Latvia - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Latvia was 10,563 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 38 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 10,989 in 2007 and a minimum value of 6,699 in 2006.

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
1981 7,102
1982 7,142
1983 7,142
1984 7,283
1985 7,507
1986 7,788
1987 8,236
1988 8,592
1989 9,181
1990 9,309
1991 9,475
1992 9,468
1993 9,889
1994 9,329
1995 10,056
1996 10,357
1997 10,883
1998 9,489
1999 9,191
2000 8,935
2001 8,379
2002 7,942
2003 7,544
2004 7,124
2005 6,915
2006 6,699
2007 10,989
2008 10,541
2009 10,934
2010 9,566
2011 9,959
2012 10,296
2013 10,221
2014 10,338
2015 10,537
2016 10,619
2017 10,532
2018 10,622
2019 10,563

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