Statizoid

Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes (number) by country

Total number of teachers in public and private tertiary education institutions (ISCED 5-8). 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....

Countries reporting
176
Highest
1.61 million number
China
Lowest
34 number
Dominica
Median
10,501 number
Years covered
51
1970–2020
Data points
5,942

What the numbers show

Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes (number) is currently reported for 176 countries. The highest value is 1.61 million number in China; the lowest is 34 number in Dominica.

The median across all reporting countries is 10,501 number, and the mean is 67,701 number.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 47,251.

Over the past decade 132 countries rose and 30 fell. The largest increase was in Togo (up 1,029.2%), and the largest decrease in Cuba (down 58.0%).

Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 China 1.61 million number 2011 up 172.9% volatile
2 United States 1.58 million number 2017 — rising
3 India 1.42 million number 2019 up 8.2% volatile
4 Japan 560,123 number 2017 up 8.6% rising
5 Russia 539,144 number 2018 down 22.1% rising
6 Brazil 448,533 number 2018 up 19.5% volatile
7 Germany 416,241 number 2018 up 12.6% rising
8 Mexico 397,142 number 2018 up 38.9% volatile
9 Indonesia 294,820 number 2018 up 3.0% volatile
10 Iran 257,621 number 2018 up 79.5% volatile
11 South Korea 220,797 number 2018 up 6.0% volatile
12 Canada 173,685 number 2016 down 17.5% rising
13 Spain 171,869 number 2018 up 18.0% volatile
14 Venezuela 164,903 number 2009 up 207.7% volatile
15 Colombia 162,209 number 2018 up 83.6% volatile
16 United Kingdom 161,145 number 2018 up 20.1% rising
17 Turkey 158,098 number 2018 up 60.1% volatile
18 Ukraine 152,977 number 2019 down 23.2% rising
19 Philippines 151,252 number 2017 up 33.9% volatile
20 Argentina 142,283 number 2009 up 40.1% volatile
21 France 109,827 number 2013 down 18.1% falling
22 Egypt 106,577 number 2014 up 32.1% volatile
23 Peru 98,475 number 2017 up 75.6% volatile
24 Thailand 97,823 number 2016 up 38.9% volatile
25 Poland 97,413 number 2015 up 2.4% rising
26 Vietnam 93,851 number 2016 up 93.2% volatile
27 Bangladesh 93,016 number 2019 up 58.4% volatile
28 Italy 92,744 number 2018 down 10.2% rising
29 Saudi Arabia 84,176 number 2019 up 113.6% volatile
30 Malaysia 76,840 number 2019 up 13.9% volatile
31 Netherlands 69,777 number 2018 up 47.2% rising
32 Nigeria 66,975 number 2011 up 27.8% volatile
33 Cuba 61,737 number 2018 down 58.0% volatile
34 Austria 59,911 number 2017 up 104.0% volatile
35 Algeria 58,647 number 2018 up 85.1% rising
36 Pakistan 56,885 number 2018 — volatile
37 Lebanon 45,916 number 2014 up 130.6% volatile
38 Kazakhstan 45,454 number 2019 down 6.9% rising
39 Ecuador 40,351 number 2015 up 77.6% volatile
40 Switzerland 36,406 number 2018 up 7.7% rising
41 Morocco 35,742 number 2019 up 82.4% volatile
42 Sweden 35,478 number 2018 down 3.0% rising
43 Portugal 34,227 number 2018 down 2.7% volatile
44 Norway 34,002 number 2018 up 43.9% volatile
45 Belgium 31,336 number 2018 up 17.7% rising
46 Democratic Republic of Congo 28,877 number 2013 up 77.0% volatile
47 Belarus 28,080 number 2018 down 29.0% falling
48 Australia 27,442 number 1992 up 25.9% rising
49 South Africa 27,099 number 1994 up 74.7% rising
50 Denmark 26,679 number 2018 — volatile
51 Uzbekistan 26,664 number 2019 up 11.8% rising
52 Romania 26,266 number 2018 down 17.8% rising
53 Myanmar 26,244 number 2018 up 146.0% volatile
