Lao PDR - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Lao PDR was 34,743 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 36,204 in 2017 and a minimum value of 6,796 in 1971.

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
1971 6,796
1972 7,038
1973 7,340
1976 11,848
1977 13,898
1978 14,218
1979 14,416
1980 14,983
1981 16,109
1982 16,130
1983 16,454
1984 17,789
1985 18,070
1986 21,033
1988 20,384
1990 19,970
1991 21,039
1992 21,036
1993 21,652
1994 22,649
1995 23,455
1996 24,455
1997 25,831
1998 26,382
1999 27,083
2000 27,592
2001 27,665
2002 28,545
2003 28,571
2004 28,150
2005 28,299
2006 28,741
2007 29,604
2008 29,541
2009 31,176
2010 31,782
2011 33,576
2012 32,586
2013 34,311
2014 34,619
2015 35,206
2016 36,069
2017 36,204
2018 35,199
2019 35,891
2020 34,743

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