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Teacher attrition rate from general secondary education, both sexes

Percentage of teachers at a given level of education leaving the profession in a given school year. The number of leavers is estimated by subtracting the number of teachers in year t from those in year t-1 and adding the number of new entrants to the teaching workforce in year t. The attrition rate is the number of leavers expressed as a percentage of the total number of teachers in year t-1. A high value indicates high levels of teacher turnover which can be disruptive for the learning of students. Assessing and monitoring teacher attrition is essential to ensuring a sufficient supply of qualified and well-trained teachers as well as to their effective deployment, support and management. Where teachers teach for 30-40 years, the attrition rate will be well below 5%. Attrition rates above 10% indicate that the average teaching career lasts only 10 years. For more information, consult the UNESCO Institute of Statistics website: http://www.uis.unesco.org/Education/

Coverage
42 of 238 countries
Latest data
2019
Series
42
Unit
percent
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Retrieved
2026-11-07
Indicator
teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both
Interva ID
worldbank-teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both

Recency

stale

data to 2019; catalog to 2025

Provenance

2 steps

as the publisher declares it

Versions

1

catalog snapshots

Citation

BibTeX + CSL

versioned permalink

Quality profile

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Recency

0%

Latest observation is 2019; the catalog broadly reports to 2025, so this data is 6 year(s) behind (stale).

Method: Compares the dataset's latest non-projected period with the year most datasets in the catalog end in. Up to 2 years behind is current — annual data is routinely published a year or two late — and more than 5 is stale. Measured from the data, not from when Interva last crawled it.

Temporal completeness

100%

10 of 42 series skip at least one year inside their own span; the median series reports 100% of its years.

Method: Per series, years present divided by years from its first to its last observation; the median across series is reported. Annual periods are assumed, which holds for every series in the catalog today.

Geographic coverage

Measured

Covers 42 of the 238 countries in the catalog.

Method: Counts distinct geographies with at least one observation. Not scored: a regional dataset covering its region completely is not deficient for omitting the rest of the world.

History depth

Measured

The median series has 2 observations; the earliest begins in 2012.

Method: Counts non-projected observations per series. Not scored: a long history is useful for trend work and irrelevant for a cross-section.

Revisions

Measured

No observation has been restated in any vintage Interva has recorded.

Method: Counts values the publisher changed between Interva's publishes. Not scored: revising estimates is ordinary and often a sign of care, and the count is here so a reader citing a figure knows whether it moves.

Schema conformity

Not assessed

No declared schema or validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Validity

Not assessed

No field-level validation rules are attached to this dataset yet.

Consistency

Not assessed

Cross-series consistency rules are not defined yet. The obvious first one — whether two publishers measuring one concept agree within a stated tolerance — is a candidate.

2 scored from the data, 3 described without a score, 3 not assessed. Pipeline integrity: all 5 checks pass. Assessed 2026-11-07.

By country

Teacher attrition rate from general secondary education, both sexes for each of the 42 countries it covers, with the full history.

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Albania20194.25percent
Algeria20192.63percent
Andorra201910.40percent
Armenia201918.30percent
Bahrain20197.17percent
Brunei Darussalam20192.93percent
Burkina Faso20193.02percent
China20193.09percent
Costa Rica20197.21percent
Cuba20195.79percent

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    UNESCO Institute for Statistics

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    Education Statistics

    declared by worldbank in source

Versions

A vintage is a dated publish of the catalog. The current entry is a catalog snapshot; checksums are not recorded yet and are shown as such.

  • CurrentCurrent catalog snapshotchecksum not recorded

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Citation

Version: catalog snapshot 2026-11-07. The record labels this as a catalog snapshot because immutable dataset releases are not stored yet.

World Bank (2026). Teacher attrition rate from general secondary education, both sexes. Interva. https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both (accessed 2026-11-07). catalog snapshot 2026-11-07.

BibTeX
@misc{interva-worldbank-teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both,
  title        = {Teacher attrition rate from general secondary education, both sexes},
  author       = {World Bank},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://interva.co/dataset/worldbank-teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both}},
  note         = {Interva dataset worldbank-teacher-attrition-rate-from-general-secondary-education-both; catalog snapshot 2026-11-07},
  urldate      = {2026-11-07}
}

DOI: not assigned (not assigned). The permalink is versioned by catalog snapshot; a stable dataset DOI is a later step.

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