Qualified primary teachers in Brazil

Name: Qualified primary teachers in Brazil
Creator: UNESCO UIS
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In Brazil, 88.2% of primary school teachers had the minimum required qualifications in 2023.

Teachers with the minimum required qualifications, primary education % of primary teachers Data: 2019 to 2023 Source: UNESCO UIS

Brazil, 2023 88.2% % of primary teachers

Change from 2022 +0.2percentage points 2022: 88.0%

Median of G20 countries, 2023 93.9% Middle value of 6 countries

Qualified primary teachers in Brazil over time

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% of primary teachers. Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org. Gaps mean no published value; points are not joined across missing years.

Teachers with the minimum required qualifications, primary education (% of primary teachers), 2019 to 2023
Period	Brazil
2023	88.2%
2022	88.0%
2021	89.2%
2020	92.2%
2019	91.2%

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In short

That is a change of +0.2 percentage points from 88.0% in 2022.
Since 2019, when it was 91.2%, the figure has changed by −2.9 percentage points.

More for Brazil

All statistics for Brazil

ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 19.4% 2025 · ILOSTAT Primary completion (UIS) 97.6% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Lower secondary completion 91.7% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Upper secondary completion 75.8% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 2.2%nat_est 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school adolescents 3.6%nat_est 2024 · UNESCO UIS

Source and dates

Original producer: UNESCO UIS
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS)
Dataset or series code: TRTP.1 · dataset details · view at source
Observation period: 2019 to 2023 for Brazil
Provider update: Not stated by the provider
Retrieved: 9 November 2026
Published here: 9 November 2026
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
Attribution: Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), databrowser.uis.unesco.org

Brazil by sex

Total 88.2%2023
Women 89.0%2023
Men 83.1%2023

Each group's most recent published value. Open a group to see its trend.

What this measures

Share of primary school teachers who have at least the minimum academic qualifications required to teach at that level in the country (SDG indicator 4.c.1).

Each country sets its own minimum qualification, so the share is not a measure of the same standard everywhere.

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