Portugal - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Portugal was 51,126 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 76,444 in 1994 and a minimum value of 44,231 in 1973.

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
1973 44,231
1974 48,352
1975 55,046
1976 59,485
1977 62,647
1978 63,808
1979 65,124
1980 68,401
1981 68,746
1982 67,452
1983 68,188
1984 69,048
1985 74,903
1986 73,343
1987 75,456
1990 72,593
1991 72,140
1992 71,105
1993 72,131
1994 76,444
2000 61,258
2001 61,908
2002 69,578
2003 69,109
2004 65,548
2005 71,519
2006 70,795
2007 64,274
2008 66,956
2009 66,106
2010 67,734
2011 64,929
2012 59,955
2013 54,222
2014 50,276
2015 49,355
2016 50,001
2017 50,982
2018 51,382
2019 51,126

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