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Teacher stress and burnout statistics worldwide

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❝How many teachers say they experience stress a lot in school systems on every continent, how often teaching harms their mental health, what teachers find most stressful, and how stress links to plans to leave the profession. Every figure says who was asked and when.❞

Updated October 2026

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Teaching is demanding work, and many teachers say they experience stress a lot in their work. The key figures below show how many, from the OECD's international survey of teachers 1 and from national surveys in the United States and England. Stress that goes on for months can wear down sleep, mood and health, and it is a common reason teachers give for wanting to leave.

The largest international survey of teachers is the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), run by the OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, an international organisation of mostly high-income countries. In its latest round it asked lower secondary teachers, who teach the first years of secondary school, in more than fifty school systems the same questions. Other figures below come from national surveys and local studies, which used different questions and screening tools. Each figure names the people it covers and the year.

Key figures

  • On average across OECD school systems in TALIS, 19% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 1
  • In 2026, RAND's State of the American Teacher Survey found that 55% of elementary and secondary public school teachers in the United States reported frequent job-related stress. That was well above the share among similar working adults in a companion survey. (survey, at one point in time, 2026 data) 2
  • In a 2025 Department for Education survey in England, 89% of teachers and leaders considering leaving state schools within a year cited stress or poor wellbeing, including poor work-life balance. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 3

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Stress across school systems

In TALIS, teachers said how much stress they experience in their work. The stress-level figures below give the share who answered a lot, the strongest answer; each stressor figure states its own threshold. The list follows region, not rank.

CountryFindingStudy typeYearSource
South AfricaIn South Africa, 30% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20241
MoroccoIn Morocco, 13% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20244
BrazilIn Brazil, 21% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20245
ChileIn Chile, 27% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20246
JapanIn Japan, 27% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20247
South KoreaIn South Korea, 16% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20248
SingaporeIn Singapore, 27% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20249
Saudi ArabiaIn Saudi Arabia, 7% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202410
United Arab EmiratesIn the United Arab Emirates, 21% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202411
TürkiyeIn Türkiye, 8% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202412
AustraliaIn Australia, 34% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202413
New ZealandIn New Zealand, 33% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work; response fell short of survey standards, so treat the estimate with caution.Survey, at one point in time202414
United StatesIn the United States, 30% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202415
Alberta (province only)In Alberta, Canada, 42% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work; response fell short of survey standards, so treat the estimate with caution.Survey, at one point in time202416
FranceIn France, 18% of lower secondary teachers said they experience stress a lot in their work in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202417

Teachers' mental health

Some teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot. The figures describe how common symptoms were among the teachers sampled. They do not show that work caused them. Most have no comparison with other adults in the same place. Local studies that screened teachers for depression, distress or burnout found large shares screening positive in many places, though their tools and samples differ.

Burnout is exhaustion and detachment from work that builds up when job stress goes on without relief. A cut-off is the score on a questionnaire at which a person counts as likely to have a condition. A person who scores at or above it has screened positive. It is not a diagnosis. A meta-analysis, or pooled estimate, combines the results of many studies into one figure.

  • In South Africa, 17% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 1
  • In Brazil, 16% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 5
  • In Japan, 14% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 7
  • In Australia, 15% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 13
  • In Morocco, 8% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 4
  • In the United Arab Emirates, 12% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 11
  • In Türkiye, 6% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 12
  • In South Korea, 12% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 8
  • In Singapore, 10% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 9
  • In France, 13% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 17
  • In the United States, 13% of lower secondary teachers said their job harms their mental health a lot, in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 15
  • Among teachers surveyed in Tshwane, South Africa, 50.3% screened positive for at least mild depressive symptoms, most of them mild. (survey, at one point in time, published 2026, fieldwork year not stated) 18
  • Among primary and secondary school teachers sampled in Dongguan, China, 34.7% had symptoms of depression. (survey, at one point in time, 2023 data) 19
  • Among schoolteachers and school administrators surveyed at middle and high schools in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 28.5% reported severe or extremely severe symptoms of depression. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 20
  • In the United Kingdom, 36% of education staff scored low enough on a wellbeing scale to fall in the range the survey's authors link with probable depression, in an online survey in 2025. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 21
  • Across three online studies, a pooled 19% of school and university teachers reported depression during the coronavirus pandemic. (pooled from prevalence studies, at one point in time, published 2021) 22
  • In Jimma, Ethiopia, 44.7% of public school teachers screened positive for depressive symptoms in 2020. (survey, at one point in time, 2020 data) 23
  • In Bangladesh, 35.4% of school, college and university teachers in an online survey had depression symptoms during the second pandemic wave in 2021. (survey, at one point in time, 2021 data) 24
  • In one ward of Kyoto City, Japan, 44% of nursery school teachers who responded to a survey had depressive symptoms, in a survey run from October 2017 to March 2018. (survey, at one point in time, 2017-2018 data) 25
  • In six schools in one district of Menoufiya governorate, Egypt, 23.2% of teachers scored as depressed on the Beck Depression Inventory, a standard depression questionnaire, in 2017. Scores were higher among women and primary teachers. (survey, at one point in time, 2017 data) 26
  • Among public primary school teachers surveyed in Nsukka, Nigeria, in 2019, 69.9% screened positive for psychological distress. (survey, at one point in time, 2019 data) 27
  • During the economic crisis in Sri Lanka in 2024, 30.4% of government school teachers surveyed online reported severe psychological distress. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 28
  • In a municipality in Nepal, 60.2% of public secondary school teachers had psychological distress on a screening questionnaire in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 29
  • Among public primary school teachers surveyed in Nsukka, Nigeria, in 2019, 36.0% met the study threshold for burnout. (survey, at one point in time, 2019 data) 27
  • Among kindergarten teachers in Dessie, Ethiopia, 39.7% reported work-related burnout over the past six months in 2024. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 30
  • Among primary and secondary school teachers sampled in Dongguan, China, 74.5% met the study criteria for burnout syndrome. (survey, at one point in time, 2023 data) 19
  • Among preschool and elementary school teachers surveyed in Nuevo León, Mexico, 23.4% had high or critical levels of burnout. (survey, at one point in time, published 2026, fieldwork year not stated) 31
  • Across nine studies from eight countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas, a pooled 52% of teachers met criteria for burnout during the coronavirus pandemic, though the estimate is uncertain. (pooled from prevalence studies, at one point in time, published 2023) 32
  • Among teachers working in conflict-affected South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Diffa and Zinder in Niger, 36.1% showed potential post-traumatic stress symptoms in the final survey round. (survey, at one point in time, 2021 data) 33
  • Among state school teachers surveyed in the Carapina regional education area of Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 2024, 20.0% were using psychotropic medication, medicines that act on mood or the mind, such as antidepressants. (survey, at one point in time, 2024 data) 34
  • Across six online studies, a pooled 17% of school and university teachers reported anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic. (pooled from prevalence studies, at one point in time, published 2021) 22
  • In the rural catchment area of a district in India, 61% of government school teachers in a small convenience sample had anxiety symptoms in 2023. A convenience sample takes teachers who are easy to reach rather than chosen at random. (survey, at one point in time, 2023 data) 35
  • In Hanoi, Vietnam, 42.4% of teachers at ten primary and secondary schools had anxiety symptoms in 2020, with similar shares at both school levels. (survey, at one point in time, 2020 data) 36
  • In a national online convenience survey in the United States, 75% of pre-school to grade twelve teachers said they frequently or almost always felt anxiety and stress. The period asked about ran from mid-March 2020 to the day each teacher completed the survey. (survey, 2020-2021 data) 37
  • In Scotland, 85% of education staff in an online survey said they felt stressed in 2025, a higher share than staff in England, Wales or Northern Ireland. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 21
  • In the United Kingdom, 75% of senior leaders in schools and colleges reported high stress at work in the previous week, in an online survey of education staff in 2025. (survey, past week, 2025 data) 21
  • In 2021, in eight of Poland's sixteen provinces, 48.5% of school principals in an online survey said the pandemic often or very often left them nervous and stressed at work. The question asked about the previous month. (survey, at one point in time, 2021 data) 38
  • In a rural district of India, 38% of government school teachers in a small convenience sample reported sleep disturbances in 2023. (survey, at one point in time, 2023 data) 35
  • In Tetouan, Morocco, 43% of experimental-science teachers at eight high schools showed high emotional exhaustion, one of the core dimensions of burnout, in 2021. (survey, at one point in time, 2021 data) 39

What teachers find stressful

Asked about sources of stress, teachers named working conditions such as marking, administrative work, classroom discipline and parents' concerns. The figures below show one source of stress for each country, not a ranking.

CountryFindingStudy typeYearSource
South AfricaIn South Africa, 72% of lower secondary teachers named having too much marking as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20241
MoroccoIn Morocco, 70% of lower secondary teachers named having too much marking as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20244
JapanIn Japan, 63% of lower secondary teachers named having too much administrative work as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20247
South KoreaIn South Korea, 57% of lower secondary teachers named addressing parent or guardian concerns as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20248
United StatesIn the United States, 43% of lower secondary teachers named maintaining classroom discipline as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202415
PortugalIn Portugal, 79% of lower secondary teachers named having too much administrative work as a source of stress quite a bit or a lot, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202440

Stress and leaving the profession

Stress is a common reason teachers in England give when considering leaving, as the Department for Education survey shows 3. The figures below show how many teachers under thirty intend to leave within five years, how many teachers of all ages plan to leave, and how many stay or leave in a year.

CountryFindingStudy typeYearSource
South AfricaIn South Africa, 18% of lower secondary teachers under age thirty said they intend to leave teaching within five years, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20241
ChileIn Chile, 24% of lower secondary teachers under age thirty said they intend to leave teaching within five years, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20246
SingaporeIn Singapore, 40% of lower secondary teachers under age thirty said they intend to leave teaching within five years, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time20249
Saudi ArabiaIn Saudi Arabia, 26% of lower secondary teachers under age thirty said they intend to leave teaching within five years, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202410
United StatesIn the United States, 29% of lower secondary teachers under age thirty said they intend to leave teaching within five years, in 2024.Survey, at one point in time202415
United StatesIn 2026, 18% of public school teachers in the United States said they were likely to leave their current job by the end of the school year.Survey, at one point in time20262
England (United Kingdom)In England, 29% of state school teachers and leaders were considering leaving the sector within the coming year for reasons other than retirement, in 2025.Survey, at one point in time20253
England (United Kingdom)In England, some state school teachers and leaders answered two yearly surveys. Of those who said in the first survey that they were considering leaving, 13% had left state school teaching by 2025.Survey, past 12 months20253
England (United Kingdom)In England, 89.7% of teachers who qualified in 2024 were still teaching in state-funded schools a year later.Administrative records202441
England (United Kingdom)In England, 8.5% of qualified teachers left state-funded schools during the school year that began in 2024, counted in full-time equivalents, where two half-time teachers count as one.Administrative records, past school year202441

Workload, support and sick leave

Workload, support from leaders, violence in school and sick leave all shape teachers' working lives. These figures come from national surveys, staff records and local studies, and each names its group.

  • In a nationally representative survey of kindergarten to grade twelve public school teachers in the United States in 2026, 59% of female teachers reported frequent job-related stress, above the share of male teachers. (survey, at one point in time, 2026 data) 2
  • In a nationally representative survey of kindergarten to grade twelve public school teachers in the United States in 2026, 44% of male teachers reported frequent job-related stress, below the share of female teachers. (survey, at one point in time, 2026 data) 2
  • In England, only 26% of state school teachers and leaders agreed in 2025 that their workload was acceptable. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 3
  • In the United Kingdom in 2025, 81% of senior school and college leaders in an online panel survey had too much to do in too little time, for three-quarters or more of the time. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 21
  • In the United Kingdom, 40% of education staff said their school or college does not support employees with mental health and wellbeing problems well, in an online survey in 2025. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 21
  • In England, 50% of state school teachers with teaching responsibilities said they always or mostly felt supported when dealing with disruptive pupil behaviour in 2025. (survey, at one point in time, 2025 data) 3
  • In England, 61.8% of teachers in state-funded schools took at least some sickness absence during the school year that began in 2024. (administrative records, past school year, 2024 data) 41
  • In the United States, 56% of pre-school to grade twelve teachers in a national online convenience survey said a student had been physically violent towards them during the school year ending in 2022. (survey, past school year, 2022 data) 37
  • In a nationally representative survey of kindergarten to grade twelve public school teachers in the United States in 2026, 52% named managing student behaviour as a source of job-related stress, the most cited source. (survey, at one point in time, 2026 data) 2

How to read these figures

The comparison between school systems rests on one survey programme, TALIS, run by the OECD, so each TALIS stress-level figure answers the same question in every school system.

TALIS asks lower secondary teachers only. Primary and upper secondary teachers may answer differently.

The TALIS stress-level figures give the share who said a lot, the strongest answer; each stressor figure states its own threshold. Many more teachers report some stress.

Local studies used different screening tools and samples, often from one city or region, so their figures do not compare directly with each other or with TALIS.

Screening tools flag likely symptoms. They are not diagnoses.

Teachers name working conditions such as marking and administrative work among the sources of their stress. Teachers' own answers point to what schools and education systems could change: workload, paperwork and support with behaviour. Our workplace stress and burnout statistics page covers stress across all kinds of work.

If your work has left you exhausted, anxious or low, talking to a psychologist or counsellor can help. Our guide on how to find the right therapist explains what to look for. If you are in distress right now, see our helplines and crisis lines worldwide.

Cite this page: TherapyRoute. Teacher stress and burnout statistics worldwide. https://www.therapyroute.com/article/teacher-stress-and-burnout-statistics-worldwide-by-therapyroute. Last updated 26 October 2026.

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