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Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre by country

Teachers in primary education, female (number) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Countries reporting
196
Highest
68.08 number per square kilometre
Monaco
Lowest
0.003 number per square kilometre
Central African Republic
Median
0.277 number per square kilometre
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
7,320

What the numbers show

Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre is currently reported for 196 countries. The highest value is 68.08 number per square kilometre in Monaco; the lowest is 0.003 number per square kilometre in Central African Republic.

The median across all reporting countries is 0.277 number per square kilometre, and the mean is 1.64 number per square kilometre.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 22,778.

Over the past decade 152 countries rose and 38 fell. The largest increase was in Libya (up 436.2%), and the largest decrease in Puerto Rico (down 39.8%).

Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Monaco 68.08 number per square kilometre 2020 up 5.3% rising
2 Macau, China 59.76 number per square kilometre 2019 up 26.8% rising
3 Hong Kong, China 20.8 number per square kilometre 2019 up 20.5% rising
4 Singapore 18.37 number per square kilometre 2018 up 6.5% rising
5 Gibraltar 17.2 number per square kilometre 2019 up 8.9% rising
6 Maldives 12.85 number per square kilometre 2019 up 48.8% rising
7 Bahrain 9.07 number per square kilometre 2019 up 21.1% volatile
8 Bermuda 6.87 number per square kilometre 2016 down 26.8% rising
9 Malta 5.35 number per square kilometre 2017 up 19.4% rising
10 San Marino 3.7 number per square kilometre 2019 down 3.1% rising
11 Lebanon 3.53 number per square kilometre 2019 up 26.1% rising
12 Israel 3.07 number per square kilometre 2018 up 33.4% rising
13 Aruba 2.82 number per square kilometre 2012 up 23.6% rising
14 Tuvalu 2.8 number per square kilometre 2019 — rising
15 Bangladesh 2.72 number per square kilometre 2018 up 131.1% volatile
16 Palestine, State of 2.68 number per square kilometre 2019 up 71.8% rising
17 Netherlands 2.61 number per square kilometre 2018 down 7.1% volatile
18 Naoero 2.6 number per square kilometre 2019 unchanged flat
19 Barbados 2.49 number per square kilometre 2019 down 14.9% rising
20 Mauritius 2.26 number per square kilometre 2019 up 23.9% rising
21 Belgium 1.98 number per square kilometre 2018 up 13.9% rising
22 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1.97 number per square kilometre 2018 down 2.9% rising
23 Grenada 1.94 number per square kilometre 2018 up 42.1% rising
24 Antigua and Barbuda 1.71 number per square kilometre 2018 up 19.2% rising
25 American Samoa 1.71 number per square kilometre 1992 up 86.3% rising
26 Kuwait 1.65 number per square kilometre 2019 up 33.2% volatile
27 British Virgin Islands 1.56 number per square kilometre 2018 up 20.6% rising
28 Saint Lucia 1.51 number per square kilometre 2019 up 4.2% rising
29 Philippines 1.45 number per square kilometre 2018 up 27.1% rising
30 Puerto Rico 1.42 number per square kilometre 2018 down 39.8% falling
31 Saint Kitts and Nevis 1.39 number per square kilometre 2016 up 17.2% rising
32 Luxembourg 1.39 number per square kilometre 2018 up 67.0% rising
33 Republic of Korea 1.32 number per square kilometre 2018 up 8.5% rising
34 Liechtenstein 1.27 number per square kilometre 2018 down 19.8% flat
35 Seychelles 1.18 number per square kilometre 2019 up 2.1% rising
36 Trinidad and Tobago 1.14 number per square kilometre 2009 down 4.3% rising
37 Sri Lanka 1.11 number per square kilometre 2018 up 18.1% rising
38 Dominican Republic 1.11 number per square kilometre 2019 up 29.5% rising
39 Switzerland 1.09 number per square kilometre 2018 up 17.2% rising
40 Cayman Islands 1.02 number per square kilometre 2018 down 9.6% rising
41 Burundi 1.01 number per square kilometre 2019 up 44.9% volatile
