Upper middle income - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Upper middle income was 11,303,690 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 49 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 11,303,690 in 2019 and a minimum value of 5,834,856 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 5,834,856
1971 6,025,401
1972 6,561,206
1973 6,929,737
1974 7,263,694
1975 7,550,908
1976 7,860,513
1977 7,998,059
1978 8,013,263
1979 8,144,364
1980 8,406,410
1981 8,613,120
1982 8,803,532
1983 8,801,250
1984 8,822,443
1985 8,819,307
1986 9,035,450
1987 9,004,442
1988 9,123,125
1989 9,300,486
1990 9,465,324
1991 9,481,632
1992 9,524,045
1993 9,588,300
1994 9,670,766
1995 9,936,590
1996 10,042,790
1997 9,998,914
1998 10,116,150
1999 10,029,130
2000 10,183,170
2001 10,201,100
2002 9,946,283
2003 10,242,060
2004 10,552,220
2005 10,563,370
2006 10,451,980
2007 10,558,790
2008 10,583,450
2009 10,567,830
2010 10,581,030
2011 10,527,890
2012 10,516,600
2013 10,537,660
2014 10,592,710
2015 10,641,370
2016 10,691,600
2017 10,809,880
2018 11,050,000
2019 11,303,690

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