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 wor

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