In charts: India’s teaching workforce increases, but there’s a stark gender imbalance

India’s teaching workforce crossed 10 million in 2024-’25, latest publicly available data shows. Government schools continue to employ the largest share, even as private unaided schools are increasing their teacher strength.

Overall, 54% teachers are female and 46% are male, according to the latest Unified District Information System for Education, or UDISE+, data, but at higher levels of schooling, men outnumber women.

Data also show that the number of non-teaching staff fell by 22% to 720,000 in 2024-’25. This means that in 2024-’25, there was only one non-teaching staff member for every 14 teachers.

The average number of teachers per school increased from six in 2022-’23 to seven in 2024-’25. The number of schools with a single teacher declined 12% to 104,125, while teachers working in schools with zero enrolments fell 23% to 20,817 during the same period.

In August 2025, IndiaSpend reported that as the number of teachers in government schools is rising, reading and arithmetic outcomes among students have also improved.

In six charts, we track how India’s teachers are spread across India and how their profiles are shifting.

Where are most teachers?

India’s teaching workforce grew from 9.48 million in 2022-’23 to 10.12 million in 2024-’25, driven mainly by upper primary and higher secondary schools. By 2024-’25, the higher secondary...

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