Education > Primary education, teachers per 1000: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Primary education, teachers. Teaching staff in primary. Public and private. Full and part-time. All programmes. Total is the total number of teachers in public and private primary education institutions. Teachers are persons employed full time or part time in an official capacity to guide and direct the learning experience of pupils and students, irrespective of their qualifications or the delivery mechanism, i.e. face-to-face and/or at a distance. This definition excludes educational personnel who have no active teaching duties (e.g. headmasters, headmistresses or principals who do not teach) and persons who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions. Figures expressed per thousand population for the same year.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	Federated States of Micronesia	20.4	1971
2	Libya	12.27	1983
3	Saudi Arabia	11.16	2012
4	American Samoa	10.57	1992
5	Georgia	10.17	2012
6	Iraq	9.98	2007
7	Marshall Islands	9.91	2002
8	Maldives	9.87	2011
9	Brunei	9.8	2012
10	Iceland	9.51	2011
11	French Polynesia	9.36	1996
12	Solomon Islands	9.27	2012
13	Suriname	8.87	2011
14	Antigua and Barbuda	8.49	2011
15	Israel	8.46	2011
16	Kuwait	8.24	2012
17	Malaysia	8.19	2010
18	Vanuatu	8.17	2010
19	Gabon	8.13	2011
20	Grenada	8.13	2010
21	Montenegro	8.13	2012
22	San Marino	8.03	2012
23	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	8.02	2012
24	Indonesia	7.89	2011
25	Cuba	7.87	2012
26	Tonga	7.78	2012
27	Belize	7.67	2012
28	Jordan	7.64	2003
29	Tuvalu	7.57	2004
30	Bermuda	7.53	2011
31	Ecuador	7.51	2012
32	Seychelles	7.5	2011
33	Luxembourg	7.47	2010
34	Denmark	7.44	2001
35	Uruguay	7.35	2010
36	Argentina	7.28	2008
37	Dominica	7.2	2012
38	Lebanon	7.19	2012
39	Ireland	7.18	2011
40	Liechtenstein	7.06	2011
41	Puerto Rico	6.91	2010
42	Guatemala	6.84	2011
43	Kiribati	6.8	2008
44	Swaziland	6.76	2011
45	Syria	6.75	2002
46	Botswana	6.67	2009
47	The Bahamas	6.66	2010
48	Saint Kitts and Nevis	6.63	2012
49	Sweden	6.61	2011
50	Oman	6.6	2003
51	East Timor	6.56	2011
52	Palau	6.47	2000
53	Bolivia	6.45	2007
54	New Caledonia	6.37	1991
55	Sierra Leone	6.35	2012
56	Peru	6.34	2011
57	Nepal	6.32	2012
58	Sao Tome and Principe	6.29	2012
59	Bhutan	6.21	2012
60	Costa Rica	6.17	2011
61	Liberia	6.16	2011
	Middle Eastern and North Africa average (profile)	6.16	1983
62	Bahrain	6.16	2012
63	Portugal	6.15	2011
64	Venezuela	6.14	1987
65	Barbados	6.1	2011
	OPEC countries average (profile)	6.1	2007
66	Guam	6.08	1989
67	Comoros	6	2011
68	Cape Verde	5.98	2012
69	Belgium	5.95	2011
70	Aruba	5.93	2011
71	Cayman Islands	5.83	2011
72	Saint Lucia	5.83	2012
73	Paraguay	5.77	2004
74	Tunisia	5.66	2012
75	Norway	5.63	1973
76	Trinidad and Tobago	5.63	2009
77	Poland	5.6	2011
78	Switzerland	5.58	1998
79	Australia	5.57	1999
80	Greece	5.55	2007
	Former Spanish colonies average (profile)	5.52	2004
81	Andorra	5.5	2012
82	United States	5.49	2011
83	Samoa	5.49	2010
84	Lesotho	5.46	2012
	Heavily indebted countries average (profile)	5.42	2009
85	New Zealand	5.42	2011
86	Haiti	5.37	1998
87	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5.26	2012
88	Thailand	5.26	2008
89	Nicaragua	5.25	2010
