Education > Secondary education, teachers: Countries Compared

DEFINITION: Secondary education, teachers. Teaching staff in total secondary. Public and private. Full and part-time. All programmes. Total is the total number of teachers in public and private secondary education institutions (ISCED 2 and 3). 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.

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#	COUNTRY	AMOUNT	DATE
1	China	6.43 million	2011
2	India	4.39 million	2011
3	European Union	3.68 million	2011
4	United States	1.67 million	2011
5	Indonesia	1.41 million	2011
6	Russia	1.14 million	2009
	Group of 7 countries (G7) average (profile)	703,228.5	2007
7	Mexico	669,583	2011
8	Japan	617,642	2011
9	Germany	584,535	2011
10	Egypt	549,344	2009
11	France	463,976	2011
12	Italy	450,757	2007
13	Ukraine	389,387	2000
14	Bangladesh	376,914	2011
15	United Kingdom	375,385	2008
16	Uzbekistan	329,168	2011
17	Argentina	323,957	2008
18	Brazil	308,552	1970
19	Poland	305,993	2011
20	Spain	293,861	2011
21	Iran	280,309	1997
22	Nigeria	273,781	2010
23	Saudi Arabia	264,141	2009
24	Democratic Republic of the Congo	253,929	2012
25	Thailand	245,769	2011
26	South Korea	239,292	2011
27	Vietnam	236,886	1998
28	Turkey	218,829	1997
29	Pakistan	197,082	2004
30	Philippines	194,373	2009
31	Colombia	193,087	2012
32	Kazakhstan	191,094	2012
33	Malaysia	190,581	2010
34	South Africa	187,162	2009
35	Peru	160,018	2011
	Eurozone average (profile)	155,801.13	2005
	NATO countries average (profile)	155,745.05	2001
36	Algeria	151,948	1997
37	Sri Lanka	149,153	2011
38	Iraq	148,363	2007
39	Romania	137,170	2011
40	Ecuador	132,867	2012
	European Union average (profile)	129,695.57	2008
41	Canada	126,098	1998
42	Ghana	124,436	2012
43	Ethiopia	122,147	2012
44	Netherlands	113,370	2011
45	Belgium	108,723	2002
46	Kenya	107,970	2009
47	Australia	104,110	1992
48	Yemen	102,142	2011
49	Nepal	101,968	2012
50	Morocco	100,367	2004
51	Portugal	98,089	2010
52	Cuba	93,067	2012
53	Hungary	88,003	2011
54	Greece	86,513	2007
55	Tunisia	84,562	2011
56	Burma	83,703	2010
57	Sudan	82,665	2009
58	Belarus	81,700	1995
59	Tanzania	80,250	2012
60	Cameroon	79,943	2012
61	Guatemala	76,850	2011
62	Austria	74,754	2011
63	Sweden	73,492	2011
64	Czech Republic	71,092.1	2011
65	Chile	70,903	2011
66	Tajikistan	67,698	2011
67	Syria	65,218	2002
68	Uganda	63,400	2008
69	Serbia	62,374	2012
70	Venezuela	61,671	1987
71	Bolivia	57,912	2007
72	Switzerland	56,500	1998
73	Israel	55,218.77	2011
74	Madagascar	50,842	2012
75	Norway	49,191	1995
76	Croatia	47,995	2011
77	Slovakia	45,438	2011
78	Georgia	45,147	2009
79	Finland	44,493	2011
80	Paraguay	44,440	2004
81	Denmark	43,921	2001
82	Kyrgyzstan	43,672	2010
83	Bulgaria	42,557	2011
84	Lebanon	42,387	2011
85	Lithuania	37,981	2011
86	New Zealand	35,381	2011
87	Jordan	34,294	2003
88	Zimbabwe	33,964	2003
89	Mali	33,220	2011
