83.36	76.19
SyriaSYRWestern Asia	81.10	—	—

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 81.00. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

• Female

  Highest9 share it

  LowestNepal11.20

  Middle country: 84.53

• Male

  Highest11 share it

  LowestNepal16.10

  Middle country: 76.98

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