90	Yemen	5.16	2011
91	Qatar	5.15	2012
92	Panama	5.09	2012
93	Turks and Caicos Islands	5.08	2003
94	Guyana	5.07	2011
95	Dominican Republic	5.07	2011
96	Honduras	5	2009
97	Togo	4.94	2012
98	El Salvador	4.92	2011
99	Laos	4.9	2012
100	Egypt	4.87	2010
101	Ghana	4.85	2012
102	Spain	4.84	2011
103	Latvia	4.84	2011
104	Zimbabwe	4.83	2003
105	Uganda	4.82	2011
106	Angola	4.79	2010
107	Morocco	4.78	2012
108	Equatorial Guinea	4.78	2012
109	Brazil	4.76	1970
110	Philippines	4.74	2009
111	Finland	4.69	2011
112	South Africa	4.64	2012
113	Estonia	4.63	2011
114	Italy	4.6	2007
	Eurozone average (profile)	4.59	2010
115	Madagascar	4.59	2012
116	Canada	4.58	2000
117	Malta	4.58	2011
118	Jamaica	4.56	2004
119	Zambia	4.53	2012
120	Namibia	4.52	2012
	Emerging markets average (profile)	4.48	2008
121	Benin	4.48	2012
122	Mexico	4.45	2011
123	Azerbaijan	4.43	2012
124	China	4.42	2011
	NATO countries average (profile)	4.41	2001
	South and Central Asia average (profile)	4.4	2011
	Non-religious countries average (profile)	4.29	1996
125	Burundi	4.27	2012
126	Uzbekistan	4.25	2011
127	Mauritius	4.2	2012
128	Afghanistan	4.18	2011
129	European Union	4.16	2011
130	Netherlands	4.15	1994
131	Vietnam	4.12	2012
	European Union average (profile)	4.12	2011
132	Senegal	4.1	2012
133	United Kingdom	4.08	2011
134	The Gambia	4.02	2012
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	4.01	2007
135	Chile	4	2011
136	Turkey	3.98	1995
137	Colombia	3.97	2012
	Former French colonies average (profile)	3.93	2012
138	Cameroon	3.89	2012
139	Mozambique	3.88	2012
140	Algeria	3.87	2012
141	Kenya	3.84	2009
	Former Soviet republics average (profile)	3.82	2010
142	Republic of the Congo	3.81	2012
143	Fiji	3.8	2011
	South Asia average (profile)	3.79	2011
144	Tanzania	3.79	2012
145	Iran	3.78	2009
146	Kazakhstan	3.71	2012
147	Hungary	3.68	2011
148	France	3.64	2011
149	Mauritania	3.63	2012
	Sub-Saharan Africa average (profile)	3.62	1999
150	Cyprus	3.62	2011
151	Tajikistan	3.6	2012
152	Nigeria	3.59	2010
153	Austria	3.56	2011
154	Sudan	3.55	2009
155	Cote d'Ivoire	3.53	2012
156	Rwanda	3.53	2012
157	Burma	3.5	2010
158	Sri Lanka	3.46	2011
159	Singapore	3.39	2009
160	Guinea-Bissau	3.39	2010
161	Albania	3.35	2012
162	South Korea	3.31	2011
163	Republic of Macedonia	3.31	2010
164	Cambodia	3.23	2012
165	India	3.21	2011
166	Guinea	3.21	2012
167	Mongolia	3.19	2012
168	Hong Kong	3.16	2012
169	Japan	3.14	2011
170	Malawi	3.13	2012
171	Slovenia	3.12	2011
172	Germany	3.09	2011
173	Niger	3.08	2012
174	Lithuania	3.07	2011
175	Kyrgyzstan	3.04	2012
176	Mali	3.03	2011
177	Bangladesh	3	2011
178	Burkina Faso	2.95	2012
179	Ethiopia	2.95	2012
180	Macau	2.88	2012
181	Monaco	2.75	2001
182	Chad	2.74	2012
183	Croatia	2.74	2011
184	Slovakia	2.57	2011
185	Serbia	2.56	2012
186	Belarus	2.49	2012
187	Moldova	2.46	2012
188	Pakistan	2.45	2012
189	Papua New Guinea	2.38	2006
190	Czech Republic	2.37	2011
191	Romania	2.22	2011
192	Armenia	2.21	2007
193	United Arab Emirates	2.2	2012
194	Ukraine	2.16	2012
195	Djibouti	2.12	2012
196	Bulgaria	1.99	2011
197	Russia	1.96	2009
	failed states average (profile)	1.84	1972
198	Central African Republic	1.83	2012
199	Somalia	1.44	2007
200	Eritrea	1.33	2012

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