90	Afghanistan	32,817	2007
91	Armenia	32,674	1994
92	Angola	32,279	2011
93	Dominican Republic	31,289	2011
94	Kuwait	31,206	2009
95	Libya	30,673	1983
96	Senegal	30,491	2011
97	Cambodia	30,258	2007
98	Moldova	28,662	2012
99	Costa Rica	28,111	2011
100	Ireland	27,273	1997
101	Puerto Rico	26,161	2010
102	Burkina Faso	25,684	2012
103	Uruguay	25,390	2010
104	United Arab Emirates	24,994	2012
105	Laos	24,652	2011
106	Panama	24,631	2012
107	El Salvador	24,556	2011
108	Hong Kong	23,536	1996
109	Albania	23,452	2012
110	Rwanda	23,335	2012
111	Mozambique	22,008	2012
	OPEC countries average (profile)	21,520.11	1979
112	Guinea	21,501	2012
113	Togo	20,798	2011
114	Cote d'Ivoire	20,124	1999
115	Mongolia	19,043	2010
116	Malawi	18,336	2012
117	Republic of the Congo	18,165	2012
118	Honduras	16,667	2004
119	Republic of Macedonia	16,537	2010
120	Latvia	16,380	2011
121	Oman	16,077	2003
122	Singapore	15,560	2009
123	Chad	15,384	2012
124	Nicaragua	15,089	2010
125	Slovenia	15,047	2011
126	Benin	14,410	2004
127	Burundi	14,141	2012
128	Jamaica	13,006	2007
129	Botswana	12,798	2007
130	Estonia	10,344	2011
131	Niger	9,873	2011
132	Bahrain	8,646	2012
133	Mauritius	8,643	2012
134	Qatar	7,899	2012
135	Eritrea	7,010	2012
136	Zambia	6,703	1988
137	Cyprus	6,466	2011
138	Namibia	6,423	2007
139	Sierra Leone	5,840	2001
140	Haiti	5,619	1984
141	Swaziland	5,526	2011
142	Lesotho	5,234	2012
143	Brunei	5,192	2012
144	Liberia	5,132	2000
145	Luxembourg	5,007	2010
146	Somalia	4,504	2007
147	East Timor	4,441	2011
148	Malta	4,419	2011
149	Trinidad and Tobago	4,377	1981
150	Suriname	4,334	2011
151	Guyana	4,148	2011
152	Mauritania	3,843	2007
153	Fiji	3,813	2011
154	Cape Verde	3,689	2012
155	Bhutan	3,322	2012
156	Papua New Guinea	3,293	1992
157	Comoros	3,111	2004
158	Gabon	3,078	1999
159	The Bahamas	2,837	2010
160	Macau	2,480	2012
161	Iceland	2,387	1976
162	Belize	2,142	2012
163	Maldives	2,088	2003
164	Djibouti	2,074	2012
165	New Caledonia	1,940	1997
166	Central African Republic	1,848	2012
167	Solomon Islands	1,607	2012
168	French Polynesia	1,592	1993
169	The Gambia	1,547	1996
170	Guinea-Bissau	1,480	2006
171	Barbados	1,430	2006
172	Samoa	1,211	2010
173	Saint Lucia	1,027	2012
174	Tonga	1,021	2011
175	Equatorial Guinea	894	2000
176	Vanuatu	883	2002
177	Guam	880	1989
178	Andorra	811	2012
179	Grenada	744	2010
180	Antigua and Barbuda	706	2011
181	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	680	2012
182	Bermuda	670	2011
183	Kiribati	664	2008
184	Seychelles	603	2011
185	Sao Tome and Principe	601	2011
186	San Marino	586	2012
187	Dominica	535	2011
188	Aruba	532	2010
189	Monaco	519	2008
190	Saint Kitts and Nevis	448	2012
191	Marshall Islands	387	2003
192	Cayman Islands	363	2011
193	Liechtenstein	309	2011
194	American Samoa	266	1992
195	Turks and Caicos Islands	186	2005
196	Palau	126	2000

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