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A report from the United Nations (UN) says the world another 69 million teachers by the year 2030. The UN agency UNESCO a promise in 2015 that every child in the world is to a primary and secondary education within the next 14 years. The agency says a lot of work needs to be to the number of teachers for schools. The biggest numbers of teachers needed in sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia. UNESCO says there needs to a huge effort to get the 69 million teachers. At the moment, UNESCO says there are "massive shortages" of teachers around the world. There currently 263 million children who do not to school. Around 25 million of these might never an education.

The UN report that there shortages of teachers in countries with rising populations. This it harder to enough teachers as there more and more children being born. The report says: "Without urgent and sustained action, the situation will in the face of rising demand for education." UNESCO is also worried about the quality of teachers in some countries. In countries like Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, fewer than 60 per cent of teachers in primary school have trained. There also worries about class sizes. The UN says: "In countries like Malawi, it is common to over 100 children in classes….This has a persistent problem for many years."