Thailand - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Thailand was 412,997 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 412,997 in 2020 and a minimum value of 162,512 in 1971.

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
1971 162,512
1974 212,114
1975 217,015
1976 239,128
1977 225,387
1978 240,844
1983 357,800
1984 367,483
1985 371,341
1987 356,844
1988 349,210
1989 346,364
1990 345,016
1991 314,684
1992 343,063
1993 341,122
1994 320,124
1996 316,566
1998 316,645
1999 297,588
2000 293,391
2001 315,565
2002 326,272
2006 319,916
2007 321,930
2008 347,959
2010 316,552
2011 319,568
2012 307,446
2014 336,676
2015 300,968
2016 303,969
2017 293,265
2019 378,131
2020 412,997

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