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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education

25 years, 1999–2024 · 81 countries · 3 measures

This is the share of primary-school teachers who hold at least the minimum qualification their own country requires of them — SDG indicator 4.c.1. It describes the teaching workforce rather than the pupils.

This site holds every year from 1999 to 2024, read from UIS’s own data and stored exactly as published.

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Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2024
Held
25 years · 1,980 rows
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

0125 years

Every year

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

1999bar height: countries covered, up to 992024
Every year of Qualified Teachers in Primary Education held on this site, newest first, with its download files.
YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 2024Newest81+6 −23September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 202398+19 −13September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 202292+12 −19September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 202199+15 −11September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 202095+10 −12September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201997+21 −11September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201887+19 −16September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201784+14 −17September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201687+13 −14September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201588+10 −13September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201491+28 −10September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201373+11 −20September 29, 2026CSV
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YearCountriesChangeReadDownload
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201282+10 −17September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201189+21 −6September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 201074+13 −21September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200982+10 −11September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200883+14 −11September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200780+21 −8September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200667+11 −10September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200566+15 −10September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200461+15 −12September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200358+11 −14September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200161+14 −7September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 200054+13 −10September 29, 2026CSV
Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 199951—September 29, 2026CSV

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

025 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 Qualified Teachers in Primary Education: 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—810
ISO Codecountry_codeIdentifierThe ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code, added by this site. Every table here joins on it.Text · 3 letters—810
Primary teachers with the minimum qualifications their country requires (%)qualified_teachers_primaryHeadlineThe headline figure: Primary teachers with the minimum qualifications their country requires (%).Number · up to 14 decimals0.000Gibraltar100.00024 share itmiddle 93.657580
FemalefemaleWomenThe same share among women teachers.Number · up to 14 decimals0.000Gibraltar100.00025 share itmiddle 94.168552
MalemaleMenThe same share among men teachers.Number · up to 14 decimals0.00Gibraltar100.0023 share itmiddle 92.44563

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 better result.

03160 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 Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, by continent.
201320142015201620172018201920202021202220232024
Africa272827232526252325242318
Americas152523221820212222202416
Asia212526263028333132313330
Europe79810109111210887
Oceania344614771091010
All739188878487979599929881

The newest 12 of 25 years.

Who joined and who left

  • 2024
    + Ghana+ Gibraltar+ Malawi+ Puerto Rico+ Saudi Arabia+ Vanuatu− Angola− United Arab Emirates− Brazil− Cameroon− Cuba− Djibouti− Dominica− Spain− Micronesia− Kenya− Saint Kitts and Nevis− Saint Lucia− Sri Lanka− Lesotho− Mali− Nicaragua− Peru− Palestine− Russia− Singapore− Tunisia− Uruguay− United States
  • 2023
    + Angola+ Bahamas+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Micronesia+ Guyana+ Indonesia+ Mali+ Mauritius+ Nepal+ Nauru+ Peru+ Russia+ Sierra Leone+ El Salvador+ Syria+ Turkmenistan+ Ukraine+ Venezuela− Botswana− Colombia− Comoros− Cabo Verde− Eritrea− Liberia− Latvia− Maldives− Mozambique− Saudi Arabia− Slovakia− Eswatini− Vanuatu
  • 2022
    + Bahrain+ Botswana+ Eritrea+ Liberia+ Maldives+ Mongolia+ Mozambique+ Nicaragua+ Slovakia+ Eswatini+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia− Angola− Albania− Benin− Bahamas− DR Congo− Cyprus− Dominican Republic− Egypt− Micronesia− Ghana− Kuwait− Mexico− Malta− Mauritius− Nepal− Sierra Leone− Suriname− Turkmenistan− Ukraine
  • 2021
    + Angola+ Albania+ Bahamas+ Cameroon+ DR Congo+ Comoros+ Grenada+ Lebanon+ Niger+ Pakistan+ Palau+ Rwanda+ Chad+ Tuvalu+ Vanuatu− Burundi− Bahrain− Costa Rica− Gibraltar− Guinea− Liberia− Lithuania− Mozambique− Portugal− Trinidad and Tobago− Tunisia
  • 2020
    + Ecuador+ Gibraltar+ Guinea+ Kiribati+ Kuwait+ Liberia+ Niue+ Turks and Caicos Islands+ Trinidad and Tobago+ Tunisia− Bahamas− Gabon− Madagascar− Maldives− Mongolia− Mauritania− Montserrat− Pakistan− Rwanda− Sudan− Solomon Islands− Tuvalu
  • 2019
    + Armenia+ Brazil+ Cook Islands+ Colombia+ Dominica+ Fiji+ Gabon+ India+ Kenya+ Saint Lucia+ Monaco+ Moldova+ Marshall Islands+ Malta+ Malaysia+ Nepal+ Sudan+ Senegal+ Togo+ Thailand+ Turkmenistan− Antigua and Barbuda− DR Congo− Djibouti− Eritrea− Grenada− Myanmar− Niger− Nigeria− Russia− El Salvador− Tunisia
  • 2018
    + United Arab Emirates+ Belize+ DR Congo+ Cayman Islands+ Djibouti+ Egypt+ Eritrea+ Micronesia+ Jamaica+ Lesotho+ Myanmar+ Mongolia+ Montserrat+ Niger+ Nigeria+ Pakistan+ San Marino+ Tonga+ Tuvalu− Cameroon− Colombia− Gibraltar− India− Iran− Liberia− Malta− Malaysia− Nepal− Panama− São Tomé and Príncipe− Eswatini− Thailand− Tajikistan− Uganda− Zambia
  • 2017
    + Antigua and Barbuda+ Azerbaijan+ Cameroon+ Cyprus+ Gambia+ India+ Mauritania+ Oman+ Rwanda+ Sierra Leone+ Uganda+ Uzbekistan+ Saint Vincent and the Grenadines+ Zambia− Belize− Bermuda− Cook Islands− Dominica− Egypt− Guinea− Jamaica− Kiribati− Lesotho− Mongolia− Montserrat− Niger− Niue− Nauru− Puerto Rico− Tuvalu− Tanzania

