Primary education, teachers - Country Ranking - Central America & the Caribbean

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

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

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Rank Country Value Year
1 Guatemala 115,969.00 2020
2 Cuba 84,629.00 2020
3 Dominican Republic 65,041.14 2020
4 Haiti 44,472.00 1998
5 Costa Rica 43,093.00 2020
6 Honduras 37,626.00 2020
7 Nicaragua 30,571.00 2010
8 El Salvador 24,642.00 2018
9 Panama 19,072.00 2017
10 Puerto Rico 14,453.00 2018
11 Jamaica 11,292.00 2020
12 Trinidad and Tobago 7,447.00 2009
13 Belize 2,598.00 2020
14 The Bahamas 1,517.00 2018
15 Barbados 1,476.00 2020
16 St. Lucia 1,077.00 2020
17 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 917.00 2018
18 Antigua and Barbuda 816.00 2018
19 Grenada 807.00 2018
20 Dominica 520.00 2020
21 St. Kitts and Nevis 393.00 2016
22 Cayman Islands 346.90 2020

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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