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Teaching staff
Last update: Dec 2007
	Women's share of teachers
Country or area	Primary education			Secondary education			Tertiary education
	Year	%		Year	%		Year	%
Afghanistan	2005	34	b	...	...		2004	12
Albania	2004	76	b	2004	56	b	2004	41	b
Algeria	2005	50		2004	49	b	2005	34
Andorra	2005	74		2005	59		2005	47	b
Angola	...	...		1999	33	b	2002	20	b
Anguilla	2005	89		2005	62	b	2005	54
Antigua and Barbuda	2000	79		2000	71		2004	n/a
Argentina	2003	86	b	2003	66	b	2003	50	b
Armenia	2005	99		2005	81		2005	46
Aruba	2005	81		2005	52		2005	45
Austria	2005	90		2005	61		2004	29	b
Azerbaijan	2005	85		2005	65		2005	42
Bahamas	2005	88	b	2005	73		2005	n/a
Bahrain	2002	76	b	2002	54	b	2005	41	b
Bangladesh	2004	34		2004	18		2005	15
Barbados	2005	78		2005	57	b	2001	51	b
Belarus	2005	99		2005	80		2005	56
Belgium	2005	79		2005	57	b	2005	41
Belize	2005	72		2005	64	b	2005	49	b
Benin	2005	18		2004	12	b	2001	9	b
Bermuda	2005	88		2005	67		2002	55	b
Bhutan	2005	38		2005	31	b	2000	27	b
Bolivia	2004	61	b	2004	53	b	...	...
Botswana	2005	78		2005	47	b	2005	37
Brazil	2004	90		2004	80		2004	44
British Virgin Islands	2005	88		2005	67		2005	55	b
Brunei Darussalam	2005	71		2005	58	a	2005	39
Bulgaria	2005	93		2005	77		2005	45
Burkina Faso	2005	29		2004	11	b	2005	6
Burundi	2005	55		2004	21	b	2005	14	b
Cambodia	2005	41		2004	31	b	2005	16	b
Cameroon	2005	40	b	2005	26	b	2001	14	b
Canada	2000	68		2000	68		2002	43	b
Cape Verde	2005	66		2005	40		2005	41
Cayman Islands	2005	89		2005	52	b	2001	33	b
Central African Republic	...	...		...	...		2000	9
Chad	2005	12		2003	5	b	2005	3	b
Chile	2005	78		2005	63		...	...
China	2005	55	b	2005	45	b	2005	43	b
Colombia	2005	77		2005	52		2005	34
Comoros	2005	33	b	2005	13	b	2004	15	b
Congo	2005	45	b	2004	13	b	2002	5	b
Cook Islands	2000	86	b	...	...		2005	n/a
Costa Rica	2005	79		2003	54	b	...	...
Croatia	2003	90		2003	67		2003	37
Cuba	2005	78		2005	55		2005	59
Cyprus	2005	83	b	2005	60	b	2005	42	b
Czech Republic	2005	84		2005	67		2005	40
Côte d'Ivoire	2003	24	a	...	...		...	...
Democratic Republic of the Congo	2003	26	b	2003	9	b	1999	6
Denmark	2001	64		2001	48		...	...
Djibouti	2005	27	b	2002	23	b	2005	21
Dominica	2005	85		2005	58		2005	n/a
Dominican Republic	2005	76		2005	62		2004	41	b
Ecuador	2005	70	b	2005	49	b	...	...
Egypt	2005	55	b	2005	41	b	...	...
El Salvador	2005	70		2005	49		2005	34
Equatorial Guinea	2003	30		2000	4	b	2000	16
Eritrea	2005	40		2005	11		2004	14
Estonia	2001	86		2001	82		2005	49	b
Ethiopia	2005	45		2005	17		2005	10
Fiji	2005	57	b	2004	50	b	...	...
Finland	2005	76		2005	67	b	2005	46
France	2004	81		2004	59		2004	39
Gabon	2004	45	b	1999	16	b	1999	17
Gambia	2004	35		2004	14		2004	16
Georgia	2003	95		2003	82		2005	46
Germany	2005	84		2005	56		2005	34
Ghana	2005	31		2005	18	b	2005	13
Gibraltar	2001	74		2001	58		2005	n/a
Greece	2005	63		2005	56		2005	36
Grenada	2005	76	b	2005	59		2005	n/a
Guinea	2005	24		2005	5	b	2005	4
Guinea-Bissau	2001	20	b	2000	7	b	2001	19	b
Guyana	2005	86		2005	63	b	2005	44
Honduras	2005	75	b	2005	55	b	2004	38	b
Hong Kong (China), SAR	2005	78		...	...		...	...
Hungary	2005	96		2005	71	b	2005	39
Iceland	2005	79	b	2005	63	b	2005	45
India	2004	44	a	2004	34		2004	40
