Ethiopia - Pupil-teacher ratio, tertiary

Pupil-teacher ratio, tertiary in Ethiopia was 31.22 as of 2014. Its highest value over the past 43 years was 39.45 in 2005, while its lowest value was 7.67 in 1973.

Definition: Tertiary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in tertiary school.

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

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Year Value
1971 8.80
1972 8.76
1973 7.67
1974 14.92
1978 22.74
1979 20.19
1980 13.78
1981 13.67
1982 13.18
1983 12.70
1984 11.09
1986 20.81
1987 22.23
1988 20.97
1989 18.37
1990 19.50
1991 20.16
1994 13.09
1995 16.87
1999 23.48
2000 27.13
2001 27.05
2002 30.74
2003 35.03
2004 35.83
2005 39.45
2009 34.06
2014 31.22

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

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs