Ghana - Secondary education, teachers

The value for Secondary education, teachers in Ghana was 207,972 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 46 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 207,972 in 2020 and a minimum value of 21,841 in 1974.

Definition: Secondary education teachers includes full-time and part-time teachers.

Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics (http://uis.unesco.org/)

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Year Value
1974 21,841
1975 22,759
1976 25,142
1977 27,054
1978 29,409
1979 31,812
1980 31,530
1981 31,636
1982 32,258
1983 35,045
1984 36,135
1985 34,871
1986 37,290
1987 46,452
1988 53,514
1989 45,429
1990 45,597
1999 52,208
2000 55,217
2001 55,549
2002 59,075
2003 65,976
2004 67,946
2005 72,879
2006 83,737
2007 91,487
2008 99,001
2009 99,154
2010 112,252
2011 115,086
2012 124,436
2013 134,438
2014 143,254
2015 146,847
2016 147,969
2017 163,123
2018 167,150
2019 187,914
2020 207,972

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