54 Ethiopia 24,252 number 2014 up 404.9% volatile
55 Jordan 22,707 number 2017 up 149.7% volatile
56 Azerbaijan 22,481 number 2019 down 13.0% rising
57 Uruguay 22,433 number 2017 up 42.1% volatile
58 Tunisia 22,410 number 2012 up 96.4% volatile
59 Bulgaria 21,914 number 2018 up 2.5% rising
60 Hungary 21,705 number 2016 down 12.2% rising
61 Georgia 20,313 number 2019 up 65.2% falling
62 Dominican Republic 20,291 number 2017 up 82.6% rising
63 Iraq 19,231 number 2005 up 63.1% volatile
64 Kyrgyzstan 18,844 number 2019 up 10.2% rising
65 Cote d'Ivoire 18,666 number 2017 up 101.7% volatile
66 Ghana 17,892 number 2019 up 78.7% volatile
67 Greece 17,288 number 2018 down 40.4% rising
68 Afghanistan 17,215 number 2018 up 415.1% volatile
69 Croatia 17,004 number 2018 up 22.6% rising
70 New Zealand 16,834 number 2018 up 12.6% rising
71 Puerto Rico 16,563 number 2018 up 18.0% rising
72 Czechia 16,426 number 2013 down 25.7% rising
73 Cambodia 16,167 number 2019 up 50.3% volatile
74 Tajikistan 15,933 number 2017 up 48.3% rising
75 Libya 15,711 number 2003 — volatile
76 Finland 15,080 number 2018 up 6.0% rising
77 Armenia 14,523 number 2019 down 8.7% falling
78 Singapore 14,402 number 2018 down 5.0% volatile
79 Mozambique 14,104 number 2018 up 437.5% volatile
80 Panama 13,964 number 2016 up 21.1% volatile
81 Sri Lanka 13,927 number 2019 — volatile
82 Ireland 12,609 number 2010 up 15.7% rising
83 Honduras 12,439 number 2018 up 136.4% volatile
84 Slovakia 12,101 number 2018 down 1.5% flat
85 Syria 12,000 number 2015 — volatile
86 Serbia 11,983 number 2019 down 18.1% falling
87 Lithuania 11,426 number 2018 down 23.5% rising
88 El Salvador 10,589 number 2018 up 23.7% rising
89 United Arab Emirates 10,413 number 2017 up 108.7% volatile
90 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10,122 number 2019 up 94.5% rising
91 Tanzania 10,026 number 2019 up 122.9% volatile
92 Albania 9,742 number 2019 down 0.4% volatile
93 Laos 8,761 number 2019 up 188.0% volatile
94 Angola 8,660 number 2015 up 573.4% volatile
95 Palestine 8,537 number 2019 up 56.2% rising
96 Oman 8,120 number 2016 up 190.8% volatile
97 Nepal 7,950 number 2013 up 72.9% volatile
98 Cameroon 7,568 number 2018 up 97.4% volatile
99 Zimbabwe 7,561 number 2015 up 85.3% rising
100 Yemen 7,356 number 2007 up 48.7% rising
101 Latvia 7,150 number 2018 down 2.7% rising
102 Burkina Faso 7,132 number 2019 up 183.6% volatile
103 Slovenia 6,906 number 2018 up 16.3% rising
104 Mongolia 6,724 number 2018 down 23.0% rising
105 Senegal 6,712 number 2019 up 41.3% volatile
106 Nicaragua 6,547 number 2002 up 187.9% volatile
107 Hong Kong 6,504 number 1994 up 4.5% rising
108 Guinea 6,307 number 2014 up 377.1% volatile
109 Moldova 5,938 number 2019 down 22.9% falling
110 Madagascar 5,805 number 2018 up 64.6% volatile
111 Uganda 5,724 number 2011 up 40.9% volatile
112 Niger 5,512 number 2019 up 315.7% volatile
113 Togo 5,307 number 2019 up 1,029.2% volatile
114 Congo 4,493 number 2017 up 284.0% volatile
115 Estonia 4,349 number 2018 down 31.6% falling
116 Guatemala 4,147 number 2003 — rising
117 North Macedonia 4,114 number 2017 up 48.3% rising
118 Burundi 3,456 number 2018 up 132.4% volatile
119 Namibia 3,369 number 2017 up 341.5% volatile
120 Cyprus 3,276 number 2018 up 40.1% volatile
121 Rwanda 3,255 number 2019 up 10.0% volatile
122 Botswana 3,105 number 2019 up 45.0% volatile
123 Benin 2,672 number 2018 down 22.2% volatile
124 Macao 2,453 number 2019 up 25.7% rising
125 Qatar 2,332 number 2019 up 69.8% volatile
126 Iceland 2,192 number 2012 up 11.4% rising
127 Kuwait 2,165 number 2004 up 14.7% rising
