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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary

12 years, 2013–2024 · 92 countries

This is the number of primary-school pupils for each teacher who holds the minimum qualification their country requires. It is not the ordinary pupil–teacher ratio, which UNESCO no longer publishes: teachers without that qualification are left out of the count, so the figure rises with crowded classes, with a shortage of qualified teachers, or with both.

This site holds every year from 2013 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024
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12 years · 1,079 rows
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0112 years

Every year

Newest first. Each opens the full table for that year, and each downloads as a CSV.

2013bar height: countries covered, up to 1042024
Every year of Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024Newest92+13 −25September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023104+21 −17September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2022100+18 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 202198+20 −13September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 202091+14 −17September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201994+20 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201890+18 −14September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201786+11 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201691+18 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201589+20 −12September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201481+27 −9September 29, 2026CSV
Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 201363—September 29, 2026CSV

Every year in one file, one row per country per year: pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

023 columns

What’s in the file

Every column, what it holds, how it is stored and what its values look like — what a reader needs before opening the file.

Every column in the newest file of Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary: what it holds, how it is stored, and its range.
ColumnWhat it holdsStored asRange, 2024DistinctEmptySpread
CountrycountryNameThe country’s name, as this file spells it.Text—920
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—920
Primary pupils per qualified teacher (headcount basis)pupils_per_qualified_teacherHeadlineThe headline figure: Primary pupils per qualified teacher (headcount basis).Number · up to 15 decimals8.24Puerto Rico284.70Boliviamiddle 20.67920

Profiled from the newest file. Range: the lowest and highest value, with the country holding it when only one does. Spread: countries in ten equal steps from lowest to highest. A higher value is the worse result.

03153 countries across every year

Who is covered

How many countries each year holds, continent by continent, who joined and who left, and which places this site covers that the dataset never has.

All regions
Countries in each year of Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa242631262827272726292724
Americas141920211419161422182519
Asia142123293232323130323229
Europe710899891210988
Oceania45763410710121212
All63818991869094919810010492

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Bolivia+ Comoros+ Ghana+ Madagascar+ Maldives+ Mauritania+ Puerto Rico+ Saudi Arabia+ Senegal+ Serbia+ South Sudan+ Chad+ Ukraine− Afghanistan− Angola− Antigua and Barbuda− DR Congo− Republic of the Congo− Djibouti− Dominica− Spain− Gibraltar− Iran− Kenya− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Mali− Malawi− Nicaragua− Peru− Palestine− Singapore− Somalia− Suriname− Tunisia− Uruguay− United States
  • 2023
    + Afghanistan+ Angola+ Albania+ Antigua and Barbuda+ Bahamas+ DR Congo+ Republic of the Congo+ Gibraltar+ Guyana+ Cambodia+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Mali+ Mauritius+ Nepal+ Peru+ Sierra Leone+ El Salvador+ Somalia+ Suriname+ Venezuela+ British Virgin Islands− Botswana− Colombia− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Honduras− Liberia− Maldives− Mozambique− Philippines− Russia− Saudi Arabia− Senegal− Serbia− Slovakia− Eswatini− Chad
  • 2022
    + Bahrain+ Botswana+ Cameroon+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Grenada+ Iran+ Liberia+ Maldives+ Mozambique+ Nicaragua+ Nauru+ Slovakia+ Eswatini+ Syria+ Chad+ Tunisia+ Samoa− Angola− Albania− Benin− Bahamas− DR Congo− Cyprus− Ghana− Gibraltar− Guyana− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Mexico− Mauritius− Nepal− Sierra Leone− Suriname− British Virgin Islands
  • 2021
    + Angola+ Bangladesh+ Bahamas+ DR Congo+ Colombia+ Comoros+ Dominica+ Guyana+ Honduras+ Saint Kitts and Nevis+ Saint Lucia+ Mexico+ Niger+ Palau+ Rwanda+ Sierra Leone+ Tuvalu+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Vietnam+ Vanuatu− Burundi− Costa Rica− Ethiopia− Guinea− Cambodia− Kuwait− Liberia− Lithuania− Mozambique− Mauritania− Portugal− Timor-Leste− Tunisia
  • 2020
    + Djibouti+ Ethiopia+ Guinea+ Indonesia+ Kiribati+ Kuwait+ Liberia+ Monaco+ Mauritania+ Russia+ San Marino+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia− Afghanistan− Bahrain− Bahamas− Colombia− Dominica− Madagascar− Maldives− Montserrat− Niger− Nauru− Rwanda− Sudan− Solomon Islands− Sierra Leone− Chad− Tuvalu− Vanuatu
  • 2019
    + Cook Islands+ Colombia+ Dominica+ Egypt+ Fiji+ Gibraltar+ India+ Kenya+ Lebanon+ Marshall Islands+ Niger+ Niue+ Nepal+ Nauru+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Togo+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan+ Vanuatu− Antigua and Barbuda− Bangladesh− DR Congo− Djibouti− Eritrea− Grenada− Indonesia− Laos− Myanmar− Nigeria− North Korea− El Salvador− Eswatini− Turks and Caicos Islands− Tunisia− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
  • 2018
    + United Arab Emirates+ Armenia+ Bahamas+ Belize+ DR Congo+ Cayman Islands+ Jamaica+ Lesotho+ Maldives+ Montserrat+ Nigeria+ North Korea+ Sierra Leone+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Timor-Leste+ Tonga+ Tuvalu+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Cameroon− Colombia− Ethiopia− Gibraltar− India− Iran− Kiribati− Liberia− Niger− Nepal− Panama− Thailand− Tajikistan− Zambia
  • 2017
    + Antigua and Barbuda+ Bangladesh+ Cameroon+ Cyprus+ Eritrea+ Ethiopia+ Ghana+ Oman+ Palestine+ Rwanda+ Tunisia− Bahamas− Belize− Central African Republic− Chile− Cook Islands− Dominica− Egypt− Guinea− Jamaica− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Lesotho− Niue− Nauru− Puerto Rico− Saint Vincent and the Grenadines− Yemen

