Belgium - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Belgium was 73,859 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 73,859 in 2019 and a minimum value of 40,894 in 1984.

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 51,692
1974 50,312
1976 48,625
1977 48,038
1978 46,484
1979 46,227
1980 44,212
1981 46,430
1982 45,130
1984 40,894
1985 43,958
1986 44,190
1993 59,830
1994 60,738
2005 64,278
2008 65,574
2009 65,668
2010 66,317
2011 65,783
2012 66,441
2013 68,576
2014 68,826
2015 69,681
2016 70,530
2017 72,269
2018 73,029
2019 73,859

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