Qualified primary teachers in Kenya

Name: Qualified primary teachers in Kenya
Creator: UNESCO UIS
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In Kenya, 100.0% of primary school teachers had the minimum required qualifications in 2023.

Teachers with the minimum required qualifications, primary education % of primary teachers Data: 2003 to 2023 Source: UNESCO UIS

Kenya, 2023 100.0% % of primary teachers

Change from 2022 +2.6percentage points 2022: 97.4%

Qualified primary teachers in Kenya 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), 2003 to 2023
Period	Kenya
2023	100.0%
2022	97.4%
2021	100.0%
2020	100.0%
2019	100.0%
2009	96.8%uis_est (UIS estimate)
2008	98.4%uis_est (UIS estimate)
2007	98.7%uis_est (UIS estimate)
2006	99.4%uis_est (UIS estimate)
2005	98.9%uis_est (UIS estimate)
2004	98.8%
2003	98.7%

Flags: uis_est UIS estimate . A dash means no value was published.

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In short

That is a change of +2.6 percentage points from 97.4% in 2022.
Since 2004, when it was 98.8%, the figure has changed by +1.2 percentage points.

More for Kenya

All statistics for Kenya

ILO estimate of the youth NEET rate 19.5% 2025 · ILOSTAT Primary completion (UIS) 90.8% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Lower secondary completion 86.6% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Upper secondary completion 65.0% 2024 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school children 32.9% 2022 · UNESCO UIS Out-of-school adolescents 4.4% 2006 · 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: 2003 to 2023 for Kenya
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

Kenya by sex

Total 100.0%2023
Women 100.0%2023
Men 100.0%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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