Italy - Primary education, teachers

The value for Primary education, teachers in Italy was 251,885 as of 2019. As the graph below shows, over the past 48 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 281,311 in 1984 and a minimum value of 224,646 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 224,646
1972 229,991
1973 236,691
1974 245,628
1975 250,523
1976 255,267
1977 271,307
1978 271,747
1979 269,279
1980 275,199
1981 273,744
1982 279,082
1983 276,716
1984 281,311
1985 276,553
1986 273,800
1987 267,065
1988 263,101
1989 258,535
1990 257,961
1991 265,553
1992 255,429
1993 251,621
1994 279,604
1995 256,756
1996 251,827
1998 258,929
1999 253,736
2000 258,827
2001 262,675
2002 263,421
2003 256,650
2004 260,769
2005 264,061
2006 264,378
2007 273,113
2013 237,735
2014 237,214
2015 237,483
2016 254,572
2017 252,806
2018 252,933
2019 251,885

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