Indonesia	2005	61	b	2005	43	b	2005	39	b
Iran, Islamic Republic of	2005	61		2005	48		2005	19
Iraq	2005	72	b	2005	58	b	2005	35	b
Ireland	2005	84		...	...		2005	39
Israel	2005	86		2005	71	b	...	...
Italy	2005	96		2005	66		2005	34
Jamaica	2005	89	b	2005	68	b	2003	60	b
Japan	2005	65	b	2003	31	b	2005	17	b
Jordan	2003	64	b	2003	58	b	2005	21
Kazakhstan	2005	98		2005	85		2005	61
Kenya	2005	45	b	2005	38	b	...	...
Kiribati	2005	75		2005	47		2005	n/a
Kuwait	2005	86		2005	53		2005	27
Kyrgyzstan	2005	96		2005	72		2005	54
Lao People's Democratic Republic	2005	45		2005	42		2005	31
Latvia	2005	97		2005	83		2005	58
Lebanon	2005	85		2005	51		2005	37
Lesotho	2005	78		2005	56		2003	50	b
Liberia	2000	28		2000	26		2001	16	b
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya	...	...		...	...		2002	13	b
Liechtenstein	2004	74		2004	47	b	...	...
Lithuania	2005	98		2005	81		2005	53
Luxembourg	2005	71		2005	45		...	...
Macao, China	2005	89		2005	58		2005	32
Madagascar	2005	60		1999	44	b	2005	31
Malawi	...	...		2002	24		2004	32
Malaysia	2004	67		2004	64	b	2004	47	b
Maldives	2005	66		2003	35		2003	67
Mali	2005	26		2000	13	a	...	...
Malta	2005	86		2005	57		2005	23	b
Marshall Islands	2003	34	b	2003	39	b	2003	51	b
Mauritania	2005	31		2005	13		2005	4
Mauritius	2005	63		2005	55		1999	26	b
Mexico	2005	66		2005	47		...	...
Monaco	2004	80	b	2004	66	b	2005	n/a
Mongolia	2005	94		2005	72		2005	55
Montserrat	2005	100		2005	65		2005	n/a
Morocco	2005	46		2004	33	b	2005	24
Mozambique	2005	30		2005	18	b	2005	21
Myanmar	2005	81		2005	82		2001	70	b
Namibia	2005	67		2005	50		2003	27
Nauru	2004	95	b	2004	53	b	2005	n/a
Nepal	2005	30		2003	14		...	...
Netherlands	...	...		2005	45		2005	35
Netherlands Antilles	2003	86	b	2003	55	b	2002	44	b
New Zealand	2005	83		2005	61		2005	50
Nicaragua	2005	78		2005	57		2003	46	b
Niger	2005	37		2004	19		2005	6
Nigeria	2005	51		2005	36		2004	17
Niue	2005	100	b	2005	68		2005	n/a
Norway	2004	73	b	2004	58	b	2004	37	b
Oman	2005	64	b	2005	52	b	2005	29
Pakistan	2005	46		2004	51	a	2005	17	b
Palau	2000	79		2000	59		2002	46	b
Palestinian Autonomous Territories	2005	50		2005	51		2005	15	b
Panama	2005	76		2005	57		2005	47
Papua New Guinea	2003	39	b	2003	37	b	1999	20	b
Paraguay	2004	72	b	2004	62	b	...	...
Peru	2005	64		2005	44		...	...
Philippines	2005	87		2005	76		2005	56	b
Poland	2005	85		2005	69	b	2005	41
Portugal	2005	82		2005	69		2005	42
Qatar	2005	66		2005	56		2005	32
Republic of Korea	2005	74		2005	50		2005	29
Republic of Moldova	2005	97		2005	75		2005	54
Romania	2005	86		2005	66		2005	43
Russian Federation	2005	99	b	...	...		2005	54
Rwanda	2005	51	b	2005	20	b	2005	12	b
Saint Kitts and Nevis	2005	86		2005	60	b	2005	n/a
Saint Lucia	2005	86		2005	63		2005	48
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2005	73	b	2005	58	b	2005	n/a
Samoa	2004	73	b	2004	60	b	2001	43	b
San Marino	2000	91		...	...		...	...
Sao Tome and Principe	2005	55		2005	13	b	2005	n/a
Saudi Arabia	...	...		...	...		2005	33
Senegal	2005	25		2005	14	b	...	...
Serbia and Montenegro	2001	82		2001	61		2001	38
Seychelles	2005	85		2005	56		2005	n/a
Sierra Leone	2001	38		2001	27		2002	15	b
Singapore	2005	83		2005	65		...	...
Slovakia	2005	90		2005	73		2005	42
Slovenia	2005	97		2005	71		2005	33
