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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023

Figures for 2023, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023 covers 104 countries. Mali is highest, at 210.08; Antigua and Barbuda is lowest, at 8.87. The middle country reads 21.25. Against 2022, 83 values changed (24 up, 59 down), 21 countries joined, 17 left.

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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary · Data for 2023

HighestMali

210.08

LowestAntigua and Barbuda

8.87

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, 2023, 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 104 countries · select a heading to sort

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1MaliMLIWestern Africa210.08
2AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa193.40
3CameroonCMRMiddle Africa156.63
4BelizeBLZCentral America155.30
5VenezuelaVENSouth America106.78
6AngolaAGOMiddle Africa105.98
7TogoTGOWestern Africa84.46
8Republic of the CongoCOGMiddle Africa76.51
9GuyanaGUYSouth America74.69
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa64.15
11British Virgin IslandsVGBCaribbean58.12
12TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa56.13
13MalawiMWIEastern Africa54.32
14AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia54.03
15PalestinePSEWestern Asia53.24
16CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia48.95
17EthiopiaETHEastern Africa46.04
18NigerNERWestern Africa44.30
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa43.91
20DR CongoCODMiddle Africa43.50
21BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia42.27
22RwandaRWAEastern Africa42.05
23NauruNRUMicronesia39.25
24SomaliaSOMEastern Africa37.20
25GambiaGMBWestern Africa36.00

02In 2023

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Mali210.08
  2. 2Algeria193.40
  3. 3Cameroon156.63
  4. 4Belize155.30
  5. 5Venezuela106.78

Lowest

  1. 104Antigua and Barbuda8.87
  2. 103San Marino9.08
  3. 102Niue10.17
  4. 101Andorra10.22
  5. 100Barbados10.57

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 21.25. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032022 → 2023

Since 2022

What changed between 2022 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +21 / −17countries joined / left
  • 83values changed, of 83 in both
  • 24 · 59rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 104 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) (2023). Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023 [data set], describing 2023. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary/2023

0612 held

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07Questions

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023: questions and answers

Which country has the highest pupils per qualified teacher (primary) in Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023?

Mali, at 210.08, of the 104 countries in the file.

What year does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023 describe?

2023.

How many countries does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023 cover?

104.

Where can I download Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2023?

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, 2023 the newest?

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

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