04Provenance

Where it comes from

The path from the publisher to this page, and what was checked and changed on the way.

The site’s method
  1. 1 · Publisher

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)

  2. 2 · Their file

    Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary 2024

  3. 3 · Read by this site

    September 29, 2026

    Imported by a script that parses each figure and writes it down unrounded.
  4. 4 · Stored as

    12 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv
  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

Precision

The headline is stored to 15 decimals, as published.

Rounded by this site

Never. Tables on screen may show fewer decimals; the files never do.

Changed by this site

Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

From the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (PTRHC.1.QUALIFIED). The World Bank’s older pupil–teacher ratio series stopped in 2018, when UNESCO stopped publishing the plain ratio. Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written.

05Reuse

Licence and credit

What the publisher’s licence lets you do, what it asks of you, and a credit line and citation ready to copy.

Every publisher’s terms

Licence · checked September 29, 2026

CC BY-SA 4.0

  • Share and redistribute it
  • Adapt it and build on it
  • Use it commercially
  • Credit the publisher
  • Say what you changed
  • Publish anything adapted from it under the same licence

Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

A credit line

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2013–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary

The publisher’s own citation: UNESCO Institute for Statistics. UIS Data Browser. Montreal: UNESCO Institute for Statistics.

Plain-language summary, not legal advice. The licence text is what binds.

06Where it is used

Around the site

Where these numbers appear on this site, and the datasets nearest to it.

07Questions

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary: questions and answers

What is the Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary?

This is the number of primary-school pupils for each teacher who holds the minimum qualification their country requires. It is not the ordinary pupil–teacher ratio, which UNESCO no longer publishes: teachers without that qualification are left out of the count, so the figure rises with crowded classes, with a shortage of qualified teachers, or with both.

Which years of the Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary can I download?

All 12, from 2013 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No. UIS publishes values only. The positions shown on this site are derived by ordering the published values, and are labelled as ours.

Can I use it commercially?

Yes, under CC BY-SA 4.0, with credit to UIS. The licence text is linked on this page.

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