Qualified primary teachers in Tonga

In Tonga, 96.7% of primary school teachers had the minimum required qualifications in 2024.

Measure: Teachers with the minimum required qualifications, primary education Unit: % of primary teachers Data: 1998 to 2024 Source: UNESCO UIS
Tonga, 2024 96.7% % of primary teachers
Change from 2023 +3.4percentage points 2023: 93.3%
Position in 2024 33rd of 79 See the full ranking

Qualified primary teachers in Tonga 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), 2013 to 2024
Period Tonga
2024 96.7%
2023 93.3%
2022 96.9%
2021 97.5%
2020 94.1%
2019 92.9%
2018 94.9%
2015 92.5%
2014 97.1%
2013 99.6%

A dash means no value was published for that period.

In short

  • That is a change of +3.4 percentage points from 93.3% in 2023.
  • Since 1998, when it was 87.2%, the figure has changed by +9.5 percentage points.
  • Among the 79 countries with data for 2024, Tonga has the 33rd highest value.

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
1998 to 2024 for Tonga
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