Ghana - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Ghana was 185,715 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 185,715 in 2020 and a minimum value of 33,752 in 1974.

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
1974 33,752
1975 35,334
1976 38,381
1977 41,407
1978 45,119
1979 48,397
1980 48,146
1981 47,921
1982 50,685
1983 51,109
1984 51,691
1985 56,100
1986 64,795
1987 65,748
1988 66,147
1989 65,826
1990 62,859
1991 66,946
1992 72,451
1993 67,760
1994 69,232
1995 71,863
1996 67,021
1997 71,340
1999 80,323
2000 75,799
2001 75,087
2002 80,552
2003 81,459
2004 82,833
2005 89,278
2006 88,461
2007 105,257
2008 112,443
2009 110,508
2010 121,304
2011 124,359
2012 123,153
2013 129,599
2014 136,878
2015 138,928
2016 142,520
2017 160,939
2018 161,538
2019 168,546
2020 185,715

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