Data · Education & health
Pupil-teacher ratio, primary: Vietnam, 1976–2018
- Latest (2018)
- 20.3 pupils per teacher
- Source
- World Bank
- Code
- SE.PRM.ENRL.TC.ZS
- Frequency
- Yearly
Definition
Primary school pupil-teacher ratio is the average number of pupils per teacher in primary school.
What the series shows
The series runs from 1976 to 2018 (40 years of data). It moved from 36.1 to 20.3 pupils per teacher, a change of -43.9%. The highest value was 38.6 in 1981 and the lowest 18.9 in 2013. The comparison below sets Vietnam against 9 neighbouring economies on the latest available year.
Using it in a thesis
Indicators like this one are typical control or explanatory variables in macro and finance theses: merge the CSV with your other series on the year column, check for missing years before running a regression, and log-transform level variables that grow over time. If you use the series in a panel with other countries, take every country from the same source and vintage so the definitions match. Cite the original publisher, not this site, as shown below.
Values by year
| Year | Value (pupils per teacher) |
|---|---|
| 2018 | 20.3 |
| 2017 | 19.6 |
| 2016 | 19.6 |
| 2015 | 19.2 |
| 2014 | 19.2 |
| 2013 | 18.9 |
| 2012 | 19.4 |
| 2011 | 19.6 |
| 2010 | 19.9 |
| 2009 | 19.5 |
| 2008 | 19.9 |
| 2007 | 20.4 |
| 2006 | 20.7 |
| 2005 | 21.6 |
| 2004 | 23.0 |
| 2003 | 24.7 |
| 2002 | 26.3 |
| 2001 | 28.0 |
| 2000 | 29.5 |
| 1999 | 30.4 |
| 1998 | 32.2 |
| 1997 | 33.5 |
| 1996 | 34.2 |
| 1995 | 34.9 |
| 1994 | 35.2 |
| 1993 | 35.6 |
| 1992 | 35.1 |
| 1991 | 35.1 |
| 1990 | 34.2 |
| 1989 | 34.5 |
| 1988 | 35.0 |
| 1987 | 35.0 |
| 1986 | 34.5 |
| 1985 | 35.3 |
| 1981 | 38.6 |
| 1980 | 36.4 |
| 1979 | 34.6 |
| 1978 | 34.1 |
| 1977 | 35.6 |
| 1976 | 36.1 |
Comparison with other countries
| Country | Latest year | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Vietnam | 2018 | 20.3 |
| Thailand | 2018 | 16.6 |
| Indonesia | 2018 | 17.0 |
| Malaysia | 2017 | 11.7 |
| Philippines | 2017 | 29.1 |
| Singapore | 2017 | 14.7 |
| Cambodia | 2018 | 41.7 |
| Laos | 2018 | 22.3 |
| Myanmar | 2018 | 24.4 |
| China | 2018 | 16.4 |
How to cite (APA 7)
World Bank. (2026). Pupil-teacher ratio, primary, Vietnam [Data set]. World Development Indicators. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SE.PRM.ENRL.TC.ZS?locations=VN
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Retrieved 2026-11-02. The CSV has one row per period
with the variable name se_prm_enrl_tc_zs, ready for Stata, R or SPSS.