128 Liberia 2,028 number 2012 up 162.7% volatile
129 Jamaica 1,990 number 2002 up 93.6% rising
130 Bahrain 1,839 number 2019 up 0.3% volatile
131 Malta 1,735 number 2017 up 90.7% volatile
132 Trinidad and Tobago 1,720 number 2004 up 268.3% volatile
133 Grenada 1,621 number 2018 — volatile
134 Chad 1,585 number 2015 up 21.4% volatile
135 Cape Verde 1,461 number 2018 up 84.5% volatile
136 Luxembourg 1,331 number 2018 up 32.6% volatile
137 Sierra Leone 1,198 number 2002 up 99.7% volatile
138 Mauritius 1,100 number 2010 up 132.1% volatile
139 Lesotho 1,097 number 2018 up 71.9% volatile
140 Zambia 996 number 1987 up 38.9% volatile
141 Mali 963 number 2000 up 34.7% rising
142 Malawi 897 number 2011 up 52.3% rising
143 Brunei 885 number 2019 up 38.7% volatile
144 Somalia 817 number 1987 up 152.2% volatile
145 Barbados 786 number 2007 up 25.4% rising
146 Bhutan 766 number 2020 down 6.0% volatile
147 Belize 734 number 2019 up 102.8% volatile
148 Eritrea 726 number 2016 up 69.2% volatile
149 Eswatini 712 number 2015 up 64.8% volatile
150 Guyana 676 number 2012 up 121.6% rising
151 Haiti 654 number 1986 up 60.3% rising
152 Suriname 495 number 1990 up 32.7% rising
153 Saint Kitts and Nevis 459 number 2015 — volatile
154 Mauritania 448 number 2013 up 26.9% rising
155 Samoa 435 number 2018 — volatile
156 Central African Republic 384 number 2011 up 18.2% rising
157 Fiji 277 number 1991 up 11.2% rising
158 United States Virgin Islands 271 number 2007 up 1.9% rising
159 Guam 260 number 1989 — rising
160 Comoros 247 number 2014 up 97.6% rising
161 Djibouti 245 number 2011 up 512.5% volatile
162 Saint Lucia 224 number 2019 up 2.3% rising
163 Bahamas 208 number 1995 up 62.5% rising
164 Andorra 145 number 2019 up 28.3% rising
165 Aruba 139 number 2016 down 40.6% falling
166 Liechtenstein 112 number 2017 up 2.8% flat
167 American Samoa 105 number 2007 — volatile
168 Tonga 103 number 2000 — volatile
169 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 96 number 1990 up 134.1% rising
170 Micronesia (country) 90 number 2000 — falling
171 Seychelles 72 number 2019 up 12.5% rising
172 British Virgin Islands 64 number 2018 down 39.0% falling
173 New Caledonia 63 number 1985 up 173.9% rising
174 Bermuda 49 number 2018 down 44.3% falling
175 Cayman Islands 34 number 2008 up 78.9% rising
175 Dominica 34 number 1993 up 100.0% rising

Regions and income groups

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

Share, cite or embed this page

Cite this page

Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes by country. Statizoid, drawing on UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Retrieved 23 September 2026, from https://education.statizoid.com/stat/teachers-in-tertiary-education-programmes-both-sexes-number/

Embed or link this data

Paste this into a page to link back to these figures. The data itself is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data); please keep the attribution.

<a href="https://education.statizoid.com/stat/teachers-in-tertiary-education-programmes-both-sexes-number/">Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes by country</a> — Statizoid

About this data

Indicator
Teachers in tertiary education programmes, both sexes (number)
Unit
number
Source
UNESCO Institute for Statistics
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (World Bank Open Data)
Coverage
221 places, 5,942 data points, 1970–2020
Last refreshed

Total number of teachers in public and private tertiary education institutions (ISCED 5-8). 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.