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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2009

Figures for 2009, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

This is the share of primary-school teachers who hold at least the minimum qualification their own country requires of them — SDG indicator 4.c.1. It describes the teaching workforce rather than the pupils.

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2009 covers 82 countries on 3 measures. 19 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; Benin is lowest, at 40.398. The middle country reads 92.459. Against 2008, 56 values changed (27 up, 29 down), 10 countries joined, 11 left.

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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education · Data for 2009

Highest19 countries share it

100.000

LowestBenin

40.398

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the better end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2009, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 82 countries · select a heading to sort

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2009: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AndorraANDSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.0
BotswanaBWASouthern Africa100.000100.00100.0
ColombiaCOLSouth America100.000100.00100.0
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa100.000100.00100.0
CubaCUBCaribbean100.000100.00100.0
DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa100.000100.00100.0
KuwaitKWTWestern Asia100.000100.00100.0
MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa100.000100.00100.0
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa100.000100.00100.0
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia100.000100.00100.0
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa100.000100.00100.0
PalestinePSEWestern Asia100.000100.00100.0
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.0
San MarinoSMRSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.0
South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.000100.00100.0
SpainESPSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.0
SurinameSURSouth America100.000100.00100.0
TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa100.000100.00100.0
UzbekistanUZBCentral Asia100.000100.00100.0
AzerbaijanAZEWestern Asia99.916——
BelarusBLREastern Europe99.86699.87100.0
UkraineUKREastern Europe99.856——
ArubaABWCaribbean99.828100.0099.0
VietnamVNMSouth-eastern Asia99.64099.7699.2
GibraltarGIBSouthern Europe99.50799.37100.0

02In 2009

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline, then the highest and lowest on each other measure.

Highest

  1. Andorrashared100.000
  2. Botswanashared100.000
  3. Côte d’Ivoireshared100.000
  4. Colombiashared100.000
  5. Cubashared100.000

Lowest

  1. Benin40.398
  2. Belize42.538
  3. Senegal42.561
  4. Equatorial Guinea42.698
  5. Ghana47.567

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 92.459. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest20 share it

    LowestSenegal34.12

    Middle country: 91.66

  • Male

    Highest21 share it

    LowestMontserrat0.0

    Middle country: 90.6

032008 → 2009

Since 2008

  • +10 / −11countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 72 in both
  • 27 · 29rose · fell
  • 16unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Burundi+ Benin+ Lithuania+ Montserrat+ Serbia+ São Tomé and Príncipe+ Eswatini+ Seychelles+ Chad+ Tanzania− Bhutan− Comoros− Cayman Islands− Fiji− Guinea− Iran− Kiribati− Malawi− Nicaragua− Nepal− Russia

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do.

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • 64 distinct values among 82

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 19 countries share 100.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 20 empty cells

    An empty cell means the publisher gave no figure. It is never a zero.

05The files

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What this site changed: Reshaped to one row per country, with its ISO code; no value recalculated, rescaled or rounded. In full

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2009). Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2009 [data set], describing 2009. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/qualified-teachers-primary/2009

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