| # | Flag | Country | Primary education, teachersPrimary education, teachers | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | China | 6,045,682 | 2017 | |
| 2 | India | 4,373,417 | 2017 | |
| 3 | Indonesia | 1,827,213 | 2017 | |
| 4 | United States | 1,769,451 | 2017 | |
| 5 | Brazil | 793,276 | 2016 | |
| 6 | Nigeria | 574,078 | 2010 | |
| 7 | Bangladesh | 574,001 | 2017 | |
| 8 | Mexico | 534,127 | 2017 | |
| 9 | Egypt | 511,478 | 2017 | |
| 10 | Philippines | 493,084 | 2016 | |
| 11 | Pakistan | 484,267 | 2017 | |
| 12 | Japan | 414,683 | 2016 | |
| 13 | Democratic Republic Of Congo | 414,580 | 2015 | |
| 14 | Vietnam | 397,098 | 2017 | |
| 15 | Saudi Arabia | 319,714 | 2016 | |
| 16 | United Kingdom | 313,648 | 2016 | |
| 17 | Thailand | 305,329 | 2017 | |
| 18 | Russia | 300,639 | 2016 | |
| 19 | Turkey | 295,252 | 2015 | |
| 20 | Argentina | 288,776 | 2008 | |
| 21 | Iraq | 286,890 | 2007 | |
| 22 | Iran | 286,476 | 2017 | |
| 23 | Kenya | 266,511 | 2015 | |
| 24 | Malaysia | 264,648 | 2017 | |
| 25 | Ethiopia | 259,636 | 2011 | |
| 26 | Italy | 254,572 | 2016 | |
| 27 | South Africa | 249,103 | 2015 | |
| 28 | Germany | 238,361 | 2016 | |
| 29 | Myanmar | 233,815 | 2017 | |
| 30 | Spain | 233,065 | 2016 | |
| 31 | Poland | 229,490 | 2016 | |
| 32 | France | 229,471 | 2013 | |
| 33 | Uganda | 207,238 | 2017 | |
| 34 | Peru | 206,638 | 2018 | |
| 35 | Nepal | 197,797 | 2017 | |
| 36 | Tanzania | 197,563 | 2017 | |
| 37 | Colombia | 184,384 | 2017 | |
| 38 | Algeria | 176,809 | 2017 | |
| 39 | South Korea | 164,354 | 2016 | |
| 40 | Ghana | 161,538 | 2018 | |
| 41 | Morocco | 150,198 | 2017 | |
| 42 | Yemen | 144,824 | 2016 | |
| 43 | Afghanistan | 144,485 | 2017 | |
| 44 | Canada | 141,045 | 2000 | |
| 45 | Ukraine | 126,535 | 2017 | |
| 46 | Madagascar | 120,351 | 2017 | |
| 47 | Mozambique | 117,065 | 2017 | |
| 48 | Guatemala | 116,396 | 2017 | |
| 49 | Syria | 114,676 | 2002 | |
| 50 | Uzbekistan | 113,072 | 2017 | |
| 51 | Venezuela | 112,157 | 1987 | |
| 52 | Australia | 105,469 | 1999 | |
| 53 | Netherlands | 101,643 | 2016 | |
| 54 | Cameroon | 97,984 | 2017 | |
| 55 | Angola | 95,827 | 2016 | |
| 56 | Ivory Coast | 88,910 | 2017 | |
| 57 | Chile | 85,129 | 2017 | |
| 58 | Cuba | 83,125 | 2017 | |
| 59 | Zambia | 78,099 | 2017 | |
| 60 | Ecuador | 77,749 | 2016 | |
| 61 | Niger | 76,185 | 2017 | |
| 62 | Sri Lanka | 76,173 | 2017 | |
| 63 | Burkina Faso | 74,747 | 2017 | |
| 64 | North Korea | 74,274 | 2018 | |
| 65 | Israel | 74,272 | 2016 | |
| 66 | Zimbabwe | 73,148 | 2013 | |
| 67 | Bolivia | 72,972 | 2017 | |
