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Education in Timor-Leste

DATAEducation profile

Education profile 路 Reference periods shown

Timor-Leste's Ministry of Education currently publishes 2025 EMIS datasets for students, gross enrolment rates, school counts and teachers, with historical series extending back to 2011. Timor-Leste is treated as a current-data-catalogue page because the Ministry exposes 2025 EMIS datasets but the retrieved publication pages do not expose the underlying totals in readable web text.

Timor-Leste education snapshot

Timor-Leste is treated as a current-data-catalogue page because the Ministry exposes 2025 EMIS datasets but the retrieved publication pages do not expose the underlying totals in readable web text.

Student dataset
Available
By level, school type and gender 路 2025
Gross enrolment dataset
Available
By school level, type and gender 路 2025
School-count dataset
Available
Basic and secondary schools 路 2025
Teacher dataset
Available
By level, type and gender 路 2025

* Reference years and benchmark labels are shown with the figures.

How the education pathway works

The stage map follows the Ministry's pre-school, basic, secondary and later education structure.

StageWhenWhat it means
Pre-school educationEarly yearsPre-school precedes basic education in the national system.
Basic educationBasic educationBasic education forms the core school sequence.
General and technical-vocationalSecondarySecondary study includes general and technical-vocational routes.
Post-secondary and tertiaryFurther studyFurther technical and higher-education pathways follow school.

Key evidence

The four cards describe verified 2025 data availability, not invented enrolment or staff totals.

MeasureValueYearScope
Student datasetAvailable2025By level, school type and gender
Gross enrolment datasetAvailable2025By school level, type and gender
School-count datasetAvailable2025Basic and secondary schools
Teacher datasetAvailable2025By level, type and gender

* Reference years and benchmark labels are shown with the figures.

How to read the Timor-Leste evidence

The Ministry warns that EMIS figures can be revised when errors are corrected, so this page does not freeze unseen values from downloadable tables.

Historical series are available back to 2011 for many indicators, but the page points readers to the current 2025 releases.

Frequently asked questions

Does Timor-Leste publish a 2025 national student dataset?

Yes. The Ministry's EMIS page lists 2025 student data by education level, school type and gender.

Is a 2025 gross enrolment dataset available?

Yes. The Ministry lists 2025 GER tables by school level, type and gender.

Does the Ministry publish a 2025 school-count dataset?

Yes. A 2025 table covers actual numbers of basic and secondary schools.

Is 2025 teacher data available?

Yes. The EMIS catalogue lists 2025 teacher data by school level, type and gender.

Sources and methodology

All visible sources are Timor-Leste Ministry of Education EMIS publication pages.

Methodology: Timor-Leste reports only verified dataset availability where the retrieved source does not expose claim-level numeric totals.