Not in this dataset · 65 places this site covers

UIS gives no figure for these in any year held here. It is the publisher’s choice of scope, and each place’s profile shows what is measured.

AfghanistanAmerican SamoaArgentinaAustraliaAustriaBelgiumBosnia and HerzegovinaBulgariaCanadaCentral African RepublicChannel IslandsChileChinaCuraçaoCzechiaDenmarkEstoniaFaroe IslandsFinlandFranceFrench PolynesiaGermanyGreeceGreenlandGuamGuatemalaHaitiHungaryIcelandIrelandIsle of ManIsraelItalyJapanKosovoLibyaLiechtensteinLuxembourgMontenegroNetherlandsNew CaledoniaNew ZealandNorth KoreaNorth MacedoniaNorthern CyprusNorthern Mariana IslandsNorwayPapua New GuineaPolandRomaniaSaint MartinSamoaSint MaartenSloveniaSomaliaSomalilandSwedenSwitzerlandTaiwanTimor-LesteTürkiyeUnited KingdomUnited States Virgin IslandsVatican CityYemen

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)

    databrowser.uis.unesco.org

  2. 2 · Their file

    Qualified Teachers in Primary Education 2024

    indicators

  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

    25 files, one per year

    Each downloads as a CSV, or every year together as qualified-teachers-primary-all-editions-nations-inquiry.csv

  5. 5 · Used on

    Its statistic page, and every profile it measures

    /statistics/qualified-teachers-primary

Precision

The headline is stored to 14 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 (TRTP.1), reported by countries through UIS’s annual Survey of Formal Education. Editions reporting fewer than 50 countries are not written. The same share among women and among men teachers is stored beside the headline.

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), Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, via Nations Inquiry.

Cite this dataset

UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS). Qualified Teachers in Primary Education, 1999–2024 [data set]. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/qualified-teachers-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

Qualified Teachers in Primary Education: questions and answers

What is the Qualified Teachers in Primary Education?

This is the share of primary-school teachers who hold at least the minimum qualification their own country requires of them — SDG indicator 4.c.1. It describes the teaching workforce rather than the pupils.

Which years of the Qualified Teachers in Primary Education can I download?

All 25, from 1999 to 2024, each as a CSV file, or every year together in one CSV.

Does UIS rank countries on it?

No, and this site does not order it either. The files hold values only.

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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