[OC] Top 20 countries with more primary school teachers per thousand inhabitants (2021)Submitted by UsandoFXOS t3_zzeb4t in dataisbeautiful
UsandoFXOS OP t1_j2b6a2x wrote
Reply to comment by LanewayRat in [OC] Top 20 countries with more primary school teachers per thousand inhabitants (2021) by UsandoFXOS
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" đ
LanewayRat t1_j2b8ts6 wrote
Iâm getting the idea that English is not your first language. So your title should say, âTop 20 countries with the highest number of primary school teachers per thousand inhabitantsâ.
Yes, there doesnât seem to be a relationship between population and your measure. If you are actually interested in the teacher:student ratio in a classroom this doesnât 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 âtop 20â idea flawed because itâs not top 20 in the world just top 20 in the patchy data.
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 đ ).
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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