| 68 | Kazakhstan | 71,641 | 2018 | |
| 69 | Belgium | 70,530 | 2016 | |
| 70 | Tunisia | 70,399 | 2016 | |
| 71 | Greece | 69,716 | 2016 | |
| 72 | Sweden | 66,918 | 2016 | |
| 73 | Mali | 66,418 | 2017 | |
| 74 | Dominican Republic | 66,255 | 2017 | |
| 75 | Senegal | 64,874 | 2017 | |
| 76 | Malawi | 60,488 | 2015 | |
| 77 | Jordan | 52,598 | 2017 | |
| 78 | Benin | 51,677 | 2017 | |
| 79 | Portugal | 50,982 | 2017 | |
| 80 | Cambodia | 50,684 | 2017 | |
| 81 | Switzerland | 49,167 | 2016 | |
| 82 | Norway | 48,644 | 2016 | |
| 83 | Romania | 48,009 | 2017 | |
| 84 | Haiti | 44,472 | 1998 | |
| 85 | Honduras | 43,908 | 2017 | |
| 86 | Rwanda | 43,906 | 2017 | |
| 87 | Denmark | 43,538 | 2014 | |
| 88 | Burundi | 42,854 | 2017 | |
| 89 | Libya | 42,696 | 1983 | |
| 90 | Lebanon | 40,256 | 2017 | |
| 91 | Costa Rica | 39,717 | 2016 | |
| 92 | Azerbaijan | 39,293 | 2017 | |
| 93 | Chad | 38,905 | 2016 | |
| 94 | Togo | 37,985 | 2017 | |
| 95 | Oman | 37,916 | 2017 | |
| 96 | Sierra Leone | 37,703 | 2017 | |
| 97 | Guinea | 37,680 | 2016 | |
| 98 | Hungary | 36,632 | 2016 | |
| 99 | Laos | 36,204 | 2017 | |
| 100 | Papua New Guinea | 35,896 | 2016 | |
| 101 | Paraguay | 34,694 | 2012 | |
| 102 | Tajikistan | 34,575 | 2017 | |
| 103 | Austria | 33,438 | 2017 | |
| 104 | Georgia | 33,398 | 2017 | |
| 105 | Republic of Ireland | 32,267 | 2012 | |
| 106 | Kuwait | 31,081 | 2017 | |
| 107 | Nicaragua | 30,571 | 2010 | |
| 108 | Uruguay | 27,832 | 2016 | |
| 109 | South Sudan | 27,248 | 2015 | |
| 110 | Finland | 26,996 | 2016 | |
| 111 | Czech Republic | 25,979 | 2013 | |
| 112 | New Zealand | 25,761 | 2017 | |
| 113 | Liberia | 25,657 | 2016 | |
| 114 | Hong Kong | 25,599 | 2017 | |
| 115 | El Salvador | 23,987 | 2017 | |
| 116 | Belarus | 22,497 | 2017 | |
| 117 | Kyrgyzstan | 20,110 | 2017 | |
| 118 | United Arab Emirates | 19,073 | 2016 | |
| 119 | Panama | 19,072 | 2016 | |
| 120 | Serbia | 18,829 | 2017 | |
| 121 | Puerto Rico | 16,810 | 2016 | |
| 122 | Mauritania | 16,536 | 2016 | |
| 123 | Republic of the Congo | 16,527 | 2012 | |
| 124 | Singapore | 15,734 | 2016 | |
| 125 | Botswana | 15,035 | 2013 | |
| 126 | Bulgaria | 14,876 | 2016 | |
| 127 | Slovakia | 14,182 | 2015 | |
| 128 | Namibia | 13,652 | 2010 | |
| 129 | Gabon | 12,961 | 2011 | |
| 130 | Qatar | 12,435 | 2017 | |
| 131 | Croatia | 12,033 | 2016 | |
| 132 | Jamaica | 11,172 | 2017 | |
| 133 | Lesotho | 11,167 | 2017 | |
| 134 | Latvia | 10,619 | 2016 | |
| 135 | Central African Republic | 9,756 | 2016 | |
| 136 | Albania | 9,743 | 2017 | |
| 137 | Gambia | 9,694 | 2018 | |
