Tanzania - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Tanzania was 194,736 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 50 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 206,829 in 2016 and a minimum value of 18,313 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 18,313
1971 20,094
1972 22,360
1973 24,168
1974 25,688
1975 29,735
1976 39,245
1977 45,330
1978 64,822
1979 77,329
1981 81,659
1982 88,370
1983 89,819
1984 91,359
1985 92,586
1986 94,928
1987 95,503
1988 95,989
1989 98,392
1990 96,850
1991 98,174
1992 101,306
1993 101,816
1994 103,900
1995 105,280
1996 108,874
1997 109,936
1998 106,329
1999 104,006
2001 106,142
2002 112,860
2003 115,340
2004 121,548
2005 135,013
2006 151,882
2007 156,664
2008 164,668
2009 157,185
2010 165,856
2012 180,987
2013 189,487
2014 190,957
2016 206,829
2017 197,563
2018 199,705
2019 196,437
2020 194,736

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