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Primary education, teachers (% female)

Female teachers as a percentage of total primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

📅 2025📏 % female14 entries
  1. 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan98.9%
  2. 🇺🇿Uzbekistan93.2%
  3. 🇹🇻Tuvalu92.5%
  4. 🇰🇿Kazakhstan91.4%
  5. 🇵🇱Poland87.1%
  6. 🇳🇷Nauru81.8%
  7. 🇮🇩Indonesia72.4%
  8. 🇩🇿Algeria70.1%
  9. 🇹🇭Thailand68.3%
  10. 🇮🇳India58.6%
  11. 🇧🇮Burundi55.2%
  12. 🇱🇦Laos54.9%
Stems start at zero, so the length of each stem is the entry’s value.
1
🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
98.9%
2
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
93.2%
3
🇹🇻Tuvalu
92.5%
4
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
91.4%
5
🇵🇱Poland
87.1%
6
🇳🇷Nauru
81.8%
7
🇮🇩Indonesia
72.4%
8
🇩🇿Algeria
70.1%
9
🇹🇭Thailand
68.3%
10
🇮🇳India
58.6%
11
🇧🇮Burundi
55.2%
12
🇱🇦Laos
54.9%
13
🇳🇵Nepal
54.7%
14
🇬🇲Gambia
46.5%

Highlights

As of 2025, Kyrgyzstan ranks first with 98.9%, followed by Uzbekistan (93.2%) and Tuvalu (92.5%).

Across 14 countries and territories, values run from 98.9% (Kyrgyzstan) to 46.5% (Gambia), with a median of 71.2%.

By region, the top 10 is made up of 6 from Asia, 2 from Oceania, 1 from Africa and 1 from Europe.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary education, teachers (% female), 2025. Unit: % female.

Source: World Bank Open Data — Primary education, teachers (% female) · CC BY 4.0 · fetched Oct 17, 2026