What is the pupil teacher ratio in Ghana?

In public primary schools it was 29.2 pupils per teacher in 2018/19, the latest official figure we hold. It was 31 in 2009/10. The World Bank gives 27.0 for 2019, from a different source.

What percentage of teachers in Ghana are trained?

In 2018/19, 87.6 percent of public primary teachers were professionally trained. The share was 94.2 percent in junior high and 85.3 percent in kindergarten.

How many teachers are in Ghana?

We do not hold a count of teachers, so we do not give one. We hold shares of trained teachers and pupils per teacher.

Is there a shortage of teachers in Ghana?

The data we hold do not answer that. They give the trained share and pupils per teacher up to 2018/19, and they do not show how many teachers are needed.

Teachers in Ghana: more of them trained, pupils per teacher barely changed

The trained share of public primary teachers rose from 58 to 87.6 percent between 2009/10 and 2018/19, while pupils per teacher stayed near 29.2. The latest official ratio is about 7 years old.

Share of public school teachers who are trained, 2009/10 to 2018/19

Kindergarten: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained

85.3%

2009/10: 32%
2018/19: 85.3%

Primary: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained

87.6%

2009/10: 58%
2018/19: 87.6%

Junior high: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained

94.2%

2009/10: 73%
2018/19: 94.2%

Ministry of Education ESPR 2015, 2018 and 2019. Public schools only.

The figures

	Kindergarten: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained	Primary: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained	Junior high: share of public school teachers who are professionally trained
2009/10	32	58	73
2010/11	39	63	78
2011/12	45	66	83
2012/13	52	69	84
2013/14	55	70	84
2014/15	61.7	75	87.8
2015/16	66	78	90
2016/17	65.1	76	88.1
2017/18	75.2	83.8	91.5
2018/19	85.3	87.6	94.2

Public primary pupils per teacher, 2009/10 to 2018/19

Ministry of Education ESPR 2015, 2018 and 2019. Public primary schools only.

The figures

	Public primary: pupils per teacher
2009/10	31
2010/11	34
2011/12	34
2012/13	33
2013/14	32
2014/15	34
2015/16	34
2016/17	30
2017/18	29
2018/19	29.2

What the data show

The trained share of public school teachers rose between 2009/10 and 2018/19. In primary it went from 58 to 87.6 percent. In junior high it went from 73 to 94.2. In kindergarten it went from 32 to 85.3. The rises were between 21.2 and 53.3 points.
Public primary schools had 31 pupils per teacher in 2009/10, 34 in 2014/15 and 29.2 in 2018/19. The ratio barely moved.
The World Bank gives 27.0 pupils per primary teacher for 2019. It comes from a different source from the Ministry figures above, so the two do not match, and we show them apart.
Do not read later figures as a continuation. The 2026 plan baseline and the UNICEF table conflict with each other, and the rows for the new regions look copied. We stop at 2018/19.
The latest official ratio we hold is about 7 years old.

What the data cannot say. We cannot say what happened to teacher training or class sizes after 2018/19. The 2026 plan baseline and the UNICEF table conflict, and the new-region rows look copied. We cannot say how many teachers Ghana has. Our dataset holds shares and ratios, not teacher counts. We cannot say whether there is a shortage of teachers. A pupils-per-teacher ratio does not show that. We cannot give regional pupil-teacher ratios. The sources we hold disagree widely for the same region. The ratio is pupils per teacher. It is not the number of pupils in a classroom.

Questions people ask

What is the pupil teacher ratio in Ghana?: In public primary schools it was 29.2 pupils per teacher in 2018/19, the latest official figure we hold. It was 31 in 2009/10. The World Bank gives 27.0 for 2019, from a different source.
What percentage of teachers in Ghana are trained?: In 2018/19, 87.6 percent of public primary teachers were professionally trained. The share was 94.2 percent in junior high and 85.3 percent in kindergarten.
How many teachers are in Ghana?: We do not hold a count of teachers, so we do not give one. We hold shares of trained teachers and pupils per teacher.
Is there a shortage of teachers in Ghana?: The data we hold do not answer that. They give the trained share and pupils per teacher up to 2018/19, and they do not show how many teachers are needed.