Solomon Islands	1999	41		2000	33	b	2005	n/a
South Africa	2004	76	b	2004	52		2005	50
Spain	2005	69		2005	56		2005	39
Sri Lanka	2004	79	b	2004	63	b	...	...
Sudan	2005	66		2005	56		2000	23	b
Suriname	2005	92		2005	62		2002	48	b
Swaziland	2005	73	b	2005	49	b	2005	36
Sweden	2005	81		2005	58		2005	43
Switzerland	2005	78		...	...		2005	32
Syrian Arab Republic	2002	69		2002	51	b	...	...
Tajikistan	2005	63		2005	45		2005	32
Thailand	2003	58	b	2003	53	b	2003	47	b
The former Yugoslav Rep. of Macedonia	2005	70		2005	53		2005	44
Timor-Leste	2005	31		2005	25	b	2002	9	a
Togo	2005	12		2005	7	b	2000	10	b
Tokelau	2004	69	b	2004	44	b	2005	n/a
Tonga	2005	63	b	2002	52		2000	23	b
Trinidad and Tobago	2005	72	a	2005	62	b	2005	33	b
Tunisia	2005	52		2005	45		2005	40
Turkey	...	...		...	...		2005	38
Turks and Caicos Islands	2005	89	b	2005	62	b	2005	n/a
Tuvalu	2003	80	b	...	...		2005	n/a
Uganda	2005	39		2005	22	b	2004	19
Ukraine	2005	99		2005	79		...	...
United Arab Emirates	2005	84		2005	55		2001	27	b
United Kingdom	2005	82		2005	61		2005	40
United Republic of Tanzania	2005	48		...	...		2005	17
United States	2005	89		2005	63		2005	43
Uruguay	1999	92	b	1999	72		...	...
Uzbekistan	...	...		...	...		2004	38	b
Vanuatu	2005	54	b	2002	36	b	...	...
Venezuela	2005	81		2005	63		2000	38
Viet Nam	2005	78		2005	64		2005	40
Yemen	2000	20	b	2003	21	b	2005	16	b
Zambia	2005	48		2002	27		...	...
Zimbabwe	2003	51		2003	40		...	...

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Sources:

Calculated by the United Nations Statistics Division based on data published by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics in table 4: Teaching staff by ISCED level, available from UIS website, http://www.uis.unesco.org (accessed Oct 2007).

Footnotes:

n/a	Not applicable.
…	Not available.
a	National estimation.
b	UIS estimation.

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Technical notes:

Statistics on teachers (teaching staff) are compiled by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Institute for Statistics (UIS) from data provided by national Governments.

Teachers refer to 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. Excluded from this category are 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.

Definitions of primary, secondary and tertiary education are elaborated in the 1997 International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED 97). A concise definition of each is given under tables 4b, 4c and 4d.

The percentage of female teachers at each level of education refers to the number of female teachers at each level of education expressed as a percentage of the total number of teachers (male and female) at the same level in a given school-year. This indicator shows the gender composition of the teaching force. It helps also in assessing the need for opportunities and/or incentives to encourage women and men to participate in teaching activities at a given level of education. A percentage of female teachers approaching 50% indicates gender parity in the composition of the teaching force at a given level of education. A value greater than 50% reveals a concentration of women in teaching at a specified level.

(Source: United Nations Statistics Division)