Just 55.0% of secondary school teachers in Bangladesh were trained in 2024, down from 65.0% in 2023. The share had risen from 53.6% in 2011 and 66.5% in 2017, and sat between 61.7% and 65.0% from 2020 to 2023.
55.0%
Share of secondary teachers who are trained, 2024.
Neighbouring countries report much higher shares in their latest year: 97.4% in Nepal (2025), 92.2% in India (2025), 80.4% in Sri Lanka (2023) and 68.9% in Pakistan (2024). Bangladesh is the lowest of the five.
The indicator counts teachers with the minimum organised teacher training a country requires, so definitions can differ between countries and the comparison is indicative rather than exact. The series also has gaps: Bangladesh has no values for 2018 and 2019, so the 2023 to 2024 fall cannot be traced to a single cause from these data. It may reflect real changes in the teaching workforce or a change in how teachers are counted, and the source does not say which.
Teacher quality is one of the inputs to learning. Our learning-poverty insight puts the share of 10-year-olds who cannot read a simple text at 51.2% in 2022, and secondary teachers inherit that gap. A trained share of 55% points to teacher training as an open task, though these data do not link teacher training to learning outcomes.
Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics, via World Bank WDI (SE.SEC.TCAQ.ZS).