42 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 0.9949 number per square kilometre 2018 up 20.9% rising
43 Rwanda 0.9868 number per square kilometre 2019 up 35.9% volatile
44 Viet Nam 0.9684 number per square kilometre 2019 up 12.4% rising
45 Jamaica 0.9317 number per square kilometre 2019 down 9.0% rising
46 Qatar 0.9065 number per square kilometre 2019 up 68.7% volatile
47 El Salvador 0.876 number per square kilometre 2018 down 18.2% rising
48 Italy 0.8171 number per square kilometre 2018 down 7.1% rising
49 Denmark 0.7952 number per square kilometre 2018 — rising
50 India 0.7935 number per square kilometre 2019 up 12.1% volatile
51 Tonga 0.7889 number per square kilometre 2015 up 7.0% rising
52 Poland 0.7686 number per square kilometre 2018 up 17.6% falling
53 Guatemala 0.7058 number per square kilometre 2019 up 21.7% volatile
54 Comoros 0.7018 number per square kilometre 2018 down 3.9% volatile
55 Andorra 0.6957 number per square kilometre 2019 down 3.8% rising
56 Sao Tome and Principe 0.6823 number per square kilometre 2017 up 19.5% rising
57 Japan 0.6813 number per square kilometre 2005 down 10.3% rising
58 Kiribati 0.6605 number per square kilometre 2016 up 12.4% rising
59 Costa Rica 0.6592 number per square kilometre 2019 up 45.3% rising
60 Indonesia 0.6324 number per square kilometre 2019 up 27.6% rising
61 Nepal 0.6255 number per square kilometre 2019 up 61.8% volatile
62 Cuba 0.6249 number per square kilometre 2019 down 7.1% rising
63 Dominica 0.6187 number per square kilometre 2019 up 5.5% rising
64 Jordan 0.6143 number per square kilometre 2019 up 13.3% volatile
65 Germany 0.6122 number per square kilometre 2018 up 4.5% rising
66 Brunei Darussalam 0.5947 number per square kilometre 2019 up 10.5% volatile
67 Cape Verde 0.537 number per square kilometre 2018 up 3.6% rising
68 Thailand 0.5297 number per square kilometre 2019 up 29.7% rising
69 Haiti 0.5232 number per square kilometre 1998 up 30.8% rising
70 Malaysia 0.4987 number per square kilometre 2019 down 3.5% rising
71 China 0.4675 number per square kilometre 2019 up 28.5% rising
72 Azerbaijan 0.459 number per square kilometre 2019 down 1.6% rising
73 Portugal 0.4534 number per square kilometre 2018 down 22.3% flat
74 Georgia 0.4518 number per square kilometre 2019 up 8.7% rising
75 Iraq 0.4514 number per square kilometre 2007 up 91.2% volatile
76 Uganda 0.4451 number per square kilometre 2017 up 49.2% volatile
77 Cyprus 0.4348 number per square kilometre 2018 up 26.7% rising
78 Syrian Arab Republic 0.4307 number per square kilometre 2002 up 21.0% volatile
79 Slovenia 0.4185 number per square kilometre 2016 up 40.9% rising
80 Malawi 0.3983 number per square kilometre 2019 up 136.4% rising
81 Ireland 0.3976 number per square kilometre 2012 up 32.5% rising
82 Greece 0.3934 number per square kilometre 2018 up 25.0% rising
83 Hungary 0.3878 number per square kilometre 2016 down 10.8% falling
84 French Polynesia 0.3773 number per square kilometre 1996 up 7.9% rising
85 France 0.3757 number per square kilometre 2018 up 13.1% rising
86 Austria 0.3712 number per square kilometre 2017 up 17.1% rising
87 Pakistan 0.3706 number per square kilometre 2019 up 32.1% volatile
88 Eswatini 0.3649 number per square kilometre 2018 up 24.3% rising
89 Gambia 0.3613 number per square kilometre 2019 up 70.4% volatile
90 Spain 0.3596 number per square kilometre 2018 up 12.9% rising
91 Egypt 0.3321 number per square kilometre 2019 up 67.0% rising
92 Ghana 0.3182 number per square kilometre 2019 up 94.5% rising
93 Czechia 0.3166 number per square kilometre 2012 down 16.5% falling
94 Albania 0.3045 number per square kilometre 2019 down 13.0% falling
95 Nigeria 0.3038 number per square kilometre 2010 up 29.5% volatile
96 Tunisia 0.2933 number per square kilometre 2018 up 40.5% rising
97 Honduras 0.292 number per square kilometre 2019 up 19.1% rising
98 Samoa 0.2788 number per square kilometre 2010 down 5.1% falling
99 Lesotho 0.2752 number per square kilometre 2017 up 0.6% rising
