Entitled “Teachers and Educational Quality: Monitoring Global Needs for 2015”, the report provides global and regional assessments on the state of teachers and education quality. By highlighting trends in teacher quantity and quality, it explores the policy implications of bridging the gap between the two, especially in developing countries. It also compares the strengths and shortcomings of recruitment and deployment policies as well as working conditions around the world.

Countries across the world will need to recruit more than 18 million teachers over the next decade. The greatest challenge lies in sub-Saharan Africa, which will need to expand its teaching force by 68% over this period. By 2015, countries like Chad will need almost four times as many primary teachers, from 16,000 to 61,000, while Ethiopia must double its stock to achieve universal primary education.

Download the following resources:

• Full report (6.5 MB) or chapter 1, chapter 2 and chapter 3 in English
• Full report in French
• Press release
• Regional profiles (Arab States, East Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, South and West Asia and sub-Saharan Africa)
• Statistical tables in EXCEL
• Questionnaires used to collect data for this report