Pacific island small states - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Pacific island small states was 16,426 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 16,426 in 2019 and a minimum value of 9,554 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 9,554
1971 9,788
1972 10,260
1973 10,085
1974 10,209
1975 10,437
1976 10,513
1977 10,562
1978 10,760
1979 10,794
1980 10,847
1981 10,799
1982 11,062
1983 11,339
1984 11,582
1985 11,582
1986 12,083
1987 12,296
1988 12,450
1989 12,659
1990 12,768
1991 12,814
1992 12,976
1993 13,125
1994 13,404
1995 13,837
1996 13,677
1997 14,020
1998 13,986
1999 13,508
2000 12,980
2001 13,389
2002 13,527
2003 13,657
2004 13,941
2005 13,829
2006 13,823
2007 13,620
2008 13,896
2009 13,815
2010 14,026
2011 14,024
2012 14,556
2013 14,490
2014 14,909
2015 14,137
2016 14,626
2017 15,107
2018 15,606
2019 16,426

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