High income - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in High income was 5,495,270 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5,541,367 in 2017 and a minimum value of 4,393,904 in 1979.

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
1970 4,475,146
1971 4,476,853
1972 4,507,587
1973 4,531,981
1974 4,509,500
1975 4,486,705
1976 4,443,622
1977 4,428,858
1978 4,413,951
1979 4,393,904
1980 4,531,890
1981 4,510,142
1982 4,532,168
1983 4,502,399
1984 4,485,313
1985 4,483,195
1986 4,502,167
1987 4,487,186
1988 4,511,724
1989 4,552,041
1990 4,600,596
1991 4,635,233
1992 4,651,859
1993 4,691,758
1994 4,778,795
1995 4,785,829
1996 4,823,251
1997 4,849,941
1998 4,847,783
1999 4,909,538
2000 4,997,572
2001 5,044,252
2002 5,052,359
2003 5,071,636
2004 5,127,728
2005 5,179,354
2006 5,217,327
2007 5,284,106
2008 5,337,115
2009 5,321,894
2010 5,352,080
2011 5,369,885
2012 5,340,211
2013 5,348,594
2014 5,368,956
2015 5,422,738
2016 5,497,540
2017 5,541,367
2018 5,528,935
2019 5,495,270

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