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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020

Figures for 2020, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020 covers 91 countries. Belize is highest, at 136.5994; Brunei is lowest, at 9.3117. The middle country reads 19.7843. Against 2019, 77 values changed (26 up, 51 down), 14 countries joined, 17 left.

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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary · Data for 2020

HighestBelize

136.5994

LowestBrunei

9.3117

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020, as published. UIS ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 91 countries · select a heading to sort

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelizeBLZCentral America136.5994
2TogoTGOWestern Africa90.6763
3GuineaGINWestern Africa75.5380
4MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa58.8010
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa56.9639
6MalawiMWIEastern Africa55.0227
7MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa49.7222
8BurundiBDIEastern Africa47.4140
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa42.1656
10CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia42.0589
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa41.5845
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa40.5741
13Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa38.9736
14ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa38.3045
15BeninBENWestern Africa38.2921
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa36.6660
17Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia36.0392
18SenegalSENWestern Africa34.1698
19BhutanBTNSouthern Asia33.7146
20Timor-LesteTLSSouth-eastern Asia33.7106
21MongoliaMNGEastern Asia32.6941
22LesothoLSOSouthern Africa32.5246
23PalestinePSEWestern Asia32.4110
24DjiboutiDJIEastern Africa29.9281
25LiberiaLBRWestern Africa29.8657

02In 2020

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Belize136.5994
  2. 2Togo90.6763
  3. 3Guinea75.5380
  4. 4Mozambique58.8010
  5. 5Tanzania56.9639

Lowest

  1. 91Brunei9.3117
  2. 90Andorra10.3309
  3. 89San Marino10.4091
  4. 88British Virgin Islands10.5233
  5. 87Oman10.6153

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 19.7843. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032019 → 2020

Since 2019

What changed between 2019 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +14 / −17countries joined / left
  • 77values changed, of 77 in both
  • 26 · 51rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Malawi110.1650 → 55.0227−55.1423
  • Togo96.3967 → 90.6763−5.7204
  • Bhutan39.1524 → 33.7146−5.4378
  • Niue16.6923 → 12.0000−4.6923
  • Benin40.8859 → 38.2921−2.5939
+ 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

Changes in value, not in places: a country’s place also moves when others do. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method
  • The position is ours

    UIS publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 91 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Share, adapt and use commercially with credit — and anything you publish that adapts it must carry the same licence.

Cite this edition

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) (2020). Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020 [data set], describing 2020. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary/2020

0612 held

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07Questions

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020: questions and answers

Which country has the highest pupils per qualified teacher (primary) in Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020?

Belize, at 136.5994, of the 91 countries in the file.

What year does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020 describe?

2020.

How many countries does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020 cover?

91.

Where can I download Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2020 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024.

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