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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2019

Figures for 2019, 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, 2019 covers 97 countries on 3 measures. 31 countries share the highest reading, 100.000; Madagascar is lowest, at 15.269. The middle country reads 95.982. Against 2018, 50 values changed (31 up, 19 down), 21 countries joined, 11 left.

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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education · Data for 2019

Highest31 countries share it

100.000

LowestMadagascar

15.269

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, 2019, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 97 countries · select a heading to sort

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2019: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa100.000100.00100.000
AndorraANDSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.000
BahrainBHRWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia100.000100.00100.000
BurundiBDIEastern Africa100.000100.00100.000
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia100.000100.00100.000
Cayman IslandsCYMCaribbean100.000100.00100.000
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia100.000100.00100.000
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa100.000100.00100.000
CubaCUBCaribbean100.000100.00100.000
CyprusCYPWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
JamaicaJAMCaribbean100.000100.00100.000
JordanJORWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia100.000100.00100.000
KenyaKENEastern Africa100.000100.00100.000
LatviaLVANorthern Europe100.000100.00100.000
MauritiusMUSEastern Africa100.000100.00100.000
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe100.000100.00100.000
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa100.000100.00100.000
OmanOMNWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
PalestinePSEWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia100.000100.00100.000
PortugalPRTSouthern Europe100.000100.00100.000
QatarQATWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia100.000100.00100.000

02In 2019

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. United Arab Emiratesshared100.000
  3. Burundishared100.000
  4. Bahrainshared100.000
  5. Bhutanshared100.000

Lowest

  1. Madagascar15.269
  2. Micronesia36.333
  3. Marshall Islands46.944
  4. Sudan58.540
  5. Ghana61.538

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 95.982. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest30 share it

    LowestMadagascar18.91

    Middle country: 95.91

  • Male

    Highest32 share it

    LowestMadagascar11.163

    Middle country: 94.724

032018 → 2019

Since 2018

  • +21 / −11countries joined / left
  • 50values changed, of 76 in both
  • 31 · 19rose · fell
  • 26unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Armenia+ Brazil+ Cook Islands+ Colombia+ Dominica+ Fiji+ Gabon+ India+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Monaco+ Moldova+ Marshall Islands+ Malta+ Malaysia+ Nepal+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Togo+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan− Antigua and Barbuda− DR Congo− Djibouti− Eritrea− Grenada− Myanmar− Niger− Nigeria− Russia− El Salvador− Tunisia

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • 67 distinct values among 97

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 31 countries share 100.000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 6 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

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2019). Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2019 [data set], describing 2019. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/qualified-teachers-primary/2019

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