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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024

Figures for 2024, as UIS published them · stored as published, never rewritten

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024 covers 92 countries. Bolivia is highest, at 284.70; Puerto Rico is lowest, at 8.24. The middle country reads 20.67. Against 2023, 79 values changed (30 up, 49 down), 13 countries joined, 25 left.

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Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary · Data for 2024

HighestBolivia

284.70

LowestPuerto Rico

8.24

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, 2024, 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 92 countries · select a heading to sort

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024: every country, as published by UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
derived
1BoliviaBOLSouth America284.70
2MadagascarMDGEastern Africa175.19
3BelizeBLZCentral America158.71
4UkraineUKREastern Europe136.00
5South SudanSSDEastern Africa117.82
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa87.54
7VenezuelaVENSouth America85.85
8TogoTGOWestern Africa84.45
9GuyanaGUYSouth America84.18
10CameroonCMRMiddle Africa63.48
11Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa61.51
12EthiopiaETHEastern Africa51.72
13TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa50.75
14CambodiaKHMSouth-eastern Asia49.24
15Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa46.14
16GhanaGHAWestern Africa45.53
17RwandaRWAEastern Africa44.08
18NigerNERWestern Africa43.12
19MauritaniaMRTWestern Africa39.87
20VanuatuVUTMelanesia37.74
21Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa36.75
22NauruNRUMicronesia36.06
23GambiaGMBWestern Africa35.68
24MongoliaMNGEastern Asia35.44
25Cook IslandsCOKPolynesia34.93

02In 2024

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bolivia284.70
  2. 2Madagascar175.19
  3. 3Belize158.71
  4. 4Ukraine136.00
  5. 5South Sudan117.82

Lowest

  1. 92Puerto Rico8.24
  2. 91San Marino8.62
  3. 90Andorra10.21
  4. 89Barbados10.25
  5. 88British Virgin Islands10.29

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 20.67. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032023 → 2024

Since 2023

What changed between 2023 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +13 / −25countries joined / left
  • 79values changed, of 79 in both
  • 30 · 49rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

+ 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

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 92 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) (2024). Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024 [data set], describing 2024. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/pupils-per-qualified-teacher-primary/2024

0612 held

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07Questions

Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024: questions and answers

Which country has the highest pupils per qualified teacher (primary) in Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024?

Bolivia, at 284.70, of the 92 countries in the file.

What year does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024 describe?

2024.

How many countries does Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024 cover?

92.

Where can I download Pupils per Qualified Teacher, Primary, 2024?

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, 2024 the newest?

Yes, as of 2026-09-29, when it was read from the publisher.

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