Germany - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Germany was 250,559 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 252,845 in 2011 and a minimum value of 213,489 in 1995.

Definition: Primary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1993 215,414
1994 224,299
1995 213,489
1996 223,235
1997 224,517
1998 221,634
1999 221,318
2000 239,206
2001 238,345
2002 235,993
2003 235,179
2004 232,937
2005 234,107
2006 238,428
2007 242,969
2008 239,761
2009 242,329
2010 241,845
2011 252,845
2012 250,704
2013 249,603
2014 232,750
2015 235,571
2016 238,361
2017 240,170
2018 244,874
2019 250,559

Development Relevance: Women teachers are important as they serve as role models to girls and help to attract and retain girls in school.

Other Notes: Data retrieved via API in March 2019. For detailed information on the observation level (e.g. National Estimation, UIS Estimation, or Category not applicable), please visit UIS.Stat (http://data.uis.unesco.org/).

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Teachers refer to persons employed full-time or part-time in an official capacity to guide and direct the learning experience of pupils and students, irrespective of their qualifications or the delivery mechanism, i.e. face-to-face and/or at a distance. This definition excludes educational personnel who have no active teaching duties (e.g. headmasters, headmistresses or principals who do not teach) or who work occasionally or in a voluntary capacity in educational institutions. Data on education are collected by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics from official responses to its annual education survey. All the data are mapped to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) to ensure the comparability of education programs at the international level. The current version was formally adopted by UNESCO Member States in 2011. The reference years reflect the school year for which the data are presented. In some countries the school year spans two calendar years (for example, from September 2010 to June 2011); in these cases the reference year refers to the year in which the school year ended (2011 in the example).

Aggregation method: Sum

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Education Indicators

Sub-Topic: Inputs