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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021

Figures for 2021, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021 covers 98 countries. Belize is highest, at 145.98; Palau is lowest, at 7.98. The middle country reads 20.21. Against 2020, 78 values changed (33 up, 45 down), 20 countries joined, 13 left.

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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary · Data for 2021

HighestBelize

145.98

LowestPalau

7.98

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, 2021, 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 98 countries · select a heading to sort

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BelizeBLZCentral America145.98
2TogoTGOWestern Africa83.94
3AngolaAGOMiddle Africa66.57
4Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa59.25
5TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa57.46
6BeninBENWestern Africa51.88
7MalawiMWIEastern Africa51.03
8BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia47.24
9GuyanaGUYSouth America45.45
10RwandaRWAEastern Africa45.44
11GhanaGHAWestern Africa41.77
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa40.92
13NigerNERWestern Africa40.51
14DR CongoCODMiddle Africa40.41
15Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean39.79
16GambiaGMBWestern Africa37.81
17Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa37.42
18ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa36.74
19Saint LuciaLCACaribbean34.74
20SenegalSENWestern Africa33.72
21BhutanBTNSouthern Asia33.23
22PalestinePSEWestern Asia32.13
23HondurasHNDCentral America31.95
24MongoliaMNGEastern Asia31.73
25LesothoLSOSouthern Africa31.70

02In 2021

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Belize145.98
  2. 2Togo83.94
  3. 3Angola66.57
  4. 4Sierra Leone59.25
  5. 5Tanzania57.46

Lowest

  1. 98Palau7.98
  2. 97Andorra10.02
  3. 96San Marino10.39
  4. 95Tuvalu10.58
  5. 94British Virgin Islands10.92

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.21. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032020 → 2021

Since 2020

What changed between 2020 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +20 / −13countries joined / left
  • 78values changed, of 78 in both
  • 33 · 45rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 98 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) (2021). Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021 [data set], describing 2021. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary/2021

0612 held

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07Questions

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021: questions and answers

Which country has the highest pupils per qualified teacher (primary) in Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021?

Belize, at 145.98, of the 98 countries in the file.

What year does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021 describe?

2021.

How many countries does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021 cover?

98.

Where can I download Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2021?

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, 2021 the newest?

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

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