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LanewayRat t1_j2b55sq wrote

What do you mean “more”? More than what? More than the next country on the scale?

And how does the population relate? What is the point of presenting these two things on the same graph when “teachers per thousand inhabitants” is already taking into account population?

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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j2b6a2x wrote

It's a RELATIVE metric (X things each Y population). In education science is quite relevant the number of teachers by pupil.

Certainly, it would find quite more convenient to calculate this relative metric using "number of children with primary school age" instead of "total inhabitants". But usually these both metrics are quite related. But i know that it's not the same. For example, for countries with more old people it probably the % of children is lower than countries with a lower life expectancy.

Mmmm... maybe i could apply a "fix factor" using the life expectancy for each country (i collected it for previous graphs i done this month).

So, consider this a "first version" 😁

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LanewayRat t1_j2b8ts6 wrote

I’m getting the idea that English is not your first language. So your title should say, “Top 20 countries with the highest number of primary school teachers per thousand inhabitants”.

Yes, there doesn’t seem to be a relationship between population and your measure. If you are actually interested in the teacher:student ratio in a classroom this doesn’t even get you close.

Notice that the UESCO data is focussed on developing nations. Many advanced nations are missing from the data. This makes the “top 20” idea flawed because it’s not top 20 in the world just top 20 in the patchy data.

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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j2bae5b wrote

I take a look just a couple minutes ago to the same UNESCO database and i've found there exist numbers of students enrolled by school level and country. So i will redo now the graph (let me one hour work 😅).

In that database i've found "ALMOST ALL" countries except a few pacific and caribbean "island-states" and the big (and strange) absence are Canada and Australia.

And yes, you're right, english is not my first language. I take note of your suggested title. Thanks a lot!

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UsandoFXOS OP t1_j2b74lr wrote

Also, it would be interesting to take in account how many years does primary school last. Usually there is 1-2 years of difference between countries. Sometimes begin a year before and sometimes a year later, and the same happens to finish it.

So, i realize that it's not a so significant metric.

But, man, take a look to the unesco database where i take the data from... there are countries (like Canada!!) without data about primary school teacheres 😮 so... starting from there, you can't expect to get very accurate images about these "international comparatives".

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