Lower middle income - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Lower middle income was 12,830,170 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 13,043,300 in 2016 and a minimum value of 3,519,938 in 1970.

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 3,519,938
1971 3,620,539
1972 3,743,549
1973 3,851,855
1974 3,969,523
1975 4,138,933
1976 4,247,829
1977 4,355,681
1978 4,505,043
1979 4,678,545
1980 4,873,306
1981 5,090,918
1982 5,364,482
1983 5,782,520
1984 6,057,917
1985 6,221,625
1986 6,397,849
1987 6,428,671
1988 6,655,080
1989 7,033,710
1990 7,031,148
1991 7,212,022
1992 7,385,413
1993 7,643,117
1994 7,822,664
1995 7,913,768
1996 8,042,179
1997 8,225,277
1998 8,331,202
1999 8,465,429
2000 8,565,143
2001 8,639,507
2002 8,779,746
2003 9,211,738
2004 9,395,809
2005 9,549,160
2006 9,724,746
2007 9,906,181
2008 9,956,299
2009 10,268,120
2010 10,620,000
2011 11,091,680
2012 11,256,920
2013 12,295,280
2014 12,363,860
2015 12,601,300
2016 13,043,300
2017 12,728,830
2018 12,456,090
2019 12,830,170

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