Pupil-teacher ratio, lower secondary - Country Ranking - Africa

Definition: Lower secondary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in lower secondary school.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

See also: Thematic map, Time series comparison

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Ethiopia 43.91 2011
2 Mozambique 43.60 2013
3 Eritrea 40.34 2018
4 Mauritania 37.60 2018
5 Guinea 37.05 2011
6 Burundi 35.69 2018
7 Chad 35.43 2016
8 Niger 34.74 2017
9 Côte d'Ivoire 34.33 1999
10 Togo 33.93 2011
11 Nigeria 31.13 2010
12 Kenya 30.65 2015
13 Rwanda 30.32 2018
14 Djibouti 29.96 2019
15 Mali 29.73 2018
16 Angola 28.66 2016
17 Senegal 28.35 2018
18 Namibia 25.92 2017
19 Cameroon 24.16 2016
20 Burkina Faso 23.12 2018
21 Morocco 22.64 2018
22 Zambia 21.13 2014
23 Madagascar 19.74 2018
24 Congo 19.51 2012
25 The Gambia 19.34 2018
26 Eswatini 19.32 2003
27 São Tomé and Principe 19.20 2017
28 Somalia 17.89 2007
29 Algeria 17.80 1997
30 Guinea-Bissau 17.13 2000
31 Egypt 16.77 2018
32 Equatorial Guinea 16.34 2015
33 Cabo Verde 15.69 2018
34 Sierra Leone 15.58 2018
35 Liberia 14.61 2017
36 Seychelles 14.01 1999
37 Tunisia 13.63 2018
38 Ghana 13.10 2019
39 South Africa 11.16 2010
40 Benin 11.02 2014
41 Comoros 9.16 2018

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Development Relevance: The pupil-teacher ratio is often used to compare the quality of schooling across countries, but it is often weakly related to student learning and quality of education.

Limitations and Exceptions: The comparability of pupil-teacher ratios across countries is affected by the definition of teachers and by differences in class size by grade and in the number of hours taught, as well as the different practices countries employ such as part-time teachers, school shifts, and multi-grade classes. Moreover, the underlying enrollment levels are subject to a variety of reporting errors.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Pupil-teacher ratio is calculated by dividing the number of students at the specified level of education by the number of teachers at the same level of education. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual