Teachers with the minimum required qualifications, primary education
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).
79 countries have a value for 2024, the latest period with data for most countries. Some countries have newer figures; see the ranking below for each country's latest year.
Trend 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.
| Period | United States | India | Brazil |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | – | 91.4% | – |
| 2024 | – | 91.7% | – |
| 2023 | 100.0% | 91.8% | 88.2% |
| 2022 | 100.0% | 88.7% | 88.0% |
| 2021 | 100.0% | 89.5% | 89.2% |
| 2020 | 100.0% | 77.7% | 92.2% |
| 2019 | 100.0% | 73.1% | 91.2% |
| 2018 | 100.0% | – | – |
| 2017 | 100.0% | 69.8% | – |
| 2016 | 100.0% | – | – |
| 2015 | 100.0% | – | – |
| 2014 | 100.0% | – | – |
A dash means no value was published for that period.
In short
- Among the 79 countries with a value for 2024, the highest is Algeria (100.0%) and the lowest Gibraltar (0.0%).
- Half of the countries are above 93.6% and half below.
- From 2023 to 2024 the value rose in 33 countries and fell in 15.
About this measure
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- Each country sets its own minimum qualification, so the share is not a measure of the same standard everywhere.
Source and dates
All countries in 2024 Every value is for 2024, so the countries are compared at the same point in time.
- 1 Algeria 100.0%
- 2 Andorra 100.0%
- 3 Bahrain 100.0%
- 4 Bhutan 100.0%
- 5 Cambodia 100.0%
- 6 Cayman Islands 100.0%
- 7 Côte d'Ivoire 100.0%
- 8 Jordan 100.0%
- 9 Kazakhstan 100.0%
- 10 Mauritius 100.0%
- 11 Moldova 100.0%
- 12 Morocco 100.0%
- 13 Naoero 100.0%
- 14 Oman 100.0%
- 15 Palau 100.0%
- 16 Philippines 100.0%
- 17 Qatar 100.0%
- 18 San Marino 100.0%
- 19 Saudi Arabia 100.0%
- 20 South Korea 100.0%
- 21 Thailand 100.0%
- 22 Uzbekistan 100.0%
- 23 Azerbaijan 99.7%
- 24 Turkmenistan 99.5%
- 25 Belarus 99.5%
- 26 Turks and Caicos Islands 99.3%
- 27 Macao SAR, China 98.8%
- 28 Niger 98.8%
- 29 Zimbabwe 97.9%
- 30 El Salvador 97.5%
- 31 Jamaica 97.4%
- 32 British Virgin Islands 97.2%
- 33 Tonga 96.7%
- 34 Nepal 96.1%
- 35 Kyrgyzstan 95.5%
- 36 Namibia 95.4%
- 37 Malawi 94.8%
- 38 Malaysia 94.0%
- 39 Bolivia 93.7%
- 40 Hong Kong SAR, China 93.6%
- 41 India 91.7%
- 42 Burkina Faso 91.0%
- 43 Ukraine 89.9%
- 44 Gambia 89.8%
- 45 Seychelles 89.7%
- 46 Ecuador 89.6%
- 47 Kiribati 89.4%
- 48 Ghana 89.3%
- 49 Viet Nam 89.2%
- 50 Bahamas 89.2%
- 51 Fiji 89.2%
- 52 Belize 88.7%
- 53 Venezuela 88.3%
- 54 Egypt 87.1%
- 55 Brunei 86.5%
- 56 Mongolia 86.1%
- 57 Armenia 84.9%
- 58 Trinidad and Tobago 83.9%
- 59 Guyana 82.2%
- 60 Togo 81.0%
- 61 Monaco 80.0%
- 62 Bangladesh 77.9%
- 63 Senegal 77.1%
- 64 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 76.3%
- 65 Barbados 75.9%
- 66 Pakistan 75.0%
- 67 Sierra Leone 69.8%
- 68 Rwanda 67.6%
- 69 Grenada 67.4%
- 70 Laos 65.7%
- 71 Tuvalu 60.2%
- 72 Lebanon 53.7%
- 73 Vanuatu 51.7%
- 74 Marshall Islands 50.6%
- 75 Syria 38.3%
- 76 Indonesia 33.5%
- 77 Chad 29.4%
- 78 Puerto Rico (US) 25.0%
- 79 Gibraltar 0.0%
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Grey: no value for 2024. Colour groups split countries into roughly equal numbers. Boundaries: Natural Earth.