100 Slovakia 0.2748 number per square kilometre 2018 up 9.3% falling
101 Myanmar 0.2675 number per square kilometre 2018 up 17.8% rising
102 North Macedonia 0.2494 number per square kilometre 2018 up 23.2% rising
103 Ecuador 0.2483 number per square kilometre 2018 down 2.6% rising
104 Uzbekistan 0.2463 number per square kilometre 2019 up 3.3% rising
105 United Arab Emirates 0.2422 number per square kilometre 2016 up 16.1% volatile
106 Türkiye 0.2392 number per square kilometre 2018 up 4.8% rising
107 Kenya 0.2344 number per square kilometre 2015 up 110.5% rising
108 Republic of Moldova 0.232 number per square kilometre 2019 down 15.8% falling
109 Morocco 0.2279 number per square kilometre 2019 up 38.9% volatile
110 Armenia 0.225 number per square kilometre 2019 down 2.7% falling
111 Timor-Leste 0.2151 number per square kilometre 2019 up 11.8% rising
112 Croatia 0.2076 number per square kilometre 2018 up 11.8% rising
113 Mexico 0.1982 number per square kilometre 2018 up 10.6% rising
114 Sierra Leone 0.1979 number per square kilometre 2019 up 49.4% volatile
115 Panama 0.1974 number per square kilometre 2017 up 6.2% rising
116 Turks and Caicos Islands 0.1968 number per square kilometre 2018 up 79.8% rising
117 Nicaragua 0.1957 number per square kilometre 2010 up 21.6% rising
118 Romania 0.1919 number per square kilometre 2018 down 5.9% falling
119 Tajikistan 0.1893 number per square kilometre 2017 up 31.2% rising
120 Serbia 0.185 number per square kilometre 2019 up 10.7% rising
121 Ukraine 0.184 number per square kilometre 2019 up 9.6% flat
122 Cambodia 0.17 number per square kilometre 2019 up 42.4% rising
123 United States of America 0.1684 number per square kilometre 2017 — rising
124 Bulgaria 0.1651 number per square kilometre 2018 up 17.4% falling
125 Estonia 0.1621 number per square kilometre 2018 up 19.0% falling
126 South Africa 0.1618 number per square kilometre 2015 up 11.5% rising
127 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0.1607 number per square kilometre 2019 up 3.0% flat
128 Latvia 0.1576 number per square kilometre 2018 up 0.1% rising
129 Burkina Faso 0.144 number per square kilometre 2019 up 202.7% volatile
130 Bahamas 0.141 number per square kilometre 2018 down 30.6% rising
131 Sweden 0.1392 number per square kilometre 2018 up 14.3% rising
132 Lithuania 0.1314 number per square kilometre 2018 down 19.0% falling
133 Colombia 0.1284 number per square kilometre 2017 up 2.0% rising
134 Togo 0.1272 number per square kilometre 2019 up 91.6% volatile
135 Benin 0.1255 number per square kilometre 2019 up 96.9% volatile
136 Fiji 0.1195 number per square kilometre 2012 down 5.8% falling
137 Iran, Islamic Republic of 0.1191 number per square kilometre 2017 up 21.3% rising
138 Madagascar 0.1154 number per square kilometre 2019 up 31.7% rising
139 Cameroon 0.1134 number per square kilometre 2019 up 62.4% volatile
140 Peru 0.1115 number per square kilometre 2019 up 16.4% rising
141 Kyrgyzstan 0.1105 number per square kilometre 2019 up 33.1% flat
142 Tanzania, United Republic of 0.1102 number per square kilometre 2019 up 26.6% volatile
143 Belarus 0.109 number per square kilometre 2018 down 5.7% falling
144 Norway 0.1075 number per square kilometre 2018 up 10.6% rising
145 Senegal 0.107 number per square kilometre 2019 up 45.8% volatile
146 Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of 0.1058 number per square kilometre 1987 up 73.5% rising
147 Zimbabwe 0.1053 number per square kilometre 2013 up 31.3% rising
148 Chile 0.0959 number per square kilometre 2018 up 35.8% rising
149 Côte d'Ivoire 0.0956 number per square kilometre 2019 up 129.3% volatile
150 Uruguay 0.0935 number per square kilometre 1997 up 38.1% rising
151 Argentina 0.0922 number per square kilometre 2008 up 21.0% rising
152 Belize 0.088 number per square kilometre 2019 up 19.4% rising
153 Ethiopia 0.0856 number per square kilometre 2011 up 235.8% volatile
154 Brazil 0.0846 number per square kilometre 2018 up 0.3% rising