| 138 | Mongolia | 9,564 | 2017 | |
| 139 | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 9,389 | 2017 | |
| 140 | Bahrain | 9,332 | 2017 | |
| 141 | Eritrea | 8,842 | 2017 | |
| 142 | Swaziland | 8,764 | 2016 | |
| 143 | Slovenia | 8,663 | 2016 | |
| 144 | Lithuania | 8,425 | 2017 | |
| 145 | Moldova | 7,880 | 2017 | |
| 146 | East Timor | 7,714 | 2011 | |
| 147 | Republic of Macedonia | 7,554 | 2015 | |
| 148 | Trinidad and Tobago | 7,447 | 2009 | |
| 149 | Estonia | 7,351 | 2016 | |
| 150 | Armenia | 6,606 | 2007 | |
| 151 | Comoros | 6,429 | 2017 | |
| 152 | Fiji | 5,578 | 2016 | |
| 153 | Guinea-Bissau | 5,371 | 2010 | |
| 154 | Suriname | 5,309 | 2017 | |
| 155 | Mauritius | 5,184 | 2017 | |
| 156 | Cyprus | 4,597 | 2016 | |
| 157 | Maldives | 4,460 | 2017 | |
| 158 | Luxembourg | 4,411 | 2016 | |
| 159 | Solomon Islands | 4,205 | 2017 | |
| 160 | Guyana | 4,079 | 2012 | |
| 161 | Equatorial Guinea | 4,021 | 2015 | |
| 162 | Brunei | 3,890 | 2017 | |
| 163 | Cape Verde | 3,016 | 2017 | |
| 164 | Iceland | 2,999 | 2015 | |
| 165 | Bhutan | 2,725 | 2017 | |
| 166 | Belize | 2,630 | 2017 | |
| 167 | Djibouti | 2,144 | 2018 | |
| 168 | Macao | 2,105 | 2017 | |
| 169 | French Polynesia | 2,052 | 1996 | |
| 170 | Malta | 1,932 | 2016 | |
| 171 | Vanuatu | 1,729 | 2015 | |
| 172 | The Bahamas | 1,611 | 2016 | |
| 173 | Barbados | 1,446 | 2017 | |
| 174 | São Tomé and Príncipe | 1,193 | 2017 | |
| 175 | New Caledonia | 1,096 | 1991 | |
| 176 | Saint Lucia | 1,054 | 2017 | |
| 177 | Virgin Islands (US) | 1,025 | 1993 | |
| 178 | Samoa | 1,021 | 2010 | |
| 179 | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 905 | 2017 | |
| 180 | Grenada | 832 | 2017 | |
| 181 | Antigua and Barbuda | 825 | 2017 | |
| 182 | Tonga | 785 | 2015 | |
| 183 | Guam | 775 | 1989 | |
| 184 | Federated States of Micronesia | 698 | 2015 | |
| 185 | Kiribati | 655 | 2017 | |
| 186 | Seychelles | 644 | 2017 | |
| 187 | Aruba | 601 | 2012 | |
| 188 | Dominica | 560 | 2016 | |
| 189 | American Samoa | 524 | 1992 | |
| 190 | Marshall Islands | 517 | 2002 | |
| 191 | Bermuda | 420 | 2016 | |
| 192 | Andorra | 406 | 2017 | |
| 193 | Saint Kitts And Nevis | 393 | 2016 | |
| 194 | Sint Maarten | 318 | 2012 | |
| 195 | Virgin Islands (British) | 287 | 2017 | |
| 196 | Turks And Caicos Islands | 285 | 2014 | |
| 197 | Cayman Islands | 273 | 2018 | |
| 198 | Liechtenstein | 260 | 2016 | |
| 199 | San Marino | 251 | 2012 | |
| 200 | Monaco | 193 | 2017 | |
| 201 | Palau | 124 | 2000 | |
| 202 | Tuvalu | 77 | 2016 | |
| 203 | Nauru | 45 | 2016 |