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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2022

Figures for 2022, 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, 2022 covers 92 countries on 3 measures. 28 countries share the highest reading, 100.0000; San Marino is lowest, at 34.1564. The middle country reads 95.6146. Against 2021, 56 values changed (25 up, 31 down), 12 countries joined, 19 left.

Share

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education · Data for 2022

Highest28 countries share it

100.0000

LowestSan Marino

34.1564

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, 2022, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 92 countries · select a heading to sort

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2022: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
AndorraANDSouthern Europe100.0000100.000100.00
BahrainBHRWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
BhutanBTNSouthern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
Cabo VerdeCPVWestern Africa100.0000100.000100.00
CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia100.0000100.000100.00
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa100.0000100.000100.00
CubaCUBCaribbean100.0000100.000100.00
JordanJORWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
KazakhstanKAZCentral Asia100.0000100.000100.00
LatviaLVANorthern Europe100.0000100.000100.00
MoldovaMDAEastern Europe100.0000100.000100.00
MoroccoMARNorthern Africa100.0000100.000100.00
NiueNIUPolynesia100.0000100.000—
OmanOMNWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
PalestinePSEWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
PhilippinesPHLSouth-eastern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
QatarQATWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
South KoreaKOREastern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
SpainESPSouthern Europe100.0000100.000100.00
ThailandTHASouth-eastern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
TunisiaTUNNorthern Africa100.0000100.000100.00
United Arab EmiratesAREWestern Asia100.0000100.000100.00
United StatesUSANorthern America100.0000100.000100.00

02In 2022

At either end

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

Highest

  1. Andorrashared100.0000
  2. United Arab Emiratesshared100.0000
  3. Bahrainshared100.0000
  4. Bhutanshared100.0000
  5. Côte d’Ivoireshared100.0000

Lowest

  1. San Marino34.1564
  2. Lebanon34.8861
  3. Tuvalu46.4646
  4. British Virgin Islands50.1754
  5. Marshall Islands52.4941

A higher value is the better result. The middle country reads 95.6146. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

Each measure’s ends

  • Female

    Highest27 share it

    LowestLebanon34.528

    Middle country: 95.563

  • Male

    Highest26 share it

    LowestSan Marino11.76

    Middle country: 94.38

032021 → 2022

Since 2021

  • +12 / −19countries joined / left
  • 56values changed, of 80 in both
  • 25 · 31rose · fell
  • 24unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ Bahrain+ Botswana+ Eritrea+ Liberia+ Maldives+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nicaragua+ Slovakia+ Eswatini+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia− Angola− Albania− Benin− Bahamas− DR Congo− Cyprus− Dominican Republic− Egypt− Micronesia− Ghana− Kuwait− Mexico− Malta− Mauritius− Nepal− Sierra Leone− Suriname− Turkmenistan− Ukraine

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

04Caveats

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How values are stored
  • 65 distinct values among 92

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 14 decimals. 28 countries share 100.0000. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • 5 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

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UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2022). Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2022 [data set], describing 2022. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/qualified-teachers-primary/2022

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