155 New Zealand 0.0836 number per square kilometre 2018 up 15.9% rising
156 Lao People's Democratic Republic 0.0832 number per square kilometre 2019 up 21.7% rising
157 Vanuatu 0.0812 number per square kilometre 2015 down 5.3% volatile
158 Algeria 0.0765 number per square kilometre 2019 up 154.0% rising
159 Afghanistan 0.0741 number per square kilometre 2018 up 46.6% volatile
160 Finland 0.0713 number per square kilometre 2018 up 11.4% rising
161 Mozambique 0.071 number per square kilometre 2019 up 81.7% volatile
162 Congo, Democratic Republic of the 0.0687 number per square kilometre 2018 up 129.8% volatile
163 Solomon Islands 0.0657 number per square kilometre 2018 down 15.2% volatile
164 Oman 0.0639 number per square kilometre 2019 — volatile
165 Equatorial Guinea 0.0636 number per square kilometre 2015 up 155.7% volatile
166 Paraguay 0.0622 number per square kilometre 2012 down 3.9% rising
167 Saudi Arabia 0.0562 number per square kilometre 2019 down 14.6% rising
168 Liberia 0.0545 number per square kilometre 2017 up 133.5% rising
169 Zambia 0.053 number per square kilometre 2017 up 62.7% volatile
170 Guinea 0.0469 number per square kilometre 2016 up 62.3% volatile
171 Bolivia, Plurinational State of 0.0464 number per square kilometre 2018 down 5.8% rising
172 Guinea-Bissau 0.0416 number per square kilometre 2010 up 69.8% rising
173 Papua New Guinea 0.0392 number per square kilometre 2016 up 216.3% volatile
174 Angola 0.0363 number per square kilometre 2016 up 30.3% rising
175 Bhutan 0.0318 number per square kilometre 2020 down 35.3% volatile
176 Suriname 0.0312 number per square kilometre 2019 up 16.2% rising
177 Djibouti 0.0305 number per square kilometre 2020 up 62.5% volatile
178 Kazakhstan 0.0297 number per square kilometre 2019 up 40.9% rising
179 Eritrea 0.0291 number per square kilometre 2018 up 8.7% rising
180 Niger 0.0285 number per square kilometre 2019 up 98.7% volatile
181 Gabon 0.0266 number per square kilometre 2011 up 165.3% volatile
182 Iceland 0.026 number per square kilometre 2018 up 6.3% volatile
183 Congo 0.0259 number per square kilometre 2012 up 151.8% volatile
184 Russian Federation 0.0195 number per square kilometre 2018 up 13.8% falling
185 Botswana 0.0191 number per square kilometre 2015 up 8.0% rising
186 Guyana 0.0183 number per square kilometre 2012 up 0.7% rising
187 Mali 0.017 number per square kilometre 2018 up 119.4% volatile
188 Namibia 0.0163 number per square kilometre 2018 up 45.5% rising
189 Libya 0.0129 number per square kilometre 1983 up 436.2% volatile
190 Canada 0.0107 number per square kilometre 2000 down 6.7% flat
191 Australia 0.0104 number per square kilometre 1997 up 22.5% rising
192 Chad 0.0067 number per square kilometre 2019 up 147.2% volatile
193 Mongolia 0.0062 number per square kilometre 2018 up 32.6% rising
194 Mauritania 0.0057 number per square kilometre 2019 up 22.7% volatile
195 Somalia 0.0034 number per square kilometre 2007 — volatile
196 Central African Republic 0.003 number per square kilometre 2016 up 163.0% rising

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Aggregates are excluded from the country ranking above so that a region can never outrank a country.

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Teachers in primary education, female (number) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.

Teachers in primary education, female (number) ÷ Land area (sq. km)

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Indicator
Teachers in primary education, female (number), per square kilometre
Unit
number per square kilometre
Source
Statizoid (derived)
Licence
Derived by Statizoid from the sources named on the page
Coverage
241 places, 7,320 data points, 1970–2020
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Teachers in primary education, female (number) divided by Land area (sq. km), matched on country and year. Neither publisher issues this ratio